Centreville, Illinois
E521525
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Centreville, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2825530 — 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: Centreville, Illinois Context triple: [East St. Louis, Illinois, adjacentTo, Centreville, Illinois]
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A.
Williamsville, Illinois
Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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E.
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.
- 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: Centreville, Illinois Target entity description: Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
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A.
Williamsville, Illinois
Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Alorton, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cahokia, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ East St. Louis, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | St. Clair County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dissolvedOrAbolished | Cahokia Heights, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 128 meters
ⓘ
approximately 420 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-123 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2393690 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
economically challenged
ⓘ
suburban community ⓘ |
| hasDemographicCharacteristic | predominantly African American population ⓘ |
| hasEconomicCondition | high poverty rate ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructureIssue |
chronic flooding
ⓘ
sewer system problems ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
industrial
ⓘ
light commercial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasPublicServiceIssue |
aging infrastructure
ⓘ
limited municipal resources ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Metro East
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Midwest ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Mississippi River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Air Force Base NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnTerrainFeature | American Bottom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedInto | Cahokia Heights, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
American Bottom floodplain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
East St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Greater St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Louis, Missouri–Illinois metropolitan statistical area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62207 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
served by Illinois Route 13
ⓘ
served by Illinois Route 157 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffset | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Centreville, Illinois Description of subject: Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.