Maine Board of Corrections
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The Maine Board of Corrections is a state oversight body that helps coordinate, regulate, and improve correctional and jail operations across Maine’s counties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maine Board of Corrections canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8807959 — 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: Maine Board of Corrections Context triple: [Maine Department of Corrections, collaboratesWith, Maine Board of Corrections]
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A.
Maine Department of Corrections
The Maine Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, probation, and parole services throughout Maine.
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B.
Maine State Prison (historic location)
Maine State Prison (historic location) was a long-standing maximum-security correctional facility in Thomaston, Maine, that operated from the early 19th century until its closure and replacement by a new prison in Warren.
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C.
Massachusetts Department of Correction
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing and managing adult correctional facilities and prison operations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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D.
Maine Department of Public Safety
The Maine Department of Public Safety is the state-level agency responsible for coordinating law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services across Maine.
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E.
Maine Bureau of General Services
The Maine Bureau of General Services is a state agency responsible for managing and maintaining government facilities and related support services in Maine.
- 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: Maine Board of Corrections Target entity description: The Maine Board of Corrections is a state oversight body that helps coordinate, regulate, and improve correctional and jail operations across Maine’s counties.
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A.
Maine Department of Corrections
The Maine Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, probation, and parole services throughout Maine.
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B.
Maine State Prison (historic location)
Maine State Prison (historic location) was a long-standing maximum-security correctional facility in Thomaston, Maine, that operated from the early 19th century until its closure and replacement by a new prison in Warren.
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C.
Massachusetts Department of Correction
The Massachusetts Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing and managing adult correctional facilities and prison operations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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D.
Maine Department of Public Safety
The Maine Department of Public Safety is the state-level agency responsible for coordinating law enforcement, emergency response, and public safety services across Maine.
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E.
Maine Bureau of General Services
The Maine Bureau of General Services is a state agency responsible for managing and maintaining government facilities and related support services in Maine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state corrections oversight body ⓘ |
| aim |
enhance efficiency of correctional services
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improve safety and conditions in correctional facilities ⓘ promote consistency in jail operations across counties ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
correctional facilities in Maine
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county jails in Maine ⓘ |
| coordinatesWith |
county governments in Maine
ⓘ
local sheriffs’ offices in Maine ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| function |
oversight of county correctional systems
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policy coordination for jails and corrections ⓘ standard-setting for correctional operations ⓘ |
| governs | county-level correctional practices ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| levelOfGovernment | state ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates | county jail administration ⓘ |
| role |
coordinate correctional operations across Maine’s counties
ⓘ
improve correctional and jail operations in Maine ⓘ regulate county jail operations in Maine ⓘ |
| sector |
corrections
ⓘ
criminal justice ⓘ |
| supervises | county jail systems in Maine ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | oversight board ⓘ |
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: Maine Board of Corrections Description of subject: The Maine Board of Corrections is a state oversight body that helps coordinate, regulate, and improve correctional and jail operations across Maine’s counties.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.