Macoupin County, Illinois
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Macoupin County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historic courthouse in the county seat of Carlinville.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macoupin County, Illinois canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630903 — 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: Macoupin County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Macoupin County, Illinois]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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D.
Menard County, Illinois
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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E.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
- 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: Macoupin County, Illinois Target entity description: Macoupin County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historic courthouse in the county seat of Carlinville.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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D.
Menard County, Illinois
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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E.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Greene County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jersey County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Morgan County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sangamon County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Carlinville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courthouseLocatedIn | Carlinville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17117 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 0429421 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasCourthouse | Macoupin County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
farmland
ⓘ
rural communities ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite | Macoupin County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Benld, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brighton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Bunker Hill, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlinville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Gillespie, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Girard, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mount Olive, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shipman, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Staunton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Virden, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLandlocked | true ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural landscape
ⓘ
historic courthouse in Carlinville ⓘ small towns ⓘ |
| largestCity | Carlinville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southwestern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | American Midwest ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Macoupin Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | 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: Macoupin County, Illinois Description of subject: Macoupin County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southwestern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historic courthouse in the county seat of Carlinville.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.