Illinois Route 23
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Illinois Route 23 is a north–south state highway in northern Illinois that connects several communities, including the city of DeKalb, and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois Route 23 canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4651857 — 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: Illinois Route 23 Context triple: [DeKalb, hasMajorRoad, Illinois Route 23]
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A.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
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B.
Illinois Route 22
Illinois Route 22 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects several suburbs northwest of Chicago.
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C.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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E.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
- 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: Illinois Route 23 Target entity description: Illinois Route 23 is a north–south state highway in northern Illinois that connects several communities, including the city of DeKalb, and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
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A.
Illinois Route 21
Illinois Route 21 is a state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through several suburbs north of Chicago, including Lincolnshire.
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B.
Illinois Route 22
Illinois Route 22 is an east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois that connects several suburbs northwest of Chicago.
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C.
Illinois Route 47
Illinois Route 47 is a major north–south state highway in Illinois that runs through multiple counties, including McHenry County, and serves as an important regional transportation corridor.
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D.
Illinois Route 43
Illinois Route 43 is a major north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs through numerous suburbs of Chicago.
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E.
Illinois Route 31
Illinois Route 31 is a north–south state highway in northeastern Illinois that runs along the Fox River corridor, connecting multiple communities in McHenry and Kane counties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
road transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
state highway ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IL 23 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
State highways in Illinois
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Transportation in DeKalb County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in Livingston County, Illinois ⓘ Transportation in McHenry County, Illinois ⓘ |
| connectsCity |
DeKalb, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marengo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottawa, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontiac, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Streator, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sycamore, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsCounty |
Boone County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
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DeKalb County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ LaSalle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Livingston County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ McHenry County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
Illinois Route 17
NERFINISHED
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Illinois Route 18 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 64 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 72 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 39 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 80 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 34 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 52 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| function |
connector of multiple communities
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regional transportation corridor ⓘ |
| highwaySystem | Illinois State Highway System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationRegion | northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maintainedBy | Illinois Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orientation | north–south ⓘ |
| passesThrough |
DeKalb, Illinois
NERFINISHED
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Marengo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottawa, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontiac, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Streator, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sycamore, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionServed |
north-central Illinois
ⓘ
northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadSurface | paved ⓘ |
| roadType | two-lane highway (for most of its length) ⓘ |
| routeNumber | 23 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusNorth | near Harvard, Illinois ⓘ |
| terminusSouth | near Pontiac, Illinois ⓘ |
| usedFor |
local traffic
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regional traffic ⓘ |
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: Illinois Route 23 Description of subject: Illinois Route 23 is a north–south state highway in northern Illinois that connects several communities, including the city of DeKalb, and serves as a key regional transportation corridor.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.