Cullom, Illinois, United States
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Cullom, Illinois, United States, is a small rural village in Livingston County best known as the birthplace of chemist and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cullom, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3483469 — 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: Cullom, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Arnold O. Beckman, placeOfBirth, Cullom, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Taylorville, Illinois, United States
Taylorville, Illinois, United States, is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Edward M. Purcell.
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B.
Coleta, Illinois
Coleta, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County that forms part of the Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area in northwestern Illinois.
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C.
Cedarville, Illinois, United States
Cedarville, Illinois, United States is a small village best known as the birthplace of social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jane Addams.
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D.
Allerton, Illinois
Allerton, Illinois is a small village located in eastern Illinois, known for its rural character within Champaign County.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign 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: Cullom, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Cullom, Illinois, United States, is a small rural village in Livingston County best known as the birthplace of chemist and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman.
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A.
Taylorville, Illinois, United States
Taylorville, Illinois, United States, is a small Midwestern city best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Edward M. Purcell.
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B.
Coleta, Illinois
Coleta, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County that forms part of the Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area in northwestern Illinois.
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C.
Cedarville, Illinois, United States
Cedarville, Illinois, United States is a small village best known as the birthplace of social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jane Addams.
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D.
Allerton, Illinois
Allerton, Illinois is a small village located in eastern Illinois, known for its rural character within Champaign County.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf |
Arnold O. Beckman
ⓘ
surface form:
Arnold Orville Beckman
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Livingston County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
779
ⓘ
815 ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17-17888 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 2398700 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasIncorporationStatus | incorporated village ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | approximately 40.88°N ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | approximately 88.27°W ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson |
Arnold O. Beckman
ⓘ
surface form:
Arnold Orville Beckman
|
| hasPostalCode | 60929 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicCharacter | agricultural ⓘ |
| hasSettlementName | Cullom ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural village ⓘ |
| isInRegion | Central Illinois ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Livingston County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Vermilion River (Illinois)
ⓘ
surface form:
South Fork Vermilion River
|
| namedAfter | Shelby Moore Cullom ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Census Bureau statistical area for Livingston County ⓘ |
| 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: Cullom, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Cullom, Illinois, United States, is a small rural village in Livingston County best known as the birthplace of chemist and philanthropist Arnold O. Beckman.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.