Jackson County, Illinois, United States
E433767
Jackson County, Illinois, United States, is a southern Illinois county along the Mississippi River known for its county seat of Murphysboro, proximity to Carbondale and Southern Illinois University, and mix of rural landscapes and small urban centers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jackson County, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4367489 — 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: Jackson County, Illinois, United States Context triple: [John Alexander Logan, birthPlace, Jackson County, Illinois, United States]
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A.
De Witt County, Illinois
De Witt County, Illinois is a rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities, with Clinton as its county seat.
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B.
Rock Island County, Illinois
Rock Island County, Illinois is a county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for the city of Rock Island and the Rock Island Arsenal military installation.
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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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D.
Knox County, Illinois
Knox County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois whose seat and largest city is Galesburg.
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E.
Peoria County, Illinois
Peoria County, Illinois is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose seat and largest city is Peoria, a regional hub for industry, healthcare, and education.
- 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: Jackson County, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Jackson County, Illinois, United States, is a southern Illinois county along the Mississippi River known for its county seat of Murphysboro, proximity to Carbondale and Southern Illinois University, and mix of rural landscapes and small urban centers.
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A.
De Witt County, Illinois
De Witt County, Illinois is a rural county in central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities, with Clinton as its county seat.
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B.
Rock Island County, Illinois
Rock Island County, Illinois is a county in northwestern Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for the city of Rock Island and the Rock Island Arsenal military installation.
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C.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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D.
Knox County, Illinois
Knox County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in western Illinois whose seat and largest city is Galesburg.
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E.
Peoria County, Illinois
Peoria County, Illinois is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois whose seat and largest city is Peoria, a regional hub for industry, healthcare, and education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Illinois ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Perry County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perry County, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| containsAirport | Southern Illinois Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsCity |
Carbondale, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Murphysboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsProtectedArea | Shawnee National Forest (part) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsUnincorporatedCommunity |
Grand Tower, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Makanda, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Pomona, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsUniversity | Southern Illinois University Carbondale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsVillage |
Ava, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
De Soto, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Elkville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Gorham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacob, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Vergennes, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsWaterBody |
Crab Orchard Creek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kinkaid Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Murphysboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fipsCode | 17077 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasFeature | mix of agricultural land and forested hills ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeBody | Jackson County Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegionType |
rural
ⓘ
small urban centers ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 13
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 149 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
location along the Mississippi River
ⓘ
proximity to Southern Illinois University ⓘ |
| largestCity | Carbondale, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Andrew Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Little Egypt region of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| region | Illinois Ozarks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Jackson County, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Jackson County, Illinois, United States, is a southern Illinois county along the Mississippi River known for its county seat of Murphysboro, proximity to Carbondale and Southern Illinois University, and mix of rural landscapes and small urban centers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.