Cowden, Illinois
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Cowden, Illinois is a small rural village located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cowden, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17734675 — 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: Cowden, Illinois Context triple: [Shelby County, Illinois, hasSettlement, Cowden, Illinois]
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A.
Kincaid, Illinois
Kincaid, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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B.
Bonfield, Illinois
Bonfield, Illinois is a small village in Kankakee County that forms part of the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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C.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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D.
Cadwell, Illinois
Cadwell, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located in Moultrie County in east-central Illinois.
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E.
Lovelock, Illinois
Lovelock, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located within Moultrie County in the U.S. state of Illinois.
- 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: Cowden, Illinois Target entity description: Cowden, Illinois is a small rural village located in Shelby County in the central part of the state.
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A.
Kincaid, Illinois
Kincaid, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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B.
Bonfield, Illinois
Bonfield, Illinois is a small village in Kankakee County that forms part of the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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C.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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D.
Cadwell, Illinois
Cadwell, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located in Moultrie County in east-central Illinois.
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E.
Lovelock, Illinois
Lovelock, Illinois is a small unincorporated rural community located within Moultrie County in the U.S. state of Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.