Paris, Illinois
E769349
Paris, Illinois is a small city in Edgar County that serves as a regional hub for agriculture, commerce, and local government in east-central Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paris, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7955245 — 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: Paris, Illinois Context triple: [Illinois Route 1, serves, Paris, Illinois]
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A.
Pekin, Illinois
Pekin, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois along the Illinois River, historically known for its manufacturing base and as the hometown of longtime U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen.
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B.
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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C.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
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D.
Marseilles, Illinois
Marseilles, Illinois is a small city along the Illinois River in LaSalle County known for its historic canal-era roots and proximity to Starved Rock State Park.
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E.
La Salle, Illinois
La Salle, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois located along the Illinois River, historically known as a transportation and industrial hub.
- 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: Paris, Illinois Target entity description: Paris, Illinois is a small city in Edgar County that serves as a regional hub for agriculture, commerce, and local government in east-central Illinois.
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A.
Pekin, Illinois
Pekin, Illinois is a small city in central Illinois along the Illinois River, historically known for its manufacturing base and as the hometown of longtime U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen.
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B.
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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C.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
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D.
Marseilles, Illinois
Marseilles, Illinois is a small city along the Illinois River in LaSalle County known for its historic canal-era roots and proximity to Starved Rock State Park.
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E.
La Salle, Illinois
La Salle, Illinois is a small city in north-central Illinois located along the Illinois River, historically known as a transportation and industrial hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Edgar County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-57763 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0415161 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Paris Cooperative High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris High School (Illinois) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLake | Twin Lakes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Twin Lakes Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 61944 ⓘ |
| hasPublicBuilding | Edgar County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Paris Carnegie Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailService | freight rail ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 150 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Edgar County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Edgar County micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | east-central Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Indiana state line ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Paris, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
light manufacturing ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| region | east-central Illinois agricultural region ⓘ |
| role |
regional hub for agriculture
ⓘ
regional hub for commerce ⓘ regional hub for local government ⓘ |
| servesAs | service center for surrounding rural areas ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Paris, Illinois Description of subject: Paris, Illinois is a small city in Edgar County that serves as a regional hub for agriculture, commerce, and local government in east-central Illinois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.