Orono, Maine

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Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Orono, Maine canonical 11
Orono 4
Town of Orono, Maine 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
town
areaCode 207
borders Bangor, Maine
Bradley, Maine
Glenburn, Maine
Hudson, Maine
Old Town, Maine
Veazie, Maine
climate humid continental climate
country United States of America
county Penobscot County, Maine
elevation approximately 115 ft
FIPSCode 23-55565
GNISFeatureID 0582640
governmentType council–manager government
hasElementarySchool Asa C. Adams Elementary School
hasHighSchool Orono High School
hasInstitution Orono Public Library
hasMiddleSchool Orono Middle School
hasRiver Stillwater River
hasSportsVenue Alfond Arena
Alfond Stadium
Cross Insurance Center (nearby in Bangor)
hasTransportation Community Connector bus service
Cyr Bus Line service
hasUniversity University of Maine
incorporatedAsTown 1806
isHomeOf University of Maine
knownFor being a college town
hosting the University of Maine’s flagship campus
locatedIn New England
locatedNear Bangor, Maine
locatedOn Marsh Island
Penobscot River
majorEconomicSector higher education
research and development
namedAfter Joseph Orono
namedFor Penobscot Indian Chief Joseph Orono
nearestMajorAirport Bangor International Airport
observesDaylightSavingTime true
partOf Bangor metropolitan area
postalCode 04469
04473
region Penobscot Valley
settled late 18th century
state Maine
timeZone Eastern Time Zone
universityCampusType flagship campus of the University of Maine System

How these facts were elicited

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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: Orono, Maine
Description of subject: Orono, Maine is a small town in Penobscot County best known as the home of the University of Maine’s flagship campus.

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bangor metropolitan area contains Orono, Maine
Penobscot County, Maine hasTown Orono, Maine
University of Maine locatedIn Orono, Maine
eastern Maine containsTown Orono, Maine
subject surface form: Eastern Maine
Old Town, Maine adjacentTo Orono, Maine
Veazie, Maine adjacentTo Orono, Maine
Collins Center for the Arts city Orono, Maine
this entity surface form: Orono
Alfond Arena city Orono, Maine
this entity surface form: Orono
Black Bears city Orono, Maine
Alfond Stadium locatedIn Orono, Maine
College of Engineering locatedIn Orono, Maine
subject surface form: College of Engineering (University of Maine)
Penobscot Indian Chief Joseph Orono hasFamilyName Orono, Maine
subject surface form: Joseph Orono
this entity surface form: Orono
Penobscot Indian Chief Joseph Orono commemoratedBy Orono, Maine
subject surface form: Joseph Orono
this entity surface form: town of Orono, Maine
Orono Public Library ownedBy Orono, Maine
this entity surface form: Town of Orono, Maine
Orono Public Library operatedBy Orono, Maine
this entity surface form: Town of Orono, Maine
Penobscot Valley hasTown Orono, Maine
this entity surface form: Orono