Coal Valley, Illinois
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Coal Valley, Illinois is a small village in the Quad Cities region of western Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and residential community character.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coal Valley, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12839225 — 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: Coal Valley, Illinois Context triple: [Rock Island County, Illinois, contains, Coal Valley, Illinois]
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A.
Spring Valley, Illinois
Spring Valley, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and location along the Illinois River near Peru.
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B.
Fox Valley, Illinois
Fox Valley, Illinois is a suburban region along the Fox River in northeastern Illinois, known for its chain of historic riverfront communities, parks, and mixed residential and commercial development.
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C.
Coal City, Illinois
Coal City, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and close-knit community.
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D.
Valley City, Illinois
Valley City, Illinois is a very small village in western Illinois known for its location along the Illinois River and its extremely low population.
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E.
Riverwoods, Illinois
Riverwoods, Illinois is a small, affluent suburban village in Lake County known for its heavily wooded residential areas and proximity to Chicago’s North Shore communities.
- 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: Coal Valley, Illinois Target entity description: Coal Valley, Illinois is a small village in the Quad Cities region of western Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and residential community character.
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A.
Spring Valley, Illinois
Spring Valley, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and location along the Illinois River near Peru.
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B.
Fox Valley, Illinois
Fox Valley, Illinois is a suburban region along the Fox River in northeastern Illinois, known for its chain of historic riverfront communities, parks, and mixed residential and commercial development.
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C.
Coal City, Illinois
Coal City, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and close-knit community.
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D.
Valley City, Illinois
Valley City, Illinois is a very small village in western Illinois known for its location along the Illinois River and its extremely low population.
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E.
Riverwoods, Illinois
Riverwoods, Illinois is a small, affluent suburban village in Lake County known for its heavily wooded residential areas and proximity to Chicago’s North Shore communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
East Moline, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 309 ⓘ |
| belongsTo | United States Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Henry County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock Island County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateRegion | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county |
Henry County
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock Island County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| currentEconomicBase | residential services ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
residential community
ⓘ
suburban community ⓘ |
| hasCommunityCharacter |
bedroom community
ⓘ
family-oriented community ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | small population ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalActivity |
coal extraction
ⓘ
coal shipping ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalIndustry | coal mining ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
former mining areas
ⓘ
residential ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentJurisdiction |
Henry County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock Island County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasRoadConnection | Illinois state highways NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| hasUrbanClassification | suburban village ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicBase | coal mining ⓘ |
| isInCountrySubdivision | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInEconomicRegion | Quad Cities region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInRegion | northwestern Illinois ⓘ |
| isPartOfMetropolitanArea | Quad Cities metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Quad Cities
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedNearRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | coal ⓘ |
| partOf |
Henry County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock Island County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportationRegion | Quad Cities transportation network 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: Coal Valley, Illinois Description of subject: Coal Valley, Illinois is a small village in the Quad Cities region of western Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and residential community character.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.