Clinton County, Illinois
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Clinton County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the southern part of the state known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and recreational areas around Carlyle Lake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clinton County, Illinois canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630919 — 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: Clinton County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Clinton County, Illinois]
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A.
Scott County, Illinois
Scott County, Illinois is a small, rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and low population.
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B.
Clay County, Illinois
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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C.
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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D.
Crawford County, Illinois
Crawford County, Illinois is a rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and location along the Wabash River near the Indiana border.
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E.
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.
- 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: Clinton County, Illinois Target entity description: Clinton County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the southern part of the state known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and recreational areas around Carlyle Lake.
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A.
Scott County, Illinois
Scott County, Illinois is a small, rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and low population.
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B.
Clay County, Illinois
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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C.
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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D.
Crawford County, Illinois
Crawford County, Illinois is a rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and location along the Wabash River near the Indiana border.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Bond County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fayette County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Marion County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Albers, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aviston, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Bartelso, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Breese, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlyle Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlyle, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Germantown, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Hoffman, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Keyesport, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ New Baden, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Trenton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Wamac, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| foundedBy | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaFeature |
Carlyle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eldon Hazlet State Recreation Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural economy
ⓘ
predominantly rural ⓘ recreational tourism around Carlyle Lake ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Carlyle, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
farmland
ⓘ
small towns ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Breese, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeBody | Clinton County Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
services ⓘ |
| hasRecreationActivity |
boating on Carlyle Lake
ⓘ
camping near Carlyle Lake ⓘ fishing on Carlyle Lake ⓘ |
| isPartOf | St. Louis metropolitan area (partially) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | American Corn Belt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | DeWitt Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateSubdivisionOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county of Illinois ⓘ |
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: Clinton County, Illinois Description of subject: Clinton County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the southern part of the state known for its agricultural economy, small towns, and recreational areas around Carlyle Lake.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.