21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois
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The 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves Kankakee County and handles a broad range of civil and criminal cases within its jurisdiction.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6211539 — 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: 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois Context triple: [Kankakee County, Illinois, hasJudicialDistrict, 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois]
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A.
17th Judicial Circuit of Illinois
The 17th Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves Boone County and typically handles a wide range of civil, criminal, family, and probate cases within its jurisdiction.
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B.
22nd Judicial Circuit of Illinois
The 22nd Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves and administers justice for McHenry County within the Illinois court system.
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C.
Circuit Court of the State of Illinois
The Circuit Court of the State of Illinois is the state’s trial-level court of general jurisdiction, handling civil, criminal, family, and other cases through its various specialized divisions.
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D.
Circuit Court of Cook County
The Circuit Court of Cook County is one of the largest unified trial court systems in the United States, handling a broad range of civil, criminal, and administrative cases for Chicago and the surrounding Cook County area.
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E.
Central District of Illinois
The Central District of Illinois is a federal judicial district in Illinois that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the central portion of the state.
- 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: 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois Target entity description: The 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves Kankakee County and handles a broad range of civil and criminal cases within its jurisdiction.
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A.
17th Judicial Circuit of Illinois
The 17th Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves Boone County and typically handles a wide range of civil, criminal, family, and probate cases within its jurisdiction.
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B.
22nd Judicial Circuit of Illinois
The 22nd Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves and administers justice for McHenry County within the Illinois court system.
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C.
Circuit Court of the State of Illinois
The Circuit Court of the State of Illinois is the state’s trial-level court of general jurisdiction, handling civil, criminal, family, and other cases through its various specialized divisions.
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D.
Circuit Court of Cook County
The Circuit Court of Cook County is one of the largest unified trial court systems in the United States, handling a broad range of civil, criminal, and administrative cases for Chicago and the surrounding Cook County area.
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E.
Central District of Illinois
The Central District of Illinois is a federal judicial district in Illinois that handles U.S. district court cases arising from the central portion of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Illinois state trial court circuit ⓘ |
| appliesLaw |
Illinois state law
ⓘ
United States Constitution ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| courtType | trial court of general jurisdiction ⓘ |
| fundingSource |
State of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
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| governedBy | Illinois Supreme Court rules ⓘ |
| handles |
civil cases
ⓘ
criminal cases ⓘ family law cases ⓘ juvenile matters ⓘ probate matters ⓘ traffic cases ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
civil division
ⓘ
criminal division ⓘ family division ⓘ juvenile division ⓘ probate division ⓘ traffic division ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSeatIn | Kankakee, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision | Circuit Court of Kankakee County ⓘ |
| hearsAppealsTo |
Illinois Appellate Court
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois Appellate Court, First District
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| jurisdictionLevel | state ⓘ |
| locatedInJurisdiction | Kankakee County, Illinois ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois Circuit Court system
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois state court system
Judicial Branch of Illinois ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois state court system
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| serves | Kankakee County, Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois Description of subject: The 21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois is a state trial court circuit that serves Kankakee County and handles a broad range of civil and criminal cases within its jurisdiction.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.