Steger, Illinois
E263857
Steger, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area that spans both Will and Cook counties.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steger, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T851159 — 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: Steger, Illinois Context triple: [Will County, Illinois, containsVillage, Steger, Illinois]
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A.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
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B.
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock, Illinois is a historic small city in northern Illinois known for its preserved 19th-century downtown square and role as the county seat of McHenry County.
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C.
Johnsburg, Illinois
Johnsburg, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Wadsworth, Illinois
Wadsworth, Illinois is a small rural village in northeastern Illinois known for its open spaces, equestrian properties, and proximity to the Wisconsin border.
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E.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
- 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: Steger, Illinois Target entity description: Steger, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area that spans both Will and Cook counties.
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A.
Matteson, Illinois
Matteson, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities and retail centers.
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B.
Woodstock, Illinois
Woodstock, Illinois is a historic small city in northern Illinois known for its preserved 19th-century downtown square and role as the county seat of McHenry County.
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C.
Johnsburg, Illinois
Johnsburg, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Wadsworth, Illinois
Wadsworth, Illinois is a small rural village in northeastern Illinois known for its open spaces, equestrian properties, and proximity to the Wisconsin border.
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E.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 708 ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Chicago Heights, Illinois
ⓘ
Crete, Illinois ⓘ Park Forest, Illinois ⓘ South Chicago Heights, Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county |
Cook County, Illinois
ⓘ
Will County, Illinois ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-72588 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2399890 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Chicago metropolitan area communities
ⓘ
Villages in Cook County, Illinois ⓘ Villages in Illinois ⓘ Villages in Will County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasLeaderTitle | Mayor ⓘ |
| hasSubdivision |
Cook County portion of Steger, Illinois
ⓘ
Will County portion of Steger, Illinois ⓘ |
| isSuburbOf |
Chicago
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
|
| locatedIn | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John V. Steger ⓘ |
| originalName | Columbia Heights ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
south suburban Chicago ⓘ |
| postalCode | 60411 ⓘ |
| settlementType | suburban village ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: Steger, Illinois Description of subject: Steger, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area that spans both Will and Cook counties.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.