Maui County
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Maui County is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii that encompasses the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi (except Kalaupapa), Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, and several smaller islets, with Wailuku as its county seat.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maui County canonical | 64 |
| Maui County, Hawaii | 20 |
| County of Maui | 12 |
| Maui County government | 10 |
| Kalawao County | 1 |
| Maui County Council | 1 |
| Maui County Council district | 1 |
| Maui County courts | 1 |
| Maui County offices | 1 |
| Maui County, Hawaiʻi | 1 |
| Maui County, State of Hawaii | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T291736 — 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: Maui County Context triple: [Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii, United States, county, Maui County]
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A.
Honolulu County
Honolulu County is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii that encompasses the island of Oʻahu, including the city of Honolulu and its surrounding communities.
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B.
Maui
Maui is a major Hawaiian island renowned for its scenic beaches, volcanic landscapes, and rich native Hawaiian culture.
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C.
Lānaʻi
Lānaʻi is one of the smaller inhabited Hawaiian Islands, known for its quiet, rural character and luxury resort tourism.
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D.
Aiea
Aiea is a residential community on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, located inland from Honolulu and known for its proximity to Pearl Harbor and historic World War II sites.
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E.
Līhuʻe
Līhuʻe is the principal town and administrative center of Kauai County on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
- 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: Maui County Target entity description: Maui County is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii that encompasses the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi (except Kalaupapa), Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, and several smaller islets, with Wailuku as its county seat.
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A.
Honolulu County
Honolulu County is a consolidated city-county in the U.S. state of Hawaii that encompasses the island of Oʻahu, including the city of Honolulu and its surrounding communities.
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B.
Maui
Maui is a major Hawaiian island renowned for its scenic beaches, volcanic landscapes, and rich native Hawaiian culture.
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C.
Lānaʻi
Lānaʻi is one of the smaller inhabited Hawaiian Islands, known for its quiet, rural character and luxury resort tourism.
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D.
Aiea
Aiea is a residential community on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, located inland from Honolulu and known for its proximity to Pearl Harbor and historic World War II sites.
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E.
Līhuʻe
Līhuʻe is the principal town and administrative center of Kauai County on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Maui County Description of subject: Maui County is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaii that encompasses the islands of Maui, Molokaʻi (except Kalaupapa), Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, and several smaller islets, with Wailuku as its county seat.
Referenced by (113)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maui County, Hawaii
this entity surface form:
Maui County, Hawaii
this entity surface form:
County of Maui
this entity surface form:
Maui County, Hawaii
this entity surface form:
Maui County, State of Hawaii
this entity surface form:
Maui County, Hawaii