New England division
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The New England division is a U.S. Census Bureau region comprising the northeasternmost states of the United States, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New England Division | 2 |
| New England division canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10986135 — 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: New England division Context triple: [South Atlantic division, hasNeighborCensusDivision, New England division]
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A.
Northeastern Division
The Northeastern Division is a regional judicial subdivision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that handles federal cases arising from the northeastern portion of the district.
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B.
Northeast Division
The Northeast Division was a former National Hockey League division that grouped several teams from the northeastern United States and Canada before league realignment.
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C.
Middle Atlantic division
The Middle Atlantic division is a U.S. Census Bureau region that typically includes states like New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, forming a key part of the Northeastern United States.
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D.
AFL East Division
AFL East Division was a former division of the Arena Football League that grouped together teams from the eastern United States for regular-season competition.
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E.
Eastern Division
The Eastern Division is a competitive grouping within the Arena Football League that includes teams such as the Albany Firebirds.
- 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: New England division Target entity description: The New England division is a U.S. Census Bureau region comprising the northeasternmost states of the United States, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
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A.
Northeastern Division
The Northeastern Division is a regional judicial subdivision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee that handles federal cases arising from the northeastern portion of the district.
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B.
Northeast Division
The Northeast Division was a former National Hockey League division that grouped several teams from the northeastern United States and Canada before league realignment.
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C.
Middle Atlantic division
The Middle Atlantic division is a U.S. Census Bureau region that typically includes states like New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, forming a key part of the Northeastern United States.
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D.
AFL East Division
AFL East Division was a former division of the Arena Football League that grouped together teams from the eastern United States for regular-season competition.
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E.
Eastern Division
The Eastern Division is a competitive grouping within the Arena Football League that includes teams such as the Albany Firebirds.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Census Bureau region
ⓘ
U.S. Census Bureau division ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Atlantic Ocean
ⓘ
Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersRegion | Middle Atlantic division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Connecticut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasAbbreviation | Division 1 ⓘ |
| hasCensusRegion | Northeast ⓘ |
| hasCoastlineOn | Atlantic Ocean ⓘ |
| hasLargestStateByPopulation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfStates | 6 ⓘ |
| hasPrincipalMetropolitanArea | Greater Boston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | 01 ⓘ |
| hasSmallestStateByArea | Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStateWithLargestLandArea | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New England
ⓘ
Northeastern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Census Bureau Region 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Census Bureau regions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | Northeast Census Region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Census Bureau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
data presentation
ⓘ
statistical analysis ⓘ |
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: New England division Description of subject: The New England division is a U.S. Census Bureau region comprising the northeasternmost states of the United States, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
New England Division
subject surface form:
Northeast Region
this entity surface form:
New England Division