Coles County, Illinois
E273441
Coles County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coles County, Illinois canonical | 8 |
| Coles County | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2492507 — 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: Coles County, Illinois Context triple: [Eastern Illinois University, locatedIn, Coles County, Illinois]
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Stephenson County, Illinois
Stephenson County, Illinois is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns such as Cedarville, and its county seat of Freeport.
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B.
Boone County, Illinois
Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
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C.
Vermilion County, Illinois
Vermilion County, Illinois is a county in eastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, historic coal mining industry, and county seat of Danville near the Indiana border.
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D.
Kendall County, Illinois
Kendall County, Illinois is a rapidly growing suburban county in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its mix of residential communities, farmland, and small towns such as Yorkville and Oswego.
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E.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
- 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: Coles County, Illinois Target entity description: Coles County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
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A.
Stephenson County, Illinois
Stephenson County, Illinois is a county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns such as Cedarville, and its county seat of Freeport.
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B.
Boone County, Illinois
Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
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C.
Vermilion County, Illinois
Vermilion County, Illinois is a county in eastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, historic coal mining industry, and county seat of Danville near the Indiana border.
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D.
Kendall County, Illinois
Kendall County, Illinois is a rapidly growing suburban county in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its mix of residential communities, farmland, and small towns such as Yorkville and Oswego.
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E.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Coles County, Illinois Description of subject: Coles County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and as the home of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Charleston, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Coles County
subject surface form:
Charleston, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Coles County
subject surface form:
Charleston, Illinois