Freeport, Illinois
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Freeport, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known historically as the site of the second Lincoln-Douglas debate and as the birthplace of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Freeport, Illinois canonical | 10 |
| Freeport, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area | 1 |
| Freeport, Illinois, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3808632 — 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: Freeport, Illinois Context triple: [Charles J. Guiteau, placeOfBirth, Freeport, Illinois]
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A.
Frankfort, Illinois
Frankfort, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and family-oriented community.
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B.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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C.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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D.
Fairmont, Illinois
Fairmont, Illinois is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Will County in the northeastern part of the state.
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E.
St. Joseph, Illinois
St. Joseph, Illinois is a small Midwestern village located in east-central Illinois, known for its close-knit community and proximity to the city of Champaign.
- 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: Freeport, Illinois Target entity description: Freeport, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known historically as the site of the second Lincoln-Douglas debate and as the birthplace of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
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A.
Frankfort, Illinois
Frankfort, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and family-oriented community.
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B.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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C.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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D.
Fairmont, Illinois
Fairmont, Illinois is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Will County in the northeastern part of the state.
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E.
St. Joseph, Illinois
St. Joseph, Illinois is a small Midwestern village located in east-central Illinois, known for its close-knit community and proximity to the city of Champaign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode |
779
ⓘ
815 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | Stephenson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 794 feet ⓘ |
| governedBy | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasDemonym | Freeporter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Highland Community College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Freeport High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Downtown Freeport Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricEvent | Lincoln–Douglas debate of August 27, 1858 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Freeport Public Library
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lincoln–Douglas Debate Square NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephenson County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Stephenson County Historical Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Pretzel City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Krape Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | Freeport Pretzels (high school teams) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 26
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 20 (bypass nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inCongressionalDistrict | Illinois's 17th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
birthplace of Charles J. Guiteau
ⓘ
site of the second Lincoln–Douglas debate ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Stephenson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody | Pecatonica River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Freeport, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | northern Illinois ⓘ |
| postalCode | 61032 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Freeport, Illinois Description of subject: Freeport, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known historically as the site of the second Lincoln-Douglas debate and as the birthplace of presidential assassin Charles J. Guiteau.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Freeport, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Freeport, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area