Brewer, Maine
E38790
Brewer, Maine is a small city in Penobscot County located across the Penobscot River from Bangor and functioning as part of the Bangor metropolitan area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brewer, Maine canonical | 15 |
| Brewer | 1 |
| Brewer, Maine, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T250293 — 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: Brewer, Maine Context triple: [Interstate 395 (Bangor, Maine), servesCity, Brewer, Maine]
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A.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine is a small city in eastern Maine known as a regional commercial and cultural hub and famously associated with author Stephen King.
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B.
Bethel, Maine
Bethel, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its outdoor recreation, proximity to the White Mountains, and role as a gateway to nearby ski areas like Sunday River.
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C.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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D.
Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan, Maine is a small town in central Maine known as the seat of Somerset County and for its historic downtown along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Farmington, Maine
Farmington, Maine is a small town in western Maine that serves as the service and cultural center of Franklin County and is home to the University of Maine at Farmington.
- 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: Brewer, Maine Target entity description: Brewer, Maine is a small city in Penobscot County located across the Penobscot River from Bangor and functioning as part of the Bangor metropolitan area.
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A.
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine is a small city in eastern Maine known as a regional commercial and cultural hub and famously associated with author Stephen King.
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B.
Bethel, Maine
Bethel, Maine is a small town in western Maine known for its outdoor recreation, proximity to the White Mountains, and role as a gateway to nearby ski areas like Sunday River.
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C.
Lovell, Maine
Lovell, Maine is a small rural town in Oxford County known for its scenic lakes and mountains in western Maine.
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D.
Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan, Maine is a small town in central Maine known as the seat of Somerset County and for its historic downtown along the Kennebec River.
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E.
Farmington, Maine
Farmington, Maine is a small town in western Maine that serves as the service and cultural center of Franklin County and is home to the University of Maine at Farmington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Brewer, Maine Description of subject: Brewer, Maine is a small city in Penobscot County located across the Penobscot River from Bangor and functioning as part of the Bangor metropolitan area.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Interstate 395 (Bangor, Maine)
subject surface form:
Eastern Maine
this entity surface form:
Brewer, Maine, United States
subject surface form:
Brewer family
subject surface form:
Brewer family
subject surface form:
US 1A (Maine)
this entity surface form:
Brewer