Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border)
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Lemont Township is a suburban township in Cook County, Illinois, known for encompassing parts of the village of Lemont and areas along the Des Plaines River and Illinois & Michigan Canal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border) canonical | 1 |
| Lemont Township, Will County, Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2653809 — 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: Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border) Context triple: [Downers Grove Township, borderedBy, Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border)]
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A.
Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois
Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois is a large civil township in the south suburbs of Chicago that includes several communities such as South Holland and serves as a key local government unit in the region.
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B.
Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois
Leyden Township is a civil township in Cook County, Illinois, forming part of the suburban area northwest of Chicago and encompassing communities such as Franklin Park, Schiller Park, and parts of Rosemont.
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C.
Barrington Township, Cook County, Illinois
Barrington Township, Cook County, Illinois is a suburban township in northeastern Illinois that includes the village of Barrington and surrounding communities within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois
Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban civil township in northeastern Illinois that includes parts of communities such as Wheaton and Glen Ellyn within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois
Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois is a suburban township west of Chicago that includes several communities such as Maywood and serves as a local government unit within Cook County.
- 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: Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border) Target entity description: Lemont Township is a suburban township in Cook County, Illinois, known for encompassing parts of the village of Lemont and areas along the Des Plaines River and Illinois & Michigan Canal.
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A.
Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois
Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois is a large civil township in the south suburbs of Chicago that includes several communities such as South Holland and serves as a key local government unit in the region.
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B.
Leyden Township, Cook County, Illinois
Leyden Township is a civil township in Cook County, Illinois, forming part of the suburban area northwest of Chicago and encompassing communities such as Franklin Park, Schiller Park, and parts of Rosemont.
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C.
Barrington Township, Cook County, Illinois
Barrington Township, Cook County, Illinois is a suburban township in northeastern Illinois that includes the village of Barrington and surrounding communities within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois
Milton Township, DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban civil township in northeastern Illinois that includes parts of communities such as Wheaton and Glen Ellyn within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois
Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois is a suburban township west of Chicago that includes several communities such as Maywood and serves as a local government unit within Cook County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil township
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suburban township ⓘ |
| borderCharacteristic |
includes partial inter‑county borders
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partially coincident with municipal boundaries of Lemont ⓘ |
| contains |
residential suburbs of Chicago
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sections of the Des Plaines River valley ⓘ segments of the Illinois and Michigan Canal corridor ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county | Cook County, Illinois ⓘ |
| governmentType | township government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
suburban residential
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transportation corridors along river and canal ⓘ |
| hasPartialBorderWith |
Lemont Township, DuPage County, Illinois
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Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border) self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lemont Township, Will County, Illinois
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| isSuburbanTo | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Cook County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northeastern Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Lemont, Illinois
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surface form:
village of Lemont, Illinois
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| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partiallyEncompasses |
Lemont, Illinois
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surface form:
village of Lemont, Illinois
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| partOf | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| traversedByCanal | Illinois and Michigan Canal ⓘ |
| traversedByRiver | Des Plaines River ⓘ |
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: Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border) Description of subject: Lemont Township is a suburban township in Cook County, Illinois, known for encompassing parts of the village of Lemont and areas along the Des Plaines River and Illinois & Michigan Canal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border)
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hasPartialBorderWith
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Lemont Township (Cook County, partial border)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Lemont Township, Will County, Illinois