Centralia, Illinois
E452938
Centralia, Illinois is a small city in southern Illinois known historically as a regional railroad hub and coal-mining community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Centralia, Illinois canonical | 3 |
| Centralia, Illinois, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2441431 — 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: Centralia, Illinois Context triple: [Centralia, Kansas, namedAfter, Centralia, Illinois]
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A.
Ludlow, Illinois
Ludlow, Illinois is a small village in east-central Illinois located within the rural agricultural region of Champaign County.
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B.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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C.
Riverton, Illinois
Riverton, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community near the state capital of Springfield.
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D.
Coal City, Illinois
Coal City, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and close-knit community.
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E.
Kewanee, Illinois
Kewanee, Illinois is a small city in Henry County known historically for its agricultural roots and manufacturing, particularly in farm equipment and boilers.
- 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: Centralia, Illinois Target entity description: Centralia, Illinois is a small city in southern Illinois known historically as a regional railroad hub and coal-mining community.
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A.
Ludlow, Illinois
Ludlow, Illinois is a small village in east-central Illinois located within the rural agricultural region of Champaign County.
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B.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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C.
Riverton, Illinois
Riverton, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community near the state capital of Springfield.
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D.
Coal City, Illinois
Coal City, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and close-knit community.
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E.
Kewanee, Illinois
Kewanee, Illinois is a small city in Henry County known historically for its agricultural roots and manufacturing, particularly in farm equipment and boilers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county |
Clinton County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | small city population size ⓘ |
| economyCharacteristic | post-industrial transition from coal and rail to services ⓘ |
| foundedAs | railroad town ⓘ |
| governedBy | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Centralia High School (Illinois)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kaskaskia College (nearby regional college serving Centralia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Centralia Balloon Fest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentLevel | local government ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
coal mining (historically)
ⓘ
light manufacturing ⓘ rail transportation ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Centralia Carillon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fairview Park (Centralia, Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ Raccoon Lake (near Centralia, Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFeature | Illinois coal basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructure | Centralia Carillon tower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 62801 ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Amtrak station in Centralia, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 161 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
coal-mining community
ⓘ
regional railroad hub ⓘ |
| languageMajority | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Marion County micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Interstate 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Centralia, Illinois railroad junction (Illinois Central Railroad) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
St. Louis metropolitan area (broad economic region) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| railJunctionFor | north–south and east–west rail lines in Southern Illinois ⓘ |
| railroadServedBy | Illinois Central Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNetworkRole | regional transportation center in Southern Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: Centralia, Illinois Description of subject: Centralia, Illinois is a small city in southern Illinois known historically as a regional railroad hub and coal-mining community.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Centralia, Kansas
this entity surface form:
Centralia, Illinois, United States
subject surface form:
Salem, Illinois