Macon County, Illinois
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Macon County, Illinois is a largely agricultural county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose county seat and largest city is Decatur.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Macon County, Illinois canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630873 — 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: Macon County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Macon County, Illinois]
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A.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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B.
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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C.
Mercer County, Illinois
Mercer County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, with Aledo as its county seat.
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D.
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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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: Macon County, Illinois Target entity description: Macon County, Illinois is a largely agricultural county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose county seat and largest city is Decatur.
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A.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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B.
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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C.
Mercer County, Illinois
Mercer County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, with Aledo as its county seat.
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D.
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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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 (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: Macon County, Illinois Description of subject: Macon County, Illinois is a largely agricultural county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose county seat and largest city is Decatur.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.