New Boston, Illinois
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New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New Boston, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12909690 — 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 Boston, Illinois Context triple: [Mercer County, Illinois, containsSettlement, New Boston, Illinois]
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New Boston, Indiana
New Boston, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Perry County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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B.
New Berlin, Illinois
New Berlin, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois located just west of Springfield in Sangamon County.
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Newman, Illinois
Newman, Illinois is a small rural city located in east-central Illinois within Douglas County.
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D.
New City, Chicago
New City is a community area on Chicago’s South Side that includes the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards, historically known for its stockyards and industrial roots.
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Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit 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 Boston, Illinois Target entity description: New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
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New Boston, Indiana
New Boston, Indiana is an unincorporated rural community located in Perry County in the southern part of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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B.
New Berlin, Illinois
New Berlin, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois located just west of Springfield in Sangamon County.
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Newman, Illinois
Newman, Illinois is a small rural city located in east-central Illinois within Douglas County.
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New City, Chicago
New City is a community area on Chicago’s South Side that includes the neighborhoods of Canaryville and Back of the Yards, historically known for its stockyards and industrial roots.
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E.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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 Boston, Illinois Description of subject: New Boston, Illinois is a small city situated along the Mississippi River in Mercer County in western Illinois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.