Macomb, Illinois
E498597
Macomb, Illinois is a small Midwestern city in the United States best known as the home of Western Illinois University.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macomb, Illinois canonical | 4 |
| Macomb | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5153260 — 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: Macomb, Illinois Context triple: [Nantwich, twinnedWith, Macomb, Illinois]
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A.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
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B.
Midlothian, Illinois
Midlothian, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its residential neighborhoods and commuter access to the city.
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C.
Lansing, Illinois
Lansing, Illinois is a suburban village in the south suburbs of Chicago known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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D.
Kenilworth, Illinois
Kenilworth, Illinois is a small, affluent North Shore suburb of Chicago known for its planned residential character and high-quality schools.
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E.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
- 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: Macomb, Illinois Target entity description: Macomb, Illinois is a small Midwestern city in the United States best known as the home of Western Illinois University.
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A.
Montgomery, Illinois
Montgomery, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area spanning Kane and Kendall counties along the Fox River.
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B.
Midlothian, Illinois
Midlothian, Illinois is a suburban village in Cook County, part of the Chicago metropolitan area, known for its residential neighborhoods and commuter access to the city.
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C.
Lansing, Illinois
Lansing, Illinois is a suburban village in the south suburbs of Chicago known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
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D.
Kenilworth, Illinois
Kenilworth, Illinois is a small, affluent North Shore suburb of Chicago known for its planned residential character and high-quality schools.
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E.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 309 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Macomb Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Heritage Days festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Macomb Senior High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Macomb Courthouse Square Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite | McDonough County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | McDonough District Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedia | McDonough County Voice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotto | “A Special Place to Live” ⓘ |
| hasPark |
Everly Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glenwood Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Macomb Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRadioStation |
WIUM
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WJEQ NERFINISHED ⓘ WNLF NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailOperator | Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | Western Illinois Leathernecks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | Amtrak station ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Western Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCollegeTown | true ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | McDonough County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Western Illinois University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
McDonough County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInWatershed | Mississippi River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alexander Macomb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearRiver | La Moine River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
Western Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 61455 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicDriver | higher education ⓘ |
| railService |
Carl Sandburg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Zephyr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West-Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
Illinois Route 110
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 136 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 67 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| universityTypePresent | public university ⓘ |
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: Macomb, Illinois Description of subject: Macomb, Illinois is a small Midwestern city in the United States best known as the home of Western Illinois University.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Macomb
this entity surface form:
Macomb