Carrollton, Illinois
E540525
Carrollton, Illinois is a small city in Greene County that serves as the county seat and is part of the St. Louis metropolitan region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carrollton, Illinois canonical | 2 |
| Carrollton, Illinois, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5216873 — 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: Carrollton, Illinois Context triple: [Henry T. Rainey, placeOfBirth, Carrollton, Illinois]
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A.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
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B.
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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C.
Ottawa, Illinois
Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
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D.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
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E.
Kenilworth, Illinois
Kenilworth, Illinois is a small, affluent North Shore suburb of Chicago known for its planned residential character and high-quality schools.
- 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: Carrollton, Illinois Target entity description: Carrollton, Illinois is a small city in Greene County that serves as the county seat and is part of the St. Louis metropolitan region.
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A.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
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B.
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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C.
Ottawa, Illinois
Ottawa, Illinois is a historic city in northern Illinois known for its location at the confluence of the Fox and Illinois Rivers and as the site of the first Lincoln–Douglas debate.
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D.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
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E.
Kenilworth, Illinois
Kenilworth, Illinois is a small, affluent North Shore suburb of Chicago known for its planned residential character and high-quality schools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Greene County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElevationInMeters | 158 ⓘ |
| hasFeature | county courthouse ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17-113-11463 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 2393692 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 39.302 ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | -90.407 ⓘ |
| hasRole | administrative center of Greene County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasSettlementCategory | small city ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 108
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 267 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Greene County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Greene County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedIn | southwestern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| locatedNear | St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Charles Carroll of Carrollton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62016 ⓘ |
| region | Greene County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
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: Carrollton, Illinois Description of subject: Carrollton, Illinois is a small city in Greene County that serves as the county seat and is part of the St. Louis metropolitan region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry T. Rainey
this entity surface form:
Carrollton, Illinois, United States