IL
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IL is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IL canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7708849 — 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: IL Context triple: [Royal, Illinois, stateAbbreviation, IL]
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A.
IL
IL is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Israel for international standardization and data representation.
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B.
IL
IL is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
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C.
IL
IL is the vehicle registration code used for the district encompassing the Slovak town of Dubnica nad Váhom.
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D.
INA
INA refers to the Indian National Army, a military force formed during World War II to fight against British colonial rule in India, primarily under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose.
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E.
INA
INA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, the foundational federal law governing immigration and citizenship in the United States.
- 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: IL Target entity description: IL is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Illinois.
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A.
IL
IL is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Israel for international standardization and data representation.
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B.
IL
IL is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland.
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C.
IL
IL is the vehicle registration code used for the district encompassing the Slovak town of Dubnica nad Váhom.
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D.
INA
INA refers to the Indian National Army, a military force formed during World War II to fight against British colonial rule in India, primarily under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose.
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E.
INA
INA is the commonly used abbreviation for the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act, the foundational federal law governing immigration and citizenship in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Illinois state government
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. state ⓘ |
| case | uppercase ⓘ |
| character1 | I ⓘ |
| character2 | L ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter abbreviation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distinctFrom |
IA
ⓘ
IN ⓘ IT ⓘ |
| formatContext |
ZIP Code addressing
ⓘ
state designation on envelopes ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedCapital | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedLargestCity | Chicago, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedTimeZone | Central Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| mapsToFIPSStateCode | 17 ⓘ |
| mapsToISO_3166_2 | US-IL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionCodeFor | Midwestern United States state ⓘ |
| represents | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| standardizedIn | United States postal addressing standards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | United States Postal Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | mail addressing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
domestic U.S. mail
ⓘ
international mail to the United States ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: IL Description of subject: IL is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Illinois.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Illinois
subject surface form:
Loyola Ramblers men's basketball