New Athens, Illinois, United States
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New Athens, Illinois, United States is a small village in St. Clair County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame baseball manager Whitey Herzog.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Athens, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12719271 — 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)
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Target entity: New Athens, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Whitey Herzog, birthPlace, New Athens, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Athens, Illinois
Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
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B.
Athens, Wisconsin, United States
Athens, Wisconsin, United States is a small rural village in Marathon County known for its agricultural community and location in north-central Wisconsin.
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C.
Ottawa, Illinois, United States
Ottawa, Illinois, United States, is a small city in northern Illinois known as the birthplace of acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick and for its historic role in the Lincoln–Douglas debates.
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D.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
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E.
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
- 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 Athens, Illinois, United States Target entity description: New Athens, Illinois, United States is a small village in St. Clair County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame baseball manager Whitey Herzog.
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A.
Athens, Illinois
Athens, Illinois is a small city in Menard County that functions as part of the greater Springfield, Illinois region.
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B.
Athens, Wisconsin, United States
Athens, Wisconsin, United States is a small rural village in Marathon County known for its agricultural community and location in north-central Wisconsin.
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C.
Ottawa, Illinois, United States
Ottawa, Illinois, United States, is a small city in northern Illinois known as the birthplace of acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick and for its historic role in the Lincoln–Douglas debates.
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D.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
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E.
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Major League Baseball manager
ⓘ
baseball manager ⓘ village ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New Athens, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village government ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Whitey Herzog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the hometown of Hall of Fame baseball manager Whitey Herzog ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Baseball Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Athens, Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
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St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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| usesCurrency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
United States dollar
|
| usesPostalSystem | United States Postal Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Athens, Illinois, United States Description of subject: New Athens, Illinois, United States is a small village in St. Clair County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame baseball manager Whitey Herzog.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.