Rochester, Illinois
E452930
Rochester, Illinois is a small village in Sangamon County that functions largely as a residential suburb of nearby Springfield.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rochester, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2251469 — 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: Rochester, Illinois Context triple: [Sangamon County, Illinois, contains, Rochester, Illinois]
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A.
Richmond, Illinois
Richmond, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border, known for its historic downtown and rural character.
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B.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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C.
Rockford, Illinois
Rockford, Illinois is a mid-sized city in northern Illinois known historically as an industrial center and for its manufacturing, cultural institutions, and proximity to the Rock River.
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D.
Ottawa, Illinois
Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
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E.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
- 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: Rochester, Illinois Target entity description: Rochester, Illinois is a small village in Sangamon County that functions largely as a residential suburb of nearby Springfield.
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A.
Richmond, Illinois
Richmond, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border, known for its historic downtown and rural character.
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B.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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C.
Rockford, Illinois
Rockford, Illinois is a mid-sized city in northern Illinois known historically as an industrial center and for its manufacturing, cultural institutions, and proximity to the Rock River.
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D.
Ottawa, Illinois
Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
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E.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Sangamon River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Sangamon County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasElementarySchool |
Rochester Elementary School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rochester Intermediate School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEmergencyService |
Rochester Fire Protection District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rochester Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Rochester High School (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | Village of Rochester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleSchool | Rochester Junior High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParkDistrict | Rochester Park District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Rochester Public Library District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Rochester Community Unit School District 3A NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 29
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 54 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isNamedAfter | Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Census Bureau places in Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isResidentialSuburbOf | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSuburbOf | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| localEconomy | primarily residential ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInStatisticalArea | Springfield, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metropolitanArea | Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62563 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Rochester, Illinois Description of subject: Rochester, Illinois is a small village in Sangamon County that functions largely as a residential suburb of nearby Springfield.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.