Pontoon Beach, Illinois
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Pontoon Beach, Illinois is a small village in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to major highways and industrial and commercial developments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pontoon Beach, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212112 — 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: Pontoon Beach, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, Pontoon Beach, Illinois]
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A.
Round Lake Beach, Illinois
Round Lake Beach, Illinois is a suburban village in northeastern Illinois known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chain O’Lakes region.
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B.
Beach Park, Illinois
Beach Park, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois near Lake Michigan, known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Poplar Beach
Poplar Beach is a coastal beach and popular recreation spot in Half Moon Bay, California, known for its scenic ocean views, walking trails, and beach access.
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D.
Chouteau Island, Illinois
Chouteau Island, Illinois is a river island complex in the Mississippi River near St. Louis, known for its role in regional transportation history and as a significant conservation and recreation area.
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E.
Illinois Beach State Park
Illinois Beach State Park is a protected natural area in northeastern Illinois known for its sandy Lake Michigan shoreline, dunes, wetlands, and diverse plant and wildlife habitats.
- 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: Pontoon Beach, Illinois Target entity description: Pontoon Beach, Illinois is a small village in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to major highways and industrial and commercial developments.
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A.
Round Lake Beach, Illinois
Round Lake Beach, Illinois is a suburban village in northeastern Illinois known for its residential communities and proximity to the Chain O’Lakes region.
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B.
Beach Park, Illinois
Beach Park, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois near Lake Michigan, known as a residential community within the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
Poplar Beach
Poplar Beach is a coastal beach and popular recreation spot in Half Moon Bay, California, known for its scenic ocean views, walking trails, and beach access.
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D.
Chouteau Island, Illinois
Chouteau Island, Illinois is a river island complex in the Mississippi River near St. Louis, known for its role in regional transportation history and as a significant conservation and recreation area.
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E.
Illinois Beach State Park
Illinois Beach State Park is a protected natural area in northeastern Illinois known for its sandy Lake Michigan shoreline, dunes, wetlands, and diverse plant and wildlife habitats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 420 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-61088 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2399660 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasCommercialDevelopment | yes ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
logistics
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| hasHighwayAccess |
Illinois Route 111
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Interstate 255 NERFINISHED ⓘ Interstate 270 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialDevelopment | yes ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial
ⓘ
industrial ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | Pontoon Beach village government ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterBody | Horseshoe Lake State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationInfrastructure | major highways ⓘ |
| hasWaterArea | yes ⓘ |
| isInMetropolitanStatisticalArea | St. Louis MSA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
American Bottom region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSuburbOf | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Greater St. Louis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metro East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Chain of Rocks Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Collinsville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Granite City, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Horseshoe Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ Madison, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| partOfUrbanArea | St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62040 ⓘ |
| region | southern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settlementType | village ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: Pontoon Beach, Illinois Description of subject: Pontoon Beach, Illinois is a small village in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to major highways and industrial and commercial developments.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.