Plano, Illinois
E149019
Plano, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known for its role in the Chicago metropolitan area’s outer suburbs and as a filming location for the movie "Man of Steel."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Plano, Illinois canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1036459 — 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: Plano, Illinois Context triple: [Kendall County, Illinois, containsSettlement, Plano, Illinois]
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A.
Plano, Texas
Plano, Texas is a major suburban city in North Texas known for its affluent neighborhoods, strong public schools, and concentration of corporate headquarters.
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B.
Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie is a mid-sized suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its family attractions, parks, and growing residential communities.
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C.
Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton, Illinois is a suburban city west of Chicago known for its historic downtown, strong public schools, and as the home of Wheaton College.
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D.
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, commercial districts, and former Arlington International Racecourse.
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E.
Naperville, Illinois
Naperville, Illinois is a large suburban city in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its high quality of life, strong schools, and vibrant downtown along the Riverwalk.
- 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: Plano, Illinois Target entity description: Plano, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known for its role in the Chicago metropolitan area’s outer suburbs and as a filming location for the movie "Man of Steel."
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A.
Plano, Texas
Plano, Texas is a major suburban city in North Texas known for its affluent neighborhoods, strong public schools, and concentration of corporate headquarters.
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B.
Grand Prairie
Grand Prairie is a mid-sized suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its family attractions, parks, and growing residential communities.
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C.
Wheaton, Illinois
Wheaton, Illinois is a suburban city west of Chicago known for its historic downtown, strong public schools, and as the home of Wheaton College.
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D.
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Arlington Heights, Illinois is a suburban village northwest of Chicago known for its residential communities, commercial districts, and former Arlington International Racecourse.
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E.
Naperville, Illinois
Naperville, Illinois is a large suburban city in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its high quality of life, strong schools, and vibrant downtown along the Riverwalk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Plano, Illinois Description of subject: Plano, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known for its role in the Chicago metropolitan area’s outer suburbs and as a filming location for the movie "Man of Steel."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Fox River (Illinois–Wisconsin)