Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois
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The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois is the drab, bureaucratic tax-processing facility that serves as the primary backdrop for David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel "The Pale King."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12885905 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois Context triple: [The Pale King, mainSetting, Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois]
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Illinois Department of Revenue
The Illinois Department of Revenue is the state agency responsible for administering Illinois’ tax laws, collecting revenues, and overseeing related fiscal and regulatory functions.
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B.
Peoria, Illinois, United States
Peoria, Illinois, United States is a mid-sized city along the Illinois River known historically as a manufacturing and transportation hub and often cited as a barometer of mainstream American tastes.
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C.
Indiana Tax Court
The Indiana Tax Court is a specialized state-level court that hears and decides disputes involving Indiana tax laws and tax assessments.
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D.
East Peoria, Illinois
East Peoria, Illinois is a city in central Illinois located across the Illinois River from Peoria, known for its manufacturing history and as home to major Caterpillar Inc. facilities.
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E.
Blair v. Commissioner
Blair v. Commissioner is a U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that addressed the assignment of income doctrine, holding that a taxpayer who assigns a beneficial interest in a trust also shifts the tax liability on the income from that interest.
- 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: Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois Target entity description: The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois is the drab, bureaucratic tax-processing facility that serves as the primary backdrop for David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel "The Pale King."
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A.
Illinois Department of Revenue
The Illinois Department of Revenue is the state agency responsible for administering Illinois’ tax laws, collecting revenues, and overseeing related fiscal and regulatory functions.
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B.
Peoria, Illinois, United States
Peoria, Illinois, United States is a mid-sized city along the Illinois River known historically as a manufacturing and transportation hub and often cited as a barometer of mainstream American tastes.
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C.
Indiana Tax Court
The Indiana Tax Court is a specialized state-level court that hears and decides disputes involving Indiana tax laws and tax assessments.
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D.
East Peoria, Illinois
East Peoria, Illinois is a city in central Illinois located across the Illinois River from Peoria, known for its manufacturing history and as home to major Caterpillar Inc. facilities.
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E.
Blair v. Commissioner
Blair v. Commissioner is a U.S. Supreme Court tax law case that addressed the assignment of income doctrine, holding that a taxpayer who assigns a beneficial interest in a trust also shifts the tax liability on the income from that interest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional organization
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fictional setting ⓘ |
| appearsInPublicationYearOfWork | 2011 ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Pale King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | David Foster Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bureaucratic
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drab ⓘ |
| functionInFiction | tax-processing facility ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkItAppearsIn | literary fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkItAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Peoria, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| name | Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central workplace setting ⓘ |
| organizationTypeInFiction | Internal Revenue Service office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySettingOf | The Pale King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedRealWorldInstitution | Internal Revenue Service GENERATED ⓘ |
| shortName | IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| thematicAssociation |
American tax system
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boredom ⓘ bureaucracy ⓘ routine labor ⓘ |
| workPublisher | Little, Brown and Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workStatus | unfinished novel ⓘ |
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: Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois Description of subject: The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois is the drab, bureaucratic tax-processing facility that serves as the primary backdrop for David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel "The Pale King."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Pale King
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mainSetting
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Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois
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