Ransom, Illinois
E236935
Ransom, Illinois is a small village located in LaSalle County in the northern part of the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ransom, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2144184 — 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: Ransom, Illinois Context triple: [LaSalle County, Illinois, containsSettlement, Ransom, Illinois]
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A.
Roselle, Illinois
Roselle, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and location within DuPage and Cook counties.
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B.
Robbins, Illinois
Robbins, Illinois is a small, historically significant village in Cook County known as one of the oldest predominantly African-American incorporated communities in the United States.
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C.
Burnham, Illinois
Burnham, Illinois is a small village in Cook County near Chicago, known for its industrial landscape and proximity to the Calumet River and Lake Calumet.
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D.
Darien, Illinois
Darien, Illinois is a suburban city located in DuPage County, west of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and parkland.
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E.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
- 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: Ransom, Illinois Target entity description: Ransom, Illinois is a small village located in LaSalle County in the northern part of the state.
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A.
Roselle, Illinois
Roselle, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and location within DuPage and Cook counties.
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B.
Robbins, Illinois
Robbins, Illinois is a small, historically significant village in Cook County known as one of the oldest predominantly African-American incorporated communities in the United States.
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C.
Burnham, Illinois
Burnham, Illinois is a small village in Cook County near Chicago, known for its industrial landscape and proximity to the Calumet River and Lake Calumet.
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D.
Darien, Illinois
Darien, Illinois is a suburban city located in DuPage County, west of Chicago, known for its residential neighborhoods and parkland.
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E.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
|
| county | LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasName | Ransom ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Village of Ransom ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| isIncorporatedPlace | true ⓘ |
| isLocatedInNorthernPartOfState | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInRegion |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
northern Illinois ⓘ |
| partOf |
Illinois
ⓘ
LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| postalAddressRegion | Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
| timeZoneStandard | CST ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | −5 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandard | −6 ⓘ |
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: Ransom, Illinois Description of subject: Ransom, Illinois is a small village located in LaSalle County in the northern part of the state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.