Jackson County, Illinois
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Jackson County, Illinois is a county in southern Illinois known for encompassing the city of Carbondale and being home to Southern Illinois University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jackson County, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4940187 — 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: Jackson County, Illinois Context triple: [Carbondale, Illinois, county, Jackson County, Illinois]
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A.
Jefferson County, Illinois
Jefferson County, Illinois is a largely rural county in southern Illinois whose seat is the city of Mount Vernon.
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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Washington County, Illinois
Washington County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in southern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities, with Nashville as its county seat.
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D.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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E.
Marion County, Illinois
Marion County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in south-central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Salem.
- 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: Jackson County, Illinois Target entity description: Jackson County, Illinois is a county in southern Illinois known for encompassing the city of Carbondale and being home to Southern Illinois University.
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A.
Jefferson County, Illinois
Jefferson County, Illinois is a largely rural county in southern Illinois whose seat is the city of Mount Vernon.
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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Washington County, Illinois
Washington County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in southern Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities, with Nashville as its county seat.
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D.
Pike County, Illinois
Pike County, Illinois is a largely rural county in western Illinois along the Mississippi River, known for its agricultural landscape, historic small towns, and location between the cities of Quincy and Springfield.
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E.
Marion County, Illinois
Marion County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in south-central Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities such as its county seat, Salem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Missouri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Perry County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Union County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Williamson County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Murphysboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Ava, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Campbell Hill, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Carbondale, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ De Soto, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Elkville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Gorham, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Grand Tower, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Makanda, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphysboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Illinois University Carbondale NERFINISHED ⓘ Vergennes, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17077 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 04290664 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Southern Illinois Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasCourthouse | Jackson County Courthouse (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHigherEducationInstitution | Southern Illinois University Carbondale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorCity | Carbondale, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Illinois Route 13
NERFINISHED
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Illinois Route 149 NERFINISHED ⓘ Illinois Route 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 51 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviation | IL ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge (part)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shawnee National Forest (part) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRegion | Shawnee Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver |
Big Muddy River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInCongressionalDistrict | Illinois's 12th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Midwest ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Andrew Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seat | Murphysboro, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central 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: Jackson County, Illinois Description of subject: Jackson County, Illinois is a county in southern Illinois known for encompassing the city of Carbondale and being home to Southern Illinois University.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.