Effingham County, Illinois
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Effingham County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its transportation crossroads and agricultural economy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Effingham County, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630913 — 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: Effingham County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Effingham County, Illinois]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Effingham County, Illinois Target entity description: Effingham County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its transportation crossroads and agricultural economy.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| bordersCounty |
Clay County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cumberland County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Fayette County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Jasper County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelby County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterizedAs | predominantly rural county ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Lake Sara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Wabash River NERFINISHED ⓘ North Fork of the Little Wabash River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Effingham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyType | agriculture-based economy ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-049 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 04286864 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Altamont, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Effingham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
crop farming
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ transportation and logistics ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Effingham micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVillage |
Dieterich, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edgewood, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mason, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Montrose, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shumway, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Teutopolis, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Watson, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural economy
ⓘ
transportation crossroads ⓘ |
| largestCity | Effingham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Effingham County Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States Corn Belt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
east-central Illinois ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Interstate 57
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Effingham County, Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| postalAbbreviationState | IL ⓘ |
| 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: Effingham County, Illinois Description of subject: Effingham County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its transportation crossroads and agricultural economy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.