Troy, Illinois
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Troy, Illinois is a small suburban city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its residential communities and local parks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Troy, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212107 — 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: Troy, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, Troy, Illinois]
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A.
Troy Grove, Illinois
Troy Grove, Illinois is a small village in north-central Illinois best known as the birthplace of the legendary frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok.
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B.
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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C.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois is a city in St. Clair County that forms part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area and is known for its historic downtown and long-standing German-American heritage.
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D.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
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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: Troy, Illinois Target entity description: Troy, Illinois is a small suburban city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its residential communities and local parks.
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A.
Troy Grove, Illinois
Troy Grove, Illinois is a small village in north-central Illinois best known as the birthplace of the legendary frontiersman Wild Bill Hickok.
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B.
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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C.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois is a city in St. Clair County that forms part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area and is known for its historic downtown and long-standing German-American heritage.
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D.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
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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 (44)
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: Troy, Illinois Description of subject: Troy, Illinois is a small suburban city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its residential communities and local parks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.