Effingham, Illinois
E511128
Effingham, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois known as a regional transportation hub where major interstate highways intersect.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Effingham, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630868 — 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: Effingham, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Effingham, Illinois]
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A.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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B.
Hainesville, Illinois
Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
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C.
Monmouth, Illinois
Monmouth, Illinois is a small city in western Illinois known as the home of Monmouth College and for its agricultural and manufacturing-based local economy.
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D.
Fairmont, Illinois
Fairmont, Illinois is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Will County in the northeastern part of the state.
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E.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
- 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: Effingham, Illinois Target entity description: Effingham, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois known as a regional transportation hub where major interstate highways intersect.
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A.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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B.
Hainesville, Illinois
Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
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C.
Monmouth, Illinois
Monmouth, Illinois is a small city in western Illinois known as the home of Monmouth College and for its agricultural and manufacturing-based local economy.
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D.
Fairmont, Illinois
Fairmont, Illinois is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Will County in the northeastern part of the state.
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E.
Wilmington, Illinois
Wilmington, Illinois is a small city in Will County known for its historic downtown along the Kankakee River and its proximity to the Illinois Route 66 scenic corridor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| climateClassification | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| governingBody | Effingham City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
217
ⓘ
447 ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 17-22982 ⓘ |
| hasFormOfGovernment | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 2394702 ⓘ |
| hasHospital | HSHS St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorRailService |
CSX Transportation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Canadian National Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Crossroads of Opportunity ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructure | Cross at the Crossroads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableStructureHeight | approximately 198 feet ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.effinghamil.com/ ⓘ |
| hasPassengerRailService | Amtrak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulation | approximately 12,000 ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 62401 ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Effingham Community Unit School District 40 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCityInYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| interstateHighwayPassesThrough |
Interstate 57
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Effingham County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Census Bureau micropolitan statistical area ⓘ |
| knownAs | regional transportation hub ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Effingham County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Central Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Little Wabash River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Effingham County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSectors |
manufacturing
ⓘ
retail trade ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| settledInYear | early 19th century ⓘ |
| U.S.HighwayPassesThrough |
U.S. Route 40
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 45 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Effingham, Illinois Description of subject: Effingham, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois known as a regional transportation hub where major interstate highways intersect.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.