Augusta, Maine
E2670
Augusta, Maine is a small city in the northeastern United States known as the capital of the state of Maine and situated along the Kennebec River.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augusta, Maine canonical | 115 |
| Augusta, Maine, United States | 4 |
| Augusta | 3 |
| Augusta metropolitan area | 1 |
| Augusta micropolitan area | 1 |
| Augusta, Maine metropolitan area | 1 |
| Maine State Capitol area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16734 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augusta, Maine Context triple: [New England, capitalCityOfStateInRegion, Augusta, Maine]
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Portland, Maine, United States
Portland, Maine, United States is a historic coastal city in northern New England known for its working waterfront, vibrant arts and culinary scenes, and well-preserved 19th-century architecture.
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B.
Lunenburg
Lunenburg is a small town in north-central Massachusetts known for its residential character and proximity to commuter rail service into the Boston area.
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C.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts is a historic New England city and the capital of Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, prestigious universities, and cultural and economic influence.
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D.
Port of Boston
The Port of Boston is a major New England seaport and transportation hub handling cargo, cruise ships, and maritime commerce for the Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is a major Russian port city on the Baltic Sea, renowned for its imperial architecture, cultural heritage, and role as a historic capital of Russia.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augusta, Maine Target entity description: Augusta, Maine is a small city in the northeastern United States known as the capital of the state of Maine and situated along the Kennebec River.
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A.
Portland, Maine, United States
Portland, Maine, United States is a historic coastal city in northern New England known for its working waterfront, vibrant arts and culinary scenes, and well-preserved 19th-century architecture.
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B.
Lunenburg
Lunenburg is a small town in north-central Massachusetts known for its residential character and proximity to commuter rail service into the Boston area.
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C.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts is a historic New England city and the capital of Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in the American Revolution, prestigious universities, and cultural and economic influence.
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D.
Port of Boston
The Port of Boston is a major New England seaport and transportation hub handling cargo, cruise ships, and maritime commerce for the Boston metropolitan area.
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E.
Fairbanks
Fairbanks is a surname most famously associated with Douglas Fairbanks, a pioneering American silent film actor, producer, and one of the founders of United Artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Augusta, Maine Description of subject: Augusta, Maine is a small city in the northeastern United States known as the capital of the state of Maine and situated along the Kennebec River.
Referenced by (126)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Augusta, Maine, United States
this entity surface form:
Augusta, Maine, United States
this entity surface form:
Augusta, Maine metropolitan area