Alton, Illinois
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Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alton, Illinois canonical | 16 |
| Alton, Illinois, United States | 7 |
| Alton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T428465 — 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: Alton, Illinois Context triple: [Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, hasOfficeIn, Alton, Illinois]
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A.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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B.
Harvey, Illinois
Harvey, Illinois is a small, historically industrial suburb located south of Chicago.
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C.
Lansing, Illinois
Lansing, Illinois is a suburban village in the south suburbs of Chicago known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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D.
Bartlett, Illinois
Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
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E.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
- 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: Alton, Illinois Target entity description: Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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A.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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B.
Harvey, Illinois
Harvey, Illinois is a small, historically industrial suburb located south of Chicago.
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C.
Lansing, Illinois
Lansing, Illinois is a suburban village in the south suburbs of Chicago known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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D.
Bartlett, Illinois
Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
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E.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Illinois River
ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois River (nearby confluence)
Mississippi River ⓘ Missouri state line (across river) ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | October 15, 1858 ⓘ |
| elevation | about 528 feet ⓘ |
| foundedAsTown | 1837 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
limestone river bluffs
ⓘ
riverfront area ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Downtown Alton historic district ⓘ |
| hasHistoricEvent | site of the last Lincoln–Douglas debate ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
manufacturing
ⓘ
river commerce ⓘ tourism ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Alton National Cemetery
ⓘ
Alton Prison site ⓘ Argosy Casino Alton ⓘ Clark Bridge ⓘ Lovejoy Monument ⓘ Piasa Bird mural ⓘ Robert Wadlow statue ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Elijah P. Lovejoy
ⓘ
surface form:
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Miles Davis ⓘ Robert Wadlow ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Civil War history
ⓘ
abolitionist history ⓘ industrial history ⓘ limestone bluffs ⓘ transportation hub role ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
southern Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Southwestern Illinois
|
| locatedNear |
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
|
| locatedOnRiver | Mississippi River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alton, Hampshire, England ⓘ |
| partOf |
St. Louis metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater St. Louis metropolitan area
|
| roleInHistory |
Union prison site during the American Civil War
ⓘ
abolitionist press center in the 1830s ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Amtrak
ⓘ
Illinois Route 100 ⓘ Illinois Route 3 ⓘ U.S. Route 67 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportationMode |
highway transportation
ⓘ
rail transportation ⓘ river transportation ⓘ |
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: Alton, Illinois Description of subject: Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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subject surface form:
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Alton, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Alton, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Alton, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Alton, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Alton, Illinois, United States