northwestern Illinois
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Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| northwestern Illinois canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12839217 — 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: northwestern Illinois Context triple: [Rock Island County, Illinois, locatedIn, northwestern Illinois]
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A.
northern Illinois
Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
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B.
Central Illinois
Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
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C.
Northeastern Illinois
Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
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D.
eastern Illinois
Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
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E.
western Illinois
Western Illinois is a predominantly rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi River opposite southeastern Iowa.
- 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: northwestern Illinois Target entity description: Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
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A.
northern Illinois
Northern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that includes the area around Rockford and the far north counties bordering Wisconsin.
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B.
Central Illinois
Central Illinois is a predominantly rural and small-city region in the middle of the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by its agricultural economy and mid-sized urban centers such as Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Champaign-Urbana.
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C.
Northeastern Illinois
Northeastern Illinois is a metropolitan region of Illinois that includes the Chicago area and its surrounding counties, serving as a major hub for transportation, commerce, and culture in the Midwest.
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D.
eastern Illinois
Eastern Illinois is the region comprising the eastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois, bordering Indiana and encompassing a mix of agricultural areas, small cities, and college towns.
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E.
western Illinois
Western Illinois is a predominantly rural region of Illinois characterized by small cities, agricultural communities, and its location along the Mississippi River opposite southeastern Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | region of Illinois ⓘ |
| adjacentToState |
Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borders | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economicRegionOf | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderCity |
East Moline, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Galena, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution |
Augustana College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Highland Community College (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauk Valley Community College NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Illinois University–Quad Cities campus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricTown | Galena, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLargestUrbanArea | Illinois portion of the Quad Cities ⓘ |
| hasMajorRiver |
Mississippi River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationCorridor |
Interstate 80
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 88 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesCity |
East Moline, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Freeport, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Galena, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Moline, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesCounty |
Carroll County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo Daviess County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Island County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephenson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiteside County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includesMetropolitanArea | Quad Cities metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural economy
ⓘ
manufacturing industries ⓘ rolling hills and bluffs along the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Driftless Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesMetropolitanAreaWith |
Bettendorf, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Davenport, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: northwestern Illinois Description of subject: Northwestern Illinois is a region of the U.S. state of Illinois that encompasses areas along the Mississippi River and includes cities such as Rock Island and the surrounding Quad Cities metropolitan area.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fulton, Illinois