Illinois Department of Corrections
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The Illinois Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult prisons, managing incarcerated individuals, and administering correctional programs in Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Illinois state prison system | 4 |
| Illinois Department of Corrections canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2958841 — 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: Illinois Department of Corrections Context triple: [Illinois executive branch, includes, Illinois Department of Corrections]
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A.
Indiana Department of Correction
The Indiana Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, offender rehabilitation, and community supervision within Indiana.
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B.
Iowa Department of Corrections
The Iowa Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, community-based corrections, and offender rehabilitation within Iowa’s criminal justice system.
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C.
Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet
The Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet was a historic maximum-security prison in Joliet, Illinois, known for housing notable inmates and for its iconic limestone architecture featured in popular culture.
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D.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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E.
Cook County Jail
Cook County Jail is a large correctional facility in Chicago, Illinois, known as one of the largest single-site jails in the United States.
- 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: Illinois Department of Corrections Target entity description: The Illinois Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult prisons, managing incarcerated individuals, and administering correctional programs in Illinois.
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A.
Indiana Department of Correction
The Indiana Department of Correction is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult and juvenile correctional facilities, offender rehabilitation, and community supervision within Indiana.
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B.
Iowa Department of Corrections
The Iowa Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing prisons, community-based corrections, and offender rehabilitation within Iowa’s criminal justice system.
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C.
Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet
The Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet was a historic maximum-security prison in Joliet, Illinois, known for housing notable inmates and for its iconic limestone architecture featured in popular culture.
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D.
Clinton Correctional Facility
Clinton Correctional Facility is a maximum-security state prison in Dannemora, New York, known for housing high-profile inmates and its long-standing role in the New York prison system.
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E.
Cook County Jail
Cook County Jail is a large correctional facility in Chicago, Illinois, known as one of the largest single-site jails in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
government agency
ⓘ
state corrections department ⓘ |
| abbreviation | IDOC ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice
ⓘ
Illinois Prisoner Review Board ⓘ local law enforcement agencies in Illinois ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employs |
administrative staff
ⓘ
correctional officers ⓘ counselors ⓘ healthcare staff ⓘ parole agents ⓘ |
| goal |
offender rehabilitation
ⓘ
public safety ⓘ successful reentry of offenders into the community ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Administrative Services Division
ⓘ
Operations Division ⓘ Parole Division ⓘ Programs and Support Services Division ⓘ |
| hasLegalAuthority | Illinois Compiled Statutes related to corrections ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| industry |
corrections
ⓘ
criminal justice ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Illinois
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatesIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| oversees |
Illinois parole system
ⓘ
Illinois state prisons ⓘ state-operated adult correctional centers in Illinois ⓘ |
| partOf | Illinois criminal justice system ⓘ |
| provides |
educational programs for inmates
ⓘ
mental health services for inmates ⓘ reentry planning services ⓘ substance abuse treatment programs ⓘ vocational training for inmates ⓘ |
| regulates | conditions of confinement in Illinois state prisons ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
administration of correctional programs in Illinois
ⓘ
adult prisons in Illinois ⓘ community corrections programs in Illinois ⓘ management of incarcerated adults in Illinois ⓘ parole services in Illinois ⓘ reentry programs for offenders in Illinois ⓘ state correctional facilities in Illinois ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Government of Illinois
ⓘ
Government of Illinois ⓘ
surface form:
Illinois state government
|
| typeOfOrganization | public sector organization ⓘ |
| website | https://www2.illinois.gov/idoc ⓘ |
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: Illinois Department of Corrections Description of subject: The Illinois Department of Corrections is the state agency responsible for overseeing adult prisons, managing incarcerated individuals, and administering correctional programs in Illinois.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Illinois state prison system
this entity surface form:
Illinois state prison system
this entity surface form:
Illinois state prison system
this entity surface form:
Illinois state prison system