Hillsboro, Illinois, United States
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Hillsboro, Illinois, United States is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Hughes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hillsboro, Illinois, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10070698 — 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: Hillsboro, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Matt Hughes, placeOfBirth, Hillsboro, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Hines, Illinois, United States
Hines, Illinois, United States is a community in Cook County best known for hosting the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, a major veterans' medical center near Chicago.
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B.
Union Hill, Illinois
Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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C.
Hillside, Illinois
Hillside, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County near Chicago, known for its residential character and proximity to major highways and neighboring communities.
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D.
Hickory Hills, Illinois
Hickory Hills, Illinois is a suburban city in Cook County, southwest of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major highways and forest preserves.
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E.
Oakwood Hills, Illinois
Oakwood Hills, Illinois is a small residential village in McHenry County known for its wooded surroundings and proximity to lakes in northeastern Illinois.
- 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: Hillsboro, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Hillsboro, Illinois, United States is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Hughes.
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A.
Hines, Illinois, United States
Hines, Illinois, United States is a community in Cook County best known for hosting the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, a major veterans' medical center near Chicago.
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B.
Union Hill, Illinois
Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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C.
Hillside, Illinois
Hillside, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County near Chicago, known for its residential character and proximity to major highways and neighboring communities.
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D.
Hickory Hills, Illinois
Hickory Hills, Illinois is a suburban city in Cook County, southwest of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to major highways and forest preserves.
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E.
Oakwood Hills, Illinois
Oakwood Hills, Illinois is a small residential village in McHenry County known for its wooded surroundings and proximity to lakes in northeastern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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mixed martial artist ⓘ municipality ⓘ political figure ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county | Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Oak Grove Cemetery (Hillsboro, Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Hillsboro High School (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 620 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Glenn Shoals Lake
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hillsboro Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Hillsboro Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 2394352 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Hillsboro Historic Commercial District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial
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light industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | approximately 39.16°N ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | approximately 89.49°W ⓘ |
| hasNamedFor | geographic hills in the area ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Litchfield, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taylor Springs, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNewspaper | The Hillsboro Journal-News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Ken Mehlman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matt Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 62049 ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Hillsboro Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | FIPS code 17-34563 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | small city ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 127
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWaterBody | Shoal Creek (tributary of the Kaskaskia River) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldPosition | Chairman of the Republican National Committee ⓘ |
| heldTitle | UFC Welterweight Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBirthplaceOf | Matt Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNortheastOf | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea | Litchfield Micropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Hillsboro, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Hillsboro, Illinois, United States is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Hughes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.