Charleston, Illinois
E501078
Charleston, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois best known as the home of Eastern Illinois University and its surrounding college-town community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charleston, Illinois canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2492505 — 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: Charleston, Illinois Context triple: [Eastern Illinois University, locatedIn, Charleston, Illinois]
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A.
Richmond, Illinois
Richmond, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border, known for its historic downtown and rural character.
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B.
Frankfort, Illinois
Frankfort, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and family-oriented community.
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C.
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known historically as an early center of education and abolitionist activity.
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D.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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E.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
- 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: Charleston, Illinois Target entity description: Charleston, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois best known as the home of Eastern Illinois University and its surrounding college-town community.
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A.
Richmond, Illinois
Richmond, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border, known for its historic downtown and rural character.
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B.
Frankfort, Illinois
Frankfort, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and family-oriented community.
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C.
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known historically as an early center of education and abolitionist activity.
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D.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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E.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Coles County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | significant student population ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
about 120 miles west of Indianapolis, Indiana
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about 180 miles south of Chicago, Illinois ⓘ about 50 miles south of Champaign, Illinois ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 722 feet ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1830s ⓘ |
| governingBody | City of Charleston government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicCharacteristic | college-town economy ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
higher education
ⓘ
retail and services ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
college-town community atmosphere
ⓘ
residential neighborhoods surrounding university ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Coles County Courthouse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eastern Illinois University campus NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLibrary | Charleston Carnegie Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAirport | Coles County Memorial Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Chucktown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableEvent | Lincoln–Douglas debate site (nearby Coles County) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasParkSystem | Charleston Parks and Recreation Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulation |
approximately 20,000 (city)
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approximately 30,000 (metro area, rough) ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Charleston Community Unit School District 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 16
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 45 nearby ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Eastern Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCityIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Coles County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Eastern Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | east-central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Embarras River watershed ⓘ |
| near | Mattoon, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 61920 ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Charleston, Illinois Description of subject: Charleston, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois best known as the home of Eastern Illinois University and its surrounding college-town community.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Eastern Illinois University)
subject surface form:
College of Education (Eastern Illinois University)