Bethalto, Illinois
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Bethalto, Illinois is a small village in Madison County that serves as a residential community near the St. Louis metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bethalto, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212108 — 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: Bethalto, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, Bethalto, Illinois]
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A.
Chillicothe, Illinois
Chillicothe, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known as a residential community within the greater Peoria 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.
Mascoutah, Illinois
Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
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D.
Alton, Illinois
Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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E.
Edwardsville
Edwardsville is a small borough in northeastern Pennsylvania, known as a residential community within the Wyoming Valley near the city of Wilkes-Barre.
- 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: Bethalto, Illinois Target entity description: Bethalto, Illinois is a small village in Madison County that serves as a residential community near the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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A.
Chillicothe, Illinois
Chillicothe, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois situated along the Illinois River, known as a residential community within the greater Peoria 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.
Mascoutah, Illinois
Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
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D.
Alton, Illinois
Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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E.
Edwardsville
Edwardsville is a small borough in northeastern Pennsylvania, known as a residential community within the Wyoming Valley near the city of Wilkes-Barre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-05586 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2398133 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasFeature | residential community ⓘ |
| hasMetropolitanRegion | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
St. Louis Regional Airport
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis Downtown Airport
|
| leaderTitle | Mayor ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Madison County, Illinois ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInTimeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| near |
Alton, Illinois
ⓘ
St. Louis, Missouri ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| partOf |
Greater St. Louis
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| settlementType | village ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
| timeZoneStandard | CST ⓘ |
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: Bethalto, Illinois Description of subject: Bethalto, Illinois is a small village in Madison County that serves as a residential community near the St. Louis metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.