Portage Lake, Maine
E74531
Portage Lake, Maine is a small rural town in northern Aroostook County known for its scenic lake, outdoor recreation, and forested surroundings.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portage Lake (Maine) | 1 |
| Portage Lake (body of water) | 1 |
| Portage Lake, Maine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T536557 — 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: Portage Lake, Maine Context triple: [Aroostook County, Maine, hasTown, Portage Lake, Maine]
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A.
Sebasticook Lake
Sebasticook Lake is a freshwater lake in central Maine known for its recreational fishing, boating, and wildlife habitat near the town of Newport.
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B.
Eagle Lake, Maine
Eagle Lake, Maine is a small rural town in northern Aroostook County known for its scenic lake, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the North Maine Woods.
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C.
Woods Lake
Woods Lake is a scenic alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, popular for camping, fishing, and hiking in the Carson Pass area.
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D.
Great Sacandaga Lake
Great Sacandaga Lake is a large man-made reservoir in New York’s Adirondack region, popular for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
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E.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
- 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: Portage Lake, Maine Target entity description: Portage Lake, Maine is a small rural town in northern Aroostook County known for its scenic lake, outdoor recreation, and forested surroundings.
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A.
Sebasticook Lake
Sebasticook Lake is a freshwater lake in central Maine known for its recreational fishing, boating, and wildlife habitat near the town of Newport.
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B.
Eagle Lake, Maine
Eagle Lake, Maine is a small rural town in northern Aroostook County known for its scenic lake, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the North Maine Woods.
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C.
Woods Lake
Woods Lake is a scenic alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, popular for camping, fishing, and hiking in the Carson Pass area.
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D.
Great Sacandaga Lake
Great Sacandaga Lake is a large man-made reservoir in New York’s Adirondack region, popular for boating, fishing, and lakeside recreation.
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E.
Tioga Lake
Tioga Lake is a high-elevation alpine lake in the Sierra Nevada of California, just east of Yosemite National Park, known for its scenic mountain views and outdoor recreation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 207 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Aroostook County, Maine
ⓘ
surface form:
Aroostook County
|
| county | Aroostook County, Maine ⓘ |
| hasBodyOfWater |
Portage Lake, Maine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Portage Lake (Maine)
|
| hasCharacteristic |
rural
ⓘ
sparsely populated ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEnvironment |
forested
ⓘ
lake-centered landscape ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
forestry
ⓘ
recreation ⓘ |
| hasName | Portage Lake ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
outdoor recreation services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasScenery |
lakeshore forests
ⓘ
northern Maine woodlands ⓘ |
| isPopularFor |
camping
ⓘ
lakefront cottages ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| isSmallTown | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Portage Lake (the lake)
ⓘ
forested surroundings ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ scenic lake views ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aroostook County, Maine
ⓘ
Maine ⓘ New England ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Portage Lake, Maine
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Portage Lake (body of water)
|
| offersActivity |
boating
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ hunting ⓘ snowmobiling ⓘ |
| postalCode | 04768 ⓘ |
| region | Northern 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: Portage Lake, Maine Description of subject: Portage Lake, Maine is a small rural town in northern Aroostook County known for its scenic lake, outdoor recreation, and forested surroundings.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Portage Lake (body of water)
this entity surface form:
Portage Lake (Maine)