Shelby County, Illinois
E442681
Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shelby County, Illinois canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630894 — 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: Shelby County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Shelby County, Illinois]
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A.
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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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Fulton County, Illinois
Fulton County, Illinois is a largely rural county in west-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical ties to coal mining and Abraham Lincoln’s legal circuit.
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D.
Boone County, Illinois
Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
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E.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
- 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: Shelby County, Illinois Target entity description: Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
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A.
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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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Fulton County, Illinois
Fulton County, Illinois is a largely rural county in west-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical ties to coal mining and Abraham Lincoln’s legal circuit.
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D.
Boone County, Illinois
Boone County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in northern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and proximity to the Rockford metropolitan area.
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E.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| bordersOnBodyOfWater | Lake Shelbyville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalCharacteristic |
corn production
ⓘ
soybean production ⓘ |
| hasAreaCharacteristic | largely land with some water area from Lake Shelbyville ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Shelbyville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | sparsely populated rural areas ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Kaskaskia River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Shelbyville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17173 ⓘ |
| hasGNISID | 04299440 ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasJudicialFunction | part of Illinois state court system ⓘ |
| hasLandscapeCharacteristic | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| hasLargestCity | Shelbyville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLegislativeBody | Shelby County Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorReservoir | Lake Shelbyville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviationState | IL ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLandUse | farmland ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalActivity |
boating on Lake Shelbyville
ⓘ
camping near Lake Shelbyville ⓘ fishing on Lake Shelbyville ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | US-IL ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistricts | multiple public school districts ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Cowden, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Findlay, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Moweaqua, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelbyville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Stewardson, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Windsor, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationMode | rural road network ⓘ |
| inception | 1827 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Midwest ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInCongressionalDistrict | Illinois's 15th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Isaac Shelby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Isaac Shelby, first Governor of Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTimeZone | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| partOf | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county of Illinois ⓘ |
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: Shelby County, Illinois Description of subject: Shelby County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in the U.S. state of Illinois, known for its agricultural landscape and the presence of Lake Shelbyville, a major recreational reservoir.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.