South Roxana, Illinois
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South Roxana, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to industrial and refinery operations along the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| South Roxana, Illinois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212117 — 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: South Roxana, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, South Roxana, Illinois]
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A.
Roxana, Illinois
Roxana, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its association with the oil refining industry.
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B.
Rockdale, Illinois
Rockdale, Illinois is a small village in Will County that functions largely as an industrial and residential suburb of the Joliet area.
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C.
Roselle, Illinois
Roselle, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and location within DuPage and Cook counties.
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D.
Roxana, Illinois, United States
Roxana, Illinois, United States is a small village in Madison County known as the hometown of Basketball Hall of Famer Harry Gallatin and for its proximity to industrial and refinery facilities near the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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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: South Roxana, Illinois Target entity description: South Roxana, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to industrial and refinery operations along the Mississippi River.
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A.
Roxana, Illinois
Roxana, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its association with the oil refining industry.
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B.
Rockdale, Illinois
Rockdale, Illinois is a small village in Will County that functions largely as an industrial and residential suburb of the Joliet area.
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C.
Roselle, Illinois
Roselle, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential neighborhoods and location within DuPage and Cook counties.
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D.
Roxana, Illinois, United States
Roxana, Illinois, United States is a small village in Madison County known as the hometown of Basketball Hall of Famer Harry Gallatin and for its proximity to industrial and refinery facilities near the St. Louis metropolitan area.
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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 (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Hartford, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roxana, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Wood River, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 400 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-71288 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2399890 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
industrial surroundings
ⓘ
small population ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEnvironmentalContext | influenced by refinery and industrial emissions ⓘ |
| hasIndustrialCharacteristic |
proximity to heavy industry
ⓘ
proximity to oil refineries ⓘ proximity to petrochemical plants ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | residential areas near industrial zones ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInfrastructure |
industrial plants along the Mississippi River
ⓘ
oil refineries along the Mississippi River ⓘ petrochemical facilities along the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| hasNearbyWaterBody |
Mississippi River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wood River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationAccess | proximity to regional highways ⓘ |
| isInCountySubdivision | Wood River Township, Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
St. Louis metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| locatedInEconomicRegion | industrial corridor along the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | St. Louis, Missouri–Illinois metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Metro East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Hartford, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mississippi River NERFINISHED ⓘ Roxana, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Wood River, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | American Bottom floodplain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDST | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater St. Louis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madison County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62087 ⓘ |
| 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: South Roxana, Illinois Description of subject: South Roxana, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known for its proximity to industrial and refinery operations 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