Ilion, New York
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Ilion, New York is a village in Herkimer County best known as the longtime home of the Remington Arms firearms manufacturing company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilion, New York canonical | 2 |
| Ilium, New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7018591 — 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: Ilion, New York Context triple: [Frankfort, New York, locatedNearCity, Ilion, New York]
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Hector, New York
Hector, New York is a rural town in Schuyler County known for its Finger Lakes wine country vineyards, scenic views along Seneca Lake, and proximity to state parks and gorges.
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B.
Gilboa, New York
Gilboa, New York is a small rural town in Schoharie County best known for its proximity to the Schoharie Reservoir and its historic fossil forests.
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C.
Ancram, New York
Ancram, New York is a small rural town in Columbia County known for its scenic Hudson Valley landscapes, farms, and quiet residential character.
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D.
Watertown, New York
Watertown, New York is a small city in northern New York State that serves as the commercial and cultural hub of the surrounding rural region near the Canadian border.
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E.
Buchanan, New York
Buchanan, New York is a small village in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
- 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: Ilion, New York Target entity description: Ilion, New York is a village in Herkimer County best known as the longtime home of the Remington Arms firearms manufacturing company.
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A.
Hector, New York
Hector, New York is a rural town in Schuyler County known for its Finger Lakes wine country vineyards, scenic views along Seneca Lake, and proximity to state parks and gorges.
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B.
Gilboa, New York
Gilboa, New York is a small rural town in Schoharie County best known for its proximity to the Schoharie Reservoir and its historic fossil forests.
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C.
Ancram, New York
Ancram, New York is a small rural town in Columbia County known for its scenic Hudson Valley landscapes, farms, and quiet residential character.
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D.
Watertown, New York
Watertown, New York is a small city in northern New York State that serves as the commercial and cultural hub of the surrounding rural region near the Canadian border.
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E.
Buchanan, New York
Buchanan, New York is a small village in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential character and proximity to major transportation routes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 315 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| coordinates | 42.985°N 75.040°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Herkimer County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationFeet | 407 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 36-37077 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0953450 ⓘ |
| hasFireDepartment | Ilion Fire Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village government ⓘ |
| hasHighSchoolHistoric | Ilion High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
light industry
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasPark | Russell Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPoliceDepartment | Ilion Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Ilion Free Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransportation | Herkimer County public transit services ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Central Valley Central School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasZIPCodeType | standard ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsVillage | 1852 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Remington Arms Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
firearms manufacturing ⓘ |
| locatedAlong | New York State Route 5S NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mohawk Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Utica–Rome metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Erie Canal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mohawk River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorEmployerHistorically | Remington Arms Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergedSchoolDistrictFormed | 2013 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ilium (ancient Troy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestCity | Utica, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Town of Frankfort, New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Town of German Flatts, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 8053 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 7812 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 13357 ⓘ |
| previousSchoolDistrict | Ilion Central School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Central New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolMascotHistoric | Golden Bombers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByAirportNearby |
Griffiss International Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Syracuse Hancock International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByRailroadHistorically | New York Central Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settled | early 19th century ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Ilion, New York Description of subject: Ilion, New York is a village in Herkimer County best known as the longtime home of the Remington Arms firearms manufacturing company.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frankfort, New York
this entity surface form:
Ilium, New York