Carthage, Illinois
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Carthage, Illinois is a small city in western Illinois known historically as the former location of Carthage College and as the county seat of Hancock County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carthage, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9688515 — 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: Carthage, Illinois Context triple: [Carthage College, movedTo, Carthage, Illinois]
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A.
Cairo, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois is a historic river town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers that played a significant role in regional trade, transportation, and Civil War history.
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B.
Charleston, Illinois
Charleston, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois best known as the home of Eastern Illinois University and its surrounding college-town community.
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C.
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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D.
Cicero, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
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E.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
- 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: Carthage, Illinois Target entity description: Carthage, Illinois is a small city in western Illinois known historically as the former location of Carthage College and as the county seat of Hancock County.
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A.
Cairo, Illinois
Cairo, Illinois is a historic river town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers that played a significant role in regional trade, transportation, and Civil War history.
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B.
Charleston, Illinois
Charleston, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois best known as the home of Eastern Illinois University and its surrounding college-town community.
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C.
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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D.
Cicero, Illinois
Cicero, Illinois is a historic inner-ring suburb of Chicago known for its industrial base, dense residential neighborhoods, and significant immigrant communities.
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E.
LaPlace, Illinois
LaPlace, Illinois is a small rural village located in Piatt County in central Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Hancock County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 696 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-11488 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2393692 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalHistory | Carthage College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Carthage Jail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hancock County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
Illinois Route 336
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 94 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWaterBody | Carthage Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | former location of Carthage College ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
western Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Carthage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Hancock County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| populationCensusYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62321 ⓘ |
| region | Hancock County, Illinois micropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Hancock County, Illinois ⓘ |
| 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: Carthage, Illinois Description of subject: Carthage, Illinois is a small city in western Illinois known historically as the former location of Carthage College and as the county seat of Hancock County.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carthage College