Marion, Massachusetts
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Marion, Massachusetts is a small coastal town in southeastern New England known for its historic village center, boating culture, and scenic Buzzards Bay shoreline.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marion, Massachusetts canonical | 6 |
| Marion, Massachusetts, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1756498 — 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: Marion, Massachusetts Context triple: [Plymouth County, contains, Marion, Massachusetts]
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A.
Marshfield, Massachusetts
Marshfield, Massachusetts is a coastal New England town known for its beaches, maritime character, and historic community south of Boston.
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B.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Marlborough, Massachusetts is a small city in eastern Massachusetts known for its suburban character, historic New England roots, and role as a regional commercial and technology hub.
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C.
Sagamore, Massachusetts
Sagamore, Massachusetts is a village in the town of Bourne on Cape Cod, known as a key gateway to the Cape due to its position at the Cape Cod Canal.
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D.
Wilmington, Massachusetts
Wilmington, Massachusetts is a suburban town in northeastern Massachusetts known for its residential neighborhoods, local parks, and commuter access to the Greater Boston area.
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E.
Holbrook, Massachusetts
Holbrook, Massachusetts is a small suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
- 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: Marion, Massachusetts Target entity description: Marion, Massachusetts is a small coastal town in southeastern New England known for its historic village center, boating culture, and scenic Buzzards Bay shoreline.
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A.
Marshfield, Massachusetts
Marshfield, Massachusetts is a coastal New England town known for its beaches, maritime character, and historic community south of Boston.
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B.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Marlborough, Massachusetts is a small city in eastern Massachusetts known for its suburban character, historic New England roots, and role as a regional commercial and technology hub.
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C.
Sagamore, Massachusetts
Sagamore, Massachusetts is a village in the town of Bourne on Cape Cod, known as a key gateway to the Cape due to its position at the Cape Cod Canal.
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D.
Wilmington, Massachusetts
Wilmington, Massachusetts is a suburban town in northeastern Massachusetts known for its residential neighborhoods, local parks, and commuter access to the Greater Boston area.
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E.
Holbrook, Massachusetts
Holbrook, Massachusetts is a small suburban town in eastern Massachusetts known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Buzzards Bay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochester, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ Wareham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode |
508
ⓘ
774 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| coast | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Plymouth County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | open town meeting ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater |
Aucoot Cove
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sippican Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ Weweantic River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Tabor Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
coastal wetlands
ⓘ
marinas ⓘ yacht clubs ⓘ |
| hasHarbor | Sippican Harbor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Marion village center historic area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
conservation land
ⓘ
recreational ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasRecreation |
beach activities
ⓘ
boating ⓘ fishing ⓘ sailing ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | local road network ⓘ |
| hasVillageCenter | historic village center ⓘ |
| isCoastalTown | true ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanArea | Greater New Bedford region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Tabor Academy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
boating culture ⓘ historic architecture ⓘ scenic shoreline ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Buzzards Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Town of Marion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | South Coast region of Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 02738 ⓘ |
| region |
New England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Southeastern Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Massachusetts ⓘ |
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: Marion, Massachusetts Description of subject: Marion, Massachusetts is a small coastal town in southeastern New England known for its historic village center, boating culture, and scenic Buzzards Bay shoreline.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marion, Massachusetts, United States