McLeansboro, Illinois, United States
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McLeansboro, Illinois, United States, is a small rural city in Hamilton County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame NBA player and coach Jerry Sloan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McLeansboro, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11169659 — 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: McLeansboro, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Jerry Sloan, placeOfBirth, McLeansboro, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Murphysboro, Illinois, United States
Murphysboro is a small city in southern Illinois known as the hometown of Civil War general and influential U.S. politician John A. Logan.
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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.
Mascoutah, Illinois
Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
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D.
McCook, Illinois
McCook, Illinois is a small industrial suburb of Chicago known for its heavy manufacturing presence and rail-related industries.
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E.
Morrison, Illinois
Morrison, Illinois is a small city in Whiteside County that serves as the county seat and lies within northwestern 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: McLeansboro, Illinois, United States Target entity description: McLeansboro, Illinois, United States, is a small rural city in Hamilton County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame NBA player and coach Jerry Sloan.
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A.
Murphysboro, Illinois, United States
Murphysboro is a small city in southern Illinois known as the hometown of Civil War general and influential U.S. politician John A. Logan.
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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.
Mascoutah, Illinois
Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
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D.
McCook, Illinois
McCook, Illinois is a small industrial suburb of Chicago known for its heavy manufacturing presence and rail-related industries.
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E.
Morrison, Illinois
Morrison, Illinois is a small city in Whiteside County that serves as the county seat and lies within northwestern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | National Basketball Association history via Jerry Sloan ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryCode | US NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Hamilton County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | predominantly White population ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
rural community
ⓘ
small city ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
local retail services ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
residential neighborhoods
ⓘ
small-town downtown area ⓘ surrounding farmland ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandUse |
livestock farming
ⓘ
row-crop agriculture ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Jerry Sloan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| hasService |
local law enforcement
ⓘ
municipal government ⓘ public schools ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasSportsCulture | high school basketball tradition ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | local road network ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Hamilton County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the hometown of Jerry Sloan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hamilton County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| namedAfter | Allan McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hamilton County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| postalCodeType | ZIP code ⓘ |
| region | Downstate Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionalRole | local trade center for surrounding rural area ⓘ |
| roadAccess | Illinois state highways ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| stateAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| 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: McLeansboro, Illinois, United States Description of subject: McLeansboro, Illinois, United States, is a small rural city in Hamilton County best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame NBA player and coach Jerry Sloan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.