Clay County, Illinois
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Clay County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities within the central part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clay County, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630908 — 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: Clay County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Clay 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.
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.
Cumberland County, Illinois
Cumberland County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Toledo.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Clay County, Illinois Target entity description: Clay County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities within the central part of the state.
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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.
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.
Cumberland County, Illinois
Cumberland County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Toledo.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| borders |
Effingham County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jasper County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Richland County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfEstablishment | 1824 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasArea | approximately 470 square miles ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasAreaWaterPercentage | approximately 0.5 percent ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | rural county ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Louisville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17-025 ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 04286777 ⓘ |
| hasJudicialCircuit | Fourth Judicial Circuit of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Flora, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicActivity |
crop farming
ⓘ
livestock farming ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Bible Grove, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clay City, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Flora, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ingraham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Iola, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Louisville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskaloosa, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sailor Springs, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Xenia, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasZIPCode |
62443
ⓘ
62824 ⓘ 62839 ⓘ 62858 ⓘ 62879 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois congressional district 15
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Illinois Route 50 corridor vicinity ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Henry Clay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
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: Clay County, Illinois Description of subject: Clay County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities within the central part of the state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.