Illinois College
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Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Illinois College canonical | 28 |
| Illinois College campus | 1 |
| Knox College | 1 |
| symbol of school spirit for Illinois College | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T761712 — 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: Illinois College Context triple: [Edward Beecher, affiliation, Illinois College]
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A.
Illinois State University
Illinois State University is a public research university located in Normal, Illinois, known for its strong education programs and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate offerings.
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B.
Shimer College
Shimer College is a small, Great Books–focused liberal arts college known for its discussion-based curriculum and emphasis on classic texts in the humanities.
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C.
University of Illinois Springfield
The University of Illinois Springfield is a public university and regional campus of the University of Illinois system known for its strong programs in public affairs, liberal arts, and online education.
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D.
Knox College
Knox College is a historic theological college and residence affiliated with the University of Toronto, located on its St. George campus.
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E.
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
- 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: Illinois College Target entity description: Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
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A.
Illinois State University
Illinois State University is a public research university located in Normal, Illinois, known for its strong education programs and comprehensive undergraduate and graduate offerings.
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B.
Shimer College
Shimer College is a small, Great Books–focused liberal arts college known for its discussion-based curriculum and emphasis on classic texts in the humanities.
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C.
University of Illinois Springfield
The University of Illinois Springfield is a public university and regional campus of the University of Illinois system known for its strong programs in public affairs, liberal arts, and online education.
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D.
Knox College
Knox College is a historic theological college and residence affiliated with the University of Toronto, located on its St. George campus.
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E.
Eastern Illinois University
Eastern Illinois University is a public university in Charleston, Illinois, known for its strong liberal arts and teacher education programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Illinois College Description of subject: Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Illinois College
linked to: Illinois College
subject linked to:
Jacksonville
subject linked to:
Jacksonville
linked to: Illinois College
subject linked to:
Powell Plateau in the Grand Canyon named after him
subject linked to:
Richard Yates (politician)