Ursa, Illinois
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Ursa, Illinois is a small rural village in western Illinois situated along the Mississippi River in Adams County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursa, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9939806 — 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: Ursa, Illinois Context triple: [Adams County, Illinois, containsVillage, Ursa, Illinois]
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Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Sibley, Illinois
Sibley, Illinois is a small rural village located in Ford County in central Illinois, known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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C.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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D.
Eureka, Illinois
Eureka, Illinois is a small central Illinois village best known as the home of Eureka College, where Ronald Reagan studied.
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E.
Laona, Illinois
Laona, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Illinois, United States, known as the birthplace of social reformer and Hull House co-founder Ellen Gates Starr.
- 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: Ursa, Illinois Target entity description: Ursa, Illinois is a small rural village in western Illinois situated along the Mississippi River in Adams County.
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A.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Sibley, Illinois
Sibley, Illinois is a small rural village located in Ford County in central Illinois, known for its agricultural surroundings and tight-knit community.
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C.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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D.
Eureka, Illinois
Eureka, Illinois is a small central Illinois village best known as the home of Eureka College, where Ronald Reagan studied.
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E.
Laona, Illinois
Laona, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Illinois, United States, known as the birthplace of social reformer and Hull House co-founder Ellen Gates Starr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Ursa, Illinois Description of subject: Ursa, Illinois is a small rural village in western Illinois situated along the Mississippi River in Adams County.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.