New Salem, Illinois
E832738
New Salem, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Pike County known primarily as a rural settlement in western Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Salem, Illinois canonical | 3 |
| New Salem | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9976263 — 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: New Salem, Illinois Context triple: [Pike County, Illinois, containsSettlement, New Salem, Illinois]
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A.
Mount Vernon, Illinois
Mount Vernon, Illinois is a small city in southern Illinois that serves as the county seat of Jefferson County and a regional hub for transportation and commerce.
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B.
Monticello, Illinois
Monticello, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known as the administrative and commercial hub of Piatt County.
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C.
Sauk Village, Illinois
Sauk Village, Illinois is a small residential community located in the south suburban region of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois is a small residential village in Kane County known for its wooded neighborhoods and suburban character northwest of Chicago.
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E.
Savoy, Illinois
Savoy, Illinois is a small village in Champaign County that functions as a residential suburb of the nearby cities of Champaign and Urbana.
- 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: New Salem, Illinois Target entity description: New Salem, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Pike County known primarily as a rural settlement in western Illinois.
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A.
Mount Vernon, Illinois
Mount Vernon, Illinois is a small city in southern Illinois that serves as the county seat of Jefferson County and a regional hub for transportation and commerce.
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B.
Monticello, Illinois
Monticello, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known as the administrative and commercial hub of Piatt County.
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C.
Sauk Village, Illinois
Sauk Village, Illinois is a small residential community located in the south suburban region of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois
Sleepy Hollow, Illinois is a small residential village in Kane County known for its wooded neighborhoods and suburban character northwest of Chicago.
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E.
Savoy, Illinois
Savoy, Illinois is a small village in Champaign County that functions as a residential suburb of the nearby cities of Champaign and Urbana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Pike County, Illinois ⓘ |
| governingBody | Pike County authorities ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentType | county-level administration ⓘ |
| hasName |
New Salem
ⓘ
linked to:
New Salem, Illinois
|
| hasOfficialName | New Salem, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryCharacteristic |
small rural settlement
ⓘ
unincorporated area ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| isCensusDesignatedPlace | false ⓘ |
| isIncorporated | false ⓘ |
| isNamedEntity | true ⓘ |
| isRuralSettlement | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Pike County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision |
U.S. state of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
|
| locatedInGeographicRegion | western Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | western Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Pike County, Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: New Salem, Illinois Description of subject: New Salem, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Pike County known primarily as a rural settlement in western Illinois.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Salem, Illinois