Illinois State Fair
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The Illinois State Fair is a large annual agricultural and entertainment festival held in Springfield, Illinois, featuring livestock shows, carnival rides, concerts, and traditional fair food.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Illinois State Fair canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12885969 — 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: Illinois State Fair Context triple: [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, basedOnExperience, Illinois State Fair]
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Wisconsin State Fair
The Wisconsin State Fair is a major annual agricultural and entertainment festival held in West Allis that features livestock shows, rides, concerts, and iconic foods like cream puffs.
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Nebraska State Fair
The Nebraska State Fair is a major annual agricultural and entertainment event showcasing the state's farming heritage, livestock, food, and family attractions.
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C.
Boone County Fair (Illinois)
The Boone County Fair (Illinois) is an annual agricultural and community fair held in Boone County, featuring livestock shows, carnival rides, competitions, and family-oriented entertainment.
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State Fair
State Fair is a 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film (adapted from the 1933 movie and novel) that follows an Iowa farm family’s romantic and personal adventures at their annual state fair.
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Iowa State Fairgrounds
The Iowa State Fairgrounds is a large event complex in Des Moines best known as the longtime home of the annual Iowa State Fair, one of the largest and most famous state fairs in the United States.
- 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: Illinois State Fair Target entity description: The Illinois State Fair is a large annual agricultural and entertainment festival held in Springfield, Illinois, featuring livestock shows, carnival rides, concerts, and traditional fair food.
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A.
Wisconsin State Fair
The Wisconsin State Fair is a major annual agricultural and entertainment festival held in West Allis that features livestock shows, rides, concerts, and iconic foods like cream puffs.
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B.
Nebraska State Fair
The Nebraska State Fair is a major annual agricultural and entertainment event showcasing the state's farming heritage, livestock, food, and family attractions.
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C.
Boone County Fair (Illinois)
The Boone County Fair (Illinois) is an annual agricultural and community fair held in Boone County, featuring livestock shows, carnival rides, competitions, and family-oriented entertainment.
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D.
State Fair
State Fair is a 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical film (adapted from the 1933 movie and novel) that follows an Iowa farm family’s romantic and personal adventures at their annual state fair.
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E.
Iowa State Fairgrounds
The Iowa State Fairgrounds is a large event complex in Des Moines best known as the longtime home of the annual Iowa State Fair, one of the largest and most famous state fairs in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural show
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annual event ⓘ state fair ⓘ |
| attracts |
visitors from across Illinois
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visitors from neighboring states ⓘ |
| city | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| duration | approximately 10 to 11 days ⓘ |
| features |
agricultural machinery displays
ⓘ
competitions for baked goods ⓘ competitions for crafts ⓘ competitions for horticulture ⓘ family entertainment ⓘ grandstand concerts ⓘ horse shows ⓘ livestock auctions ⓘ political speeches ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
agricultural fair
ⓘ
entertainment festival ⓘ |
| hasPart |
4-H competitions
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FFA competitions ⓘ agricultural exhibits ⓘ auto races ⓘ carnival rides ⓘ commercial exhibits ⓘ competitions ⓘ concerts ⓘ demolition derby ⓘ exhibitions ⓘ food vendors ⓘ livestock shows ⓘ midway ⓘ pageants ⓘ parades ⓘ traditional fair food ⓘ |
| inception | 1853 ⓘ |
| location | Illinois State Fairgrounds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer | Illinois Department of Agriculture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
major agricultural event in Illinois
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major tourism event in Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subjectOf | media coverage in Illinois ⓘ |
| typicalFood |
corn dogs
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deep-fried foods ⓘ funnel cakes ⓘ lemon shake-ups ⓘ |
| typicalStartMonth | August ⓘ |
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: Illinois State Fair Description of subject: The Illinois State Fair is a large annual agricultural and entertainment festival held in Springfield, Illinois, featuring livestock shows, carnival rides, concerts, and traditional fair food.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Springfield, Illinois