St. Louis–Belleville metropolitan area (Illinois portion)

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.

Subject: St. Louis–Belleville metropolitan area (Illinois portion)
Description of subject: The St. Louis–Belleville metropolitan area (Illinois portion) is the segment of the greater St. Louis metro region located in southwestern Illinois, encompassing cities and suburbs such as Belleville and East St. Louis that are economically and socially integrated with St. Louis, Missouri.