Wood River, Illinois
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Wood River, Illinois is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its oil refinery and location along the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wood River, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212103 — 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: Wood River, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, Wood River, Illinois]
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A.
Wildwood, Illinois
Wildwood, Illinois is an unincorporated residential community in Lake County known for its proximity to several small lakes and neighboring villages such as Third Lake.
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B.
Mazon, Illinois
Mazon, Illinois is a small village in Grundy County known for its rural character and proximity to fossil-rich geological formations.
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C.
Indian Creek, Illinois
Indian Creek, Illinois is a small community in the state of Illinois, United States.
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D.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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E.
Laona, Illinois
Laona, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Illinois, United States, known as the birthplace of social reformer and Hull House co-founder Ellen Gates Starr.
- 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: Wood River, Illinois Target entity description: Wood River, Illinois is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its oil refinery and location along the Mississippi River.
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A.
Wildwood, Illinois
Wildwood, Illinois is an unincorporated residential community in Lake County known for its proximity to several small lakes and neighboring villages such as Third Lake.
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B.
Mazon, Illinois
Mazon, Illinois is a small village in Grundy County known for its rural character and proximity to fossil-rich geological formations.
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C.
Indian Creek, Illinois
Indian Creek, Illinois is a small community in the state of Illinois, United States.
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D.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
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E.
Laona, Illinois
Laona, Illinois is a small unincorporated community in Illinois, United States, known as the birthplace of social reformer and Hull House co-founder Ellen Gates Starr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
East Alton, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hartford, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Roxana, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsRegion | Metro East industrial communities ⓘ |
| economicActivity | energy sector ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 440 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-83263 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0423321 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | East Alton–Wood River High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEmergencyService |
Wood River Fire Department
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wood River Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Wood River Refinery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
manufacturing
ⓘ
petroleum refining ⓘ |
| hasPark |
Belk Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Central Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicService | Wood River Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiverfront | Mississippi River industrial riverfront ⓘ |
| historicalEconomicBase |
oil refining
ⓘ
river transportation ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
industrial history
ⓘ
oil refinery ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Louis metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southwestern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Wood River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea | St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62095 ⓘ |
| region | Metro East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| riverConfluenceNearby | Missouri River and Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone | CST ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
| transportation |
Illinois Route 3
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 67 NERFINISHED ⓘ railroad lines ⓘ |
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: Wood River, Illinois Description of subject: Wood River, Illinois is a small industrial city in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its oil refinery and location along the Mississippi River.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Roxana, Illinois