Union County, Illinois
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Union County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and proximity to the Shawnee National Forest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Union County, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630934 — 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: Union County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Union County, Illinois]
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A.
Cumberland County, Illinois
Cumberland County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Toledo.
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B.
Montgomery County, Illinois
Montgomery County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Hillsboro.
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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.
Carroll County, Illinois
Carroll County, Illinois is a rural county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
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E.
Richland County, Illinois
Richland County, Illinois is a rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities, with Olney as its county seat.
- 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: Union County, Illinois Target entity description: Union County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and proximity to the Shawnee National Forest.
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A.
Cumberland County, Illinois
Cumberland County, Illinois is a rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Toledo.
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B.
Montgomery County, Illinois
Montgomery County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as its county seat, Hillsboro.
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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.
Carroll County, Illinois
Carroll County, Illinois is a rural county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape and small communities.
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E.
Richland County, Illinois
Richland County, Illinois is a rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities, with Olney as its county seat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Alexander County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jackson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulaski County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Alto Pass, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anna, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Cobden, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Dongola, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonesboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Mill Creek, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shawnee National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Trail of Tears State Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County Courthouse (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ part of the Illinois Ozarks ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| countySeat | Jonesboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy | agriculture-based economy ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Mississippi River floodplain
ⓘ
bluffs and hills ⓘ farmland ⓘ forested areas ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | predominantly agricultural ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural county ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 146
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
orchards and vineyards ⓘ rural landscape ⓘ |
| largestSettlement | Anna, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Shawnee Hills region NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Union ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Little Egypt (Southern Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf | United States county system ⓘ |
| 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: Union County, Illinois Description of subject: Union County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the southern part of the state, known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and proximity to the Shawnee National Forest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.