Cahokia Heights, Illinois
E660417
Cahokia Heights, Illinois is a small city in St. Clair County, part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cahokia Heights, Illinois canonical | 7 |
| Cahokia, Illinois | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7371606 — 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: Cahokia Heights, Illinois Context triple: [St. Louis Downtown Airport, locatedIn, Cahokia Heights, Illinois]
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A.
Prophetstown, Illinois
Prophetstown, Illinois is a small historic city in Whiteside County known for its proximity to the Rock River and the nearby Prophetstown State Park.
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B.
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock, Illinois is a historic small city in northern Illinois known for its preserved 19th-century downtown square and role as the county seat of McHenry County.
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C.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
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D.
Cairo, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois is a historic river town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers that played a significant role in regional trade, transportation, and Civil War history.
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E.
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.
- 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: Cahokia Heights, Illinois Target entity description: Cahokia Heights, Illinois is a small city in St. Clair County, part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.
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A.
Prophetstown, Illinois
Prophetstown, Illinois is a small historic city in Whiteside County known for its proximity to the Rock River and the nearby Prophetstown State Park.
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B.
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock, Illinois is a historic small city in northern Illinois known for its preserved 19th-century downtown square and role as the county seat of McHenry County.
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C.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
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D.
Cairo, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois is a historic river town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers that played a significant role in regional trade, transportation, and Civil War history.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Dupo, Illinois
ⓘ
East St. Louis, Illinois ⓘ Fairmont City, Illinois ⓘ Sauget, Illinois ⓘ Washington Park, Illinois ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | St. Clair County, Illinois ⓘ |
| demographicsFeature | predominantly African American population ⓘ |
| economyIncludes |
light industry
ⓘ
residential services ⓘ small retail businesses ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Alorton, Illinois
ⓘ
Cahokia, Illinois ⓘ
linked to:
Cahokia Heights, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasChallenge |
economic disinvestment
ⓘ
infrastructure maintenance funding constraints ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalIssue | chronic flooding ⓘ |
| hasFeature | low-lying floodplain terrain ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureIssue | aging sewer system ⓘ |
| hasLandmark | Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (nearby) ⓘ |
| hasMayor | Curtis McCall Sr. ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Cahokia Unit School District 187 ⓘ |
| hasTransportationAccess |
Illinois Route 157
ⓘ
Illinois Route 3 ⓘ Interstate 255 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
St. Louis–St. Charles–Farmington, MO–IL Combined Statistical Area ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
American Bottom region
ⓘ
Greater St. Louis ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
Metro East ⓘ United States Census Bureau-defined urban area of St. Louis ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Illinois side of the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois’ 12th congressional district
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois’s 12th congressional district
St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62206 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
U.S. Department of Justice environmental justice investigation
ⓘ
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement actions ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
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: Cahokia Heights, Illinois Description of subject: Cahokia Heights, Illinois is a small city in St. Clair County, part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
linked to: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
subject linked to:
CPS
linked to: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
subject linked to:
KCPS
linked to: Cahokia Heights, Illinois
subject linked to:
St. Clair County