Newport, Maine
E38851
Newport, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known as a regional service and transportation hub in central Maine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newport, Maine canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59509 — 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: Newport, Maine Context triple: [U.S. Route 2 in Maine, passesThrough, Newport, Maine]
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A.
Augusta, Maine
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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B.
Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
- 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: Newport, Maine Target entity description: Newport, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known as a regional service and transportation hub in central Maine.
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A.
Augusta, Maine
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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B.
Provincetown
Provincetown is a historic coastal resort town at the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts, known for its vibrant arts scene, LGBTQ+ community, and scenic beaches.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Yarmouth
Yarmouth is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its beaches, historic villages, and tourism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ |
| county | Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ |
| governmentType | New England town government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCounty | Penobscot County, Maine ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
downtown commercial district
ⓘ
lakeside recreation areas ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 04953 ⓘ |
| hasRegionRole |
regional service center
ⓘ
transportation hub ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | town ⓘ |
| hasState | Maine ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRoute |
Interstate 95
ⓘ
Maine State Route 100 ⓘ Maine State Route 11 ⓘ Maine State Route 7 ⓘ U.S. Route 2 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Bangor metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isRegionalHubFor |
services
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New England
ⓘ
central Maine ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Portland, Maine ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterBody | Sebasticook Lake ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Bangor, Maine ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Daylight Time
|
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: Newport, Maine Description of subject: Newport, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County known as a regional service and transportation hub in central Maine.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Maine