Granite City, Illinois
E174774
Granite City, Illinois is an industrial city in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its steel manufacturing and blue-collar heritage.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Granite City, Illinois canonical | 7 |
| Granite City, Illinois, United States | 1 |
| The Granite City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T574046 — 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: Granite City, Illinois Context triple: [Illinois, hasMajorCity, Granite City, Illinois]
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A.
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known historically as an early center of education and abolitionist activity.
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B.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois is a mid-sized city southwest of Chicago known for its historic prison, riverfront, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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C.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois is a city in St. Clair County that forms part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area and is known for its historic downtown and long-standing German-American heritage.
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D.
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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E.
Waukegan, Illinois
Waukegan, Illinois is an industrial port city on Lake Michigan in Lake County that serves as a northern suburb within the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Granite City, Illinois Target entity description: Granite City, Illinois is an industrial city in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its steel manufacturing and blue-collar heritage.
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A.
Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville, Illinois is a small central Illinois city known historically as an early center of education and abolitionist activity.
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B.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet, Illinois is a mid-sized city southwest of Chicago known for its historic prison, riverfront, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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C.
Belleville, Illinois
Belleville, Illinois is a city in St. Clair County that forms part of the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area and is known for its historic downtown and long-standing German-American heritage.
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D.
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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E.
Waukegan, Illinois
Waukegan, Illinois is an industrial port city on Lake Michigan in Lake County that serves as a northern suburb within the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Mississippi River
ⓘ
St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
|
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | blue-collar workforce ⓘ |
| economy | manufacturing-based economy ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 420 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Niedringhaus brothers ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasEconomicCharacteristic |
industrial employment base
ⓘ
working-class community ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
industrial parks
ⓘ
steel production facilities ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialFacility | Granite City Works steel mill ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
heavy industrial land use
ⓘ
residential neighborhoods ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Granite City Community Unit School District 9 ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
proximity to Interstate 255
ⓘ
proximity to Interstate 270 ⓘ rail infrastructure ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
manufacturing
ⓘ
metalworking ⓘ steel manufacturing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blue-collar heritage
ⓘ
industrial economy ⓘ steel mills ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Louis metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater St. Louis
Metro East ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
East St. Louis, Illinois
ⓘ
Madison, Illinois, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Madison, Illinois
Venice, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mississippi River floodplain ⓘ |
| namedAfter | graniteware kitchen utensils ⓘ |
| partOf | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea |
St. Louis metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area
|
| partOfUrbanArea |
St. Louis metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri–Illinois urban area
|
| postalCode | 62040 ⓘ |
| region | American Bottoms ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: Granite City, Illinois Description of subject: Granite City, Illinois is an industrial city in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its steel manufacturing and blue-collar heritage.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Granite City, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
The Granite City