Sangamon County, Illinois
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Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sangamon County, Illinois canonical | 44 |
| Sangamon County | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T385713 — 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: Sangamon County, Illinois Context triple: [Oak Ridge Cemetery, locatedIn, Sangamon County, Illinois]
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Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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B.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
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C.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
Will County, Illinois
Will County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
- 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: Sangamon County, Illinois Target entity description: Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
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A.
Champaign County, Illinois
Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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B.
LaSalle County, Illinois
LaSalle County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in north-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape, small towns, and historical sites dating back to early 19th-century settlement.
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C.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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E.
Will County, Illinois
Will County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sangamon County, Illinois Description of subject: Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
Referenced by (50)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Springfield City Council
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locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Sangamon County, Illinois
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
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locatedInAdministrativeTerritory
→
Sangamon County, Illinois
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this entity surface form:
Sangamon County
Illinois Department of Military Affairs
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locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Sangamon County, Illinois
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this entity surface form:
Sangamon County
this entity surface form:
Sangamon County
subject surface form:
Lincoln & Herndon
this entity surface form:
Sangamon County
this entity surface form:
Sangamon County
this entity surface form:
Sangamon County