Alexander County, Illinois
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Alexander County, Illinois is a small, rural county at the southern tip of Illinois, known for its location at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and its county seat, Cairo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander County, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630936 — 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: Alexander County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Alexander County, Illinois]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
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: Alexander County, Illinois Target entity description: Alexander County, Illinois is a small, rural county at the southern tip of Illinois, known for its location at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and its county seat, Cairo.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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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.
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 (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Ballard County, Kentucky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cape Girardeau County, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Carlisle County, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ Mississippi County, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulaski County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersRiver |
Mississippi River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Cairo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-003 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1779754 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasCity | Cairo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountyNumber | 003 in Illinois ⓘ |
| hasFeature | confluence of Mississippi and Ohio Rivers ⓘ |
| hasHistoricTown | Cairo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJudicialCircuit | First Judicial Circuit of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSeatType | county seat ⓘ |
| hasUnincorporatedCommunity |
Diswood, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hodges Park, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Karnak, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ McClure, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Miller City, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandusky, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVillage |
Olive Branch, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamms, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Thebes, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isOnBorderWith |
Kentucky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| isSouthernmostCountyOf | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCity | Cairo, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedAtConfluenceOf |
Mississippi River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ohio River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southern Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Little Egypt (Southern Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alexander M. Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Illinois 12th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalAbbreviation | 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: Alexander County, Illinois Description of subject: Alexander County, Illinois is a small, rural county at the southern tip of Illinois, known for its location at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and its county seat, Cairo.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.