Menard County, Illinois
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Menard County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its historic connection to Abraham Lincoln and its county seat, Petersburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Menard County, Illinois canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630899 — 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: Menard County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Menard County, Illinois]
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A.
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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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.
Tazewell County, Illinois
Tazewell County, Illinois is a largely suburban and rural county in the Peoria metropolitan area, known for its agricultural base, riverfront communities along the Illinois River, and role as a regional economic and transportation hub in central Illinois.
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D.
Macon County, Illinois
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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E.
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.
- 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: Menard County, Illinois Target entity description: Menard County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its historic connection to Abraham Lincoln and its county seat, Petersburg.
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A.
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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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.
Tazewell County, Illinois
Tazewell County, Illinois is a largely suburban and rural county in the Peoria metropolitan area, known for its agricultural base, riverfront communities along the Illinois River, and role as a regional economic and transportation hub in central Illinois.
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D.
Macon County, Illinois
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Cass County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Logan County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mason County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgan County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sangamon County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Tazewell County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsHistoricSite | Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSettlement |
Athens, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greenview, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Oakford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Petersburg, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Tallula, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsUnincorporatedCommunity |
Atterberry, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Salem, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Creek, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweetwater, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Petersburg, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17129 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 04292134 ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalEconomy | true ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| hasAreaUnit | square miles ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCountyGovernmentType | county board ⓘ |
| hasHistoricEconomicActivity |
farming
ⓘ
trade along the Sangamon River ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Oakford Cemetery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Petersburg Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJudicialCircuit | 8th Judicial Circuit of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorRiver | Sangamon River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLandUse | agriculture ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith | Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfMetropolitanArea | Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| legislativeDistrict | Illinois’s 18th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Sangamon River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedInUSCensusDivision | East North Central NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInUSCensusRegion | Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Pierre Menard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Menard County, Illinois Description of subject: Menard County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its historic connection to Abraham Lincoln and its county seat, Petersburg.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.