Iroquois County, Illinois
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Iroquois County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in eastern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities near the Indiana border.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iroquois County, Illinois canonical | 19 |
| Iroquois County | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630893 — 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: Iroquois County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Iroquois County, Illinois]
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A.
Monroe County, Illinois
Monroe County, Illinois is a largely rural county in southwestern Illinois situated just south of St. Louis, known for its historic river towns and role as part of the greater St. Louis region.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
St. Clair County, Illinois
St. Clair County, Illinois is a populous county in southwestern Illinois that includes part of the St. Louis metropolitan area and the city of Belleville as its county seat.
- 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: Iroquois County, Illinois Target entity description: Iroquois County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in eastern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities near the Indiana border.
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A.
Monroe County, Illinois
Monroe County, Illinois is a largely rural county in southwestern Illinois situated just south of St. Louis, known for its historic river towns and role as part of the greater St. Louis region.
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B.
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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C.
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.
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D.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
St. Clair County, Illinois
St. Clair County, Illinois is a populous county in southwestern Illinois that includes part of the St. Louis metropolitan area and the city of Belleville as its county seat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| agriculturalProduct |
corn
ⓘ
soybeans ⓘ |
| borders | Indiana ⓘ |
| characteristic | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Watseka, Illinois ⓘ |
| economyType | agricultural ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-075 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 0429011 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasBorder |
Benton County, Indiana
ⓘ
Ford County, Illinois ⓘ Jasper County, Indiana ⓘ Kankakee County, Illinois ⓘ Newton County, Indiana ⓘ Vermilion County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasCommunityType |
small towns
ⓘ
unincorporated communities ⓘ |
| largestCity | Watseka, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois’s 2nd congressional district
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois 2nd congressional district
Midwestern United States ⓘ eastern Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Iroquois people
ⓘ
linked to:
Iroquois
|
| partOf |
State of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
|
| primaryLandUse | farmland ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
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: Iroquois County, Illinois Description of subject: Iroquois County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in eastern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities near the Indiana border.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Iroquois County, Illinois
linked to: Iroquois County, Illinois
linked to: Iroquois County, Illinois
linked to: Iroquois County, Illinois
linked to: Iroquois County, Illinois