Urbana, Illinois, United States
E2028
Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Urbana, Illinois | 89 |
| Urbana, Illinois, United States canonical | 18 |
| Urbana | 7 |
| City of Urbana | 2 |
| Urbana–Champaign | 2 |
| Urbana-Champaign | 1 |
| Urbana–Champaign, Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T26823 — 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: Urbana, Illinois, United States Context triple: [John Bardeen, workLocation, Urbana, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States is a major Midwestern metropolis known for its influential architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a historic center of industry and commerce.
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B.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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C.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Council Bluffs is a city in western Iowa, located along the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska, known historically as a major railroad and transportation hub.
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D.
Ithaca, New York, United States
Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
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E.
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, is a major Midwestern city known for its jazz heritage, distinctive barbecue cuisine, and significant role in American political history.
- 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: Urbana, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
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A.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States is a major Midwestern metropolis known for its influential architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a historic center of industry and commerce.
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B.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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C.
Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States of America
Council Bluffs is a city in western Iowa, located along the Missouri River across from Omaha, Nebraska, known historically as a major railroad and transportation hub.
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D.
Ithaca, New York, United States
Ithaca, New York, United States is a small city in the Finger Lakes region best known as the home of Cornell University and a historic center of academic and scientific research.
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E.
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, is a major Midwestern city known for its jazz heritage, distinctive barbecue cuisine, and significant role in American political history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Urbana, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
Referenced by (120)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
Mechanical Engineering Building, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
College of Fine and Applied Arts performance facilities
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
Music Building, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
subject surface form:
United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois
Krannert Pavilion (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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locatedIn
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
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this entity surface form:
Urbana, Illinois