Madison, Illinois, United States
E558630
Madison, Illinois, United States is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area along the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madison, Illinois | 2 |
| Madison, Illinois, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5968174 — 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: Madison, Illinois, United States Context triple: [Donnie Freeman, placeOfBirth, Madison, Illinois, United States]
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A.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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B.
Itasca, Illinois
Itasca, Illinois is a suburban village in DuPage County known for its residential character, business parks, and proximity to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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C.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
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D.
Washington, Illinois
Washington, Illinois is a small city in Tazewell County known as a residential community within the Peoria metropolitan area in central Illinois.
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E.
Clinton, Illinois
Clinton, Illinois is a small central Illinois city in DeWitt County known historically as a 19th-century railroad and agricultural community.
- 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: Madison, Illinois, United States Target entity description: Madison, Illinois, United States is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area along the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
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A.
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Madison, Wisconsin, United States is the capital city of Wisconsin, known for its major research university, vibrant cultural scene, and numerous lakes.
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B.
Itasca, Illinois
Itasca, Illinois is a suburban village in DuPage County known for its residential character, business parks, and proximity to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
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C.
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Champaign is a central Illinois city known for forming the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area and hosting the main campus of the University of Illinois.
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D.
Washington, Illinois
Washington, Illinois is a small city in Tazewell County known as a residential community within the Peoria metropolitan area in central Illinois.
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E.
Clinton, Illinois
Clinton, Illinois is a small central Illinois city in DeWitt County known historically as a 19th-century railroad and agricultural community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | southwestern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
industrial city
ⓘ
small city ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
industry
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasName | Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | City of Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasTimeZone |
CDT
ⓘ
CST ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRole | industrial transportation hub ⓘ |
| isOnBorderBetween |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Greater St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInCensusRegion | Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFederalEntity | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere |
Northern Hemisphere
ⓘ
Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | American Bottom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRiverValley | Mississippi River Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfEconomicRegion | St. Louis metropolitan statistical area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfUrbanArea | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | 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: Madison, Illinois, United States Description of subject: Madison, Illinois, United States is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area along the Mississippi River in southwestern Illinois.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madison, Illinois
this entity surface form:
Madison, Illinois