Spring Valley, Illinois
E901759
Spring Valley, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and location along the Illinois River near Peru.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Spring Valley, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10186819 — 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: Spring Valley, Illinois Context triple: [Peru, Illinois, hasNearbyCity, Spring Valley, Illinois]
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A.
Fox Valley, Illinois
Fox Valley, Illinois is a suburban region along the Fox River in northeastern Illinois, known for its chain of historic riverfront communities, parks, and mixed residential and commercial development.
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B.
Valley City, Illinois
Valley City, Illinois is a very small village in western Illinois known for its location along the Illinois River and its extremely low population.
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C.
Western Springs, Illinois
Western Springs, Illinois is a suburban village west of Chicago known for its affluent residential character, strong public schools, and historic water tower landmark.
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D.
Riverwoods, Illinois
Riverwoods, Illinois is a small, affluent suburban village in Lake County known for its heavily wooded residential areas and proximity to Chicago’s North Shore communities.
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E.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
- 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: Spring Valley, Illinois Target entity description: Spring Valley, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and location along the Illinois River near Peru.
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A.
Fox Valley, Illinois
Fox Valley, Illinois is a suburban region along the Fox River in northeastern Illinois, known for its chain of historic riverfront communities, parks, and mixed residential and commercial development.
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B.
Valley City, Illinois
Valley City, Illinois is a very small village in western Illinois known for its location along the Illinois River and its extremely low population.
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C.
Western Springs, Illinois
Western Springs, Illinois is a suburban village west of Chicago known for its affluent residential character, strong public schools, and historic water tower landmark.
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D.
Riverwoods, Illinois
Riverwoods, Illinois is a small, affluent suburban village in Lake County known for its heavily wooded residential areas and proximity to Chicago’s North Shore communities.
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E.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
779
ⓘ
815 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Bureau County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationUnit | feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-72088 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2396043 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasFeature | riverfront location on the Illinois River ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | coal mining community ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
LaSalle, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oglesby, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 89
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry | coal mining ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | LaSalle-Peru micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | north-central Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneUTCOffset | UTC−6 ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZoneUTCOffsetDST | UTC−5 ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Illinois River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Peru, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Illinois River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea | Bureau County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 61362 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Spring Valley, Illinois Description of subject: Spring Valley, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois known historically for its coal mining roots and location along the Illinois River near Peru.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.