Winnebago County, Illinois
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Winnebago County, Illinois is a northern Illinois county centered on the city of Rockford, known for its industrial heritage and role as the core of the Rockford metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Winnebago County, Illinois canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3568655 — 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: Winnebago County, Illinois Context triple: [Rockford metropolitan area, containsCounty, Winnebago County, Illinois]
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Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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B.
Washington County, Illinois
Washington County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in southern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities, with Nashville as its county seat.
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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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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.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
- 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: Winnebago County, Illinois Target entity description: Winnebago County, Illinois is a northern Illinois county centered on the city of Rockford, known for its industrial heritage and role as the core of the Rockford metropolitan area.
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A.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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B.
Washington County, Illinois
Washington County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in southern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities, with Nashville as its county seat.
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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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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.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
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county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Boone County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Green County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Ogle County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock County, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephenson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Cherry Valley, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Durand, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Loves Park, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Machesney Park, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Pecatonica, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockton, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Roscoe, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ South Beloit, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Winnebago, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17201 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 04299240 ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Chicago Rockford International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution |
Rock Valley College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rockford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialCenter | Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJudicialCircuit | 17th Judicial Circuit of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Illinois Route 2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 251 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 39 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 20 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMetropolitanArea | Rockford metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCoreOf | Rockford metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfStatisticalArea | Rockford–Freeport–Rochelle combined statistical area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | industrial heritage ⓘ |
| largestCity | Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Winnebago people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| river |
Pecatonica River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rock River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seat | Rockford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Winnebago County, Illinois Description of subject: Winnebago County, Illinois is a northern Illinois county centered on the city of Rockford, known for its industrial heritage and role as the core of the Rockford metropolitan area.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Northern Illinois