McLean County, Illinois
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McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McLean County, Illinois canonical | 15 |
| McLean Co., IL | 1 |
| McLean County | 1 |
| McLean County government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1127293 — 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: McLean County, Illinois Context triple: [Champaign County, Illinois, borderedBy, McLean County, Illinois]
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Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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B.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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Sangamon County, Illinois
Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
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D.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of 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: McLean County, Illinois Target entity description: McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
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A.
Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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B.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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C.
Sangamon County, Illinois
Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
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D.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: McLean County, Illinois Description of subject: McLean County, Illinois is a largely rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and the city of Bloomington as its county seat.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
McLean County government
this entity surface form:
McLean Co., IL
this entity surface form:
McLean County
subject surface form:
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery
subject surface form:
Evergreen Memorial Cemetery