Shawneetown, Illinois
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Shawneetown, Illinois is a small historic town in southeastern Illinois along the Ohio River, known for its early 19th-century river commerce and repeated flooding that led to the relocation of much of the community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shawneetown, Illinois canonical | 5 |
| Old Shawneetown, Illinois | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6026737 — 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: Shawneetown, Illinois Context triple: [Wabash River, mouthNear, Shawneetown, Illinois]
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A.
Kaskaskia, Illinois
Kaskaskia, Illinois is a historic village on the Mississippi River that served as the first capital of Illinois and one of the earliest European settlements in the region.
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B.
Roanoke, Illinois
Roanoke, Illinois is a small village in Woodford County that forms part of the broader Peoria region in central Illinois.
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C.
Petersburg, Illinois
Petersburg, Illinois is a small historic city in central Illinois best known as the county seat of Menard County and its proximity to New Salem State Historic Site, where Abraham Lincoln once lived.
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D.
Leonore, Illinois
Leonore, Illinois is a small village located in LaSalle County in north-central Illinois, United States.
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E.
Darien, Illinois
Darien, Illinois is a suburban city located in DuPage County, west of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and parkland.
- 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: Shawneetown, Illinois Target entity description: Shawneetown, Illinois is a small historic town in southeastern Illinois along the Ohio River, known for its early 19th-century river commerce and repeated flooding that led to the relocation of much of the community.
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A.
Kaskaskia, Illinois
Kaskaskia, Illinois is a historic village on the Mississippi River that served as the first capital of Illinois and one of the earliest European settlements in the region.
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B.
Roanoke, Illinois
Roanoke, Illinois is a small village in Woodford County that forms part of the broader Peoria region in central Illinois.
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C.
Petersburg, Illinois
Petersburg, Illinois is a small historic city in central Illinois best known as the county seat of Menard County and its proximity to New Salem State Historic Site, where Abraham Lincoln once lived.
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D.
Leonore, Illinois
Leonore, Illinois is a small village located in LaSalle County in north-central Illinois, United States.
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E.
Darien, Illinois
Darien, Illinois is a suburban city located in DuPage County, west of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and parkland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| category |
Cities in Illinois
ⓘ
Populated places in Gallatin County, Illinois ⓘ Populated places on the Ohio River ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Gallatin County, Illinois ⓘ |
| economicHistory | river-based commerce and trade ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 361 feet ⓘ |
| floodHistory | severely affected by Ohio River floods ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Old Shawneetown, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Shawneetown, Illinois
|
| historicSignificance | one of the earliest European-American settlements in Illinois ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early 19th-century river commerce
ⓘ
historic river port ⓘ historic town site of Shawneetown ⓘ relocation of town site due to floods ⓘ repeated flooding ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Ohio River
ⓘ
Ohio River ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Shawnee people
ⓘ
linked to:
Shawnee Nation
|
| partOf |
Southern Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
southern Illinois
|
| postalCode | 62984 ⓘ |
| region |
Ohio River Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio Valley region
|
| relocationReason | flooding of original riverfront town ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| transportHistory | important early river trade center ⓘ |
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: Shawneetown, Illinois Description of subject: Shawneetown, Illinois is a small historic town in southeastern Illinois along the Ohio River, known for its early 19th-century river commerce and repeated flooding that led to the relocation of much of the community.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shawneetown, Illinois
linked to: Shawneetown, Illinois
linked to: Shawneetown, Illinois