Edwardsville, Illinois
E294946
Edwardsville, Illinois is a historic city in Madison County that serves as a major suburb of St. Louis and the home of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edwardsville, Illinois canonical | 12 |
| Edwardsville, Illinois, United States | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1925541 — 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: Edwardsville, Illinois Context triple: [Daniel Pope Cook, residence, Edwardsville, Illinois]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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D.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
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E.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
- 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: Edwardsville, Illinois Target entity description: Edwardsville, Illinois is a historic city in Madison County that serves as a major suburb of St. Louis and the home of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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D.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
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E.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Edwardsville, Illinois Description of subject: Edwardsville, Illinois is a historic city in Madison County that serves as a major suburb of St. Louis and the home of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
subject surface form:
Southern Illinois
subject surface form:
Harry Gallatin
this entity surface form:
Edwardsville, Illinois, United States
subject surface form:
Roxana, Illinois