Houlton Agricultural Fair
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The Houlton Agricultural Fair is a traditional community fair in Houlton, Maine, featuring livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, midway rides, and family-oriented entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Houlton Agricultural Fair canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8787600 — 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: Houlton Agricultural Fair Context triple: [Houlton, Maine, hasCulturalEvent, Houlton Agricultural Fair]
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A.
Skowhegan State Fair
Skowhegan State Fair is one of the oldest continuously running agricultural fairs in the United States, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and entertainment in Skowhegan, Maine.
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B.
Bangor State Fair
Bangor State Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and entertainment fair featuring rides, games, livestock shows, and live performances in Bangor, Maine.
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C.
Fryeburg Fair
Fryeburg Fair is a large, historic agricultural fair in Maine featuring livestock shows, exhibitions, and traditional rural festivities.
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D.
Hopkinton State Fair
Hopkinton State Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and entertainment fair in New Hampshire featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and family-oriented events.
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E.
Farmington Fair
Farmington Fair is an annual agricultural fair in Farmington, Maine, featuring livestock shows, exhibitions, rides, and community events.
- 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: Houlton Agricultural Fair Target entity description: The Houlton Agricultural Fair is a traditional community fair in Houlton, Maine, featuring livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, midway rides, and family-oriented entertainment.
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A.
Skowhegan State Fair
Skowhegan State Fair is one of the oldest continuously running agricultural fairs in the United States, featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and entertainment in Skowhegan, Maine.
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B.
Bangor State Fair
Bangor State Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and entertainment fair featuring rides, games, livestock shows, and live performances in Bangor, Maine.
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C.
Fryeburg Fair
Fryeburg Fair is a large, historic agricultural fair in Maine featuring livestock shows, exhibitions, and traditional rural festivities.
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D.
Hopkinton State Fair
Hopkinton State Fair is a long-running annual agricultural and entertainment fair in New Hampshire featuring livestock shows, midway rides, competitions, and family-oriented events.
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E.
Farmington Fair
Farmington Fair is an annual agricultural fair in Farmington, Maine, featuring livestock shows, exhibitions, rides, and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural fair
ⓘ
annual event ⓘ community fair ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
rural life
ⓘ
youth agricultural education ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
4-H activities
ⓘ
animal judging ⓘ exhibit competitions ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
families
ⓘ
local community ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
carnival midway
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demolition derby ⓘ exhibit halls ⓘ food vendors ⓘ music performances ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
agricultural exhibits
ⓘ
family-oriented entertainment ⓘ livestock shows ⓘ midway rides ⓘ |
| hasTheme | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasType | nonprofit event ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Aroostook County, Maine
NERFINISHED
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Houlton, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| purpose |
promote local agriculture
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provide community entertainment ⓘ |
| recurs | annually ⓘ |
| typicalSeason | summer ⓘ |
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: Houlton Agricultural Fair Description of subject: The Houlton Agricultural Fair is a traditional community fair in Houlton, Maine, featuring livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, midway rides, and family-oriented entertainment.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.