Village of Ransom
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Village of Ransom is a small incorporated community located in the state of Illinois, United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Village of Ransom canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10186974 — 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: Village of Ransom Context triple: [Ransom, Illinois, hasOfficialName, Village of Ransom]
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A.
In the Village
"In the Village" is a lyrical autobiographical short story by American poet Elizabeth Bishop that evokes her childhood memories of a Nova Scotia village through precise, sensory prose.
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B.
Town of Willing
The Town of Willing is a small rural municipality in southwestern New York State known for its scenic landscapes and quiet, sparsely populated community.
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C.
The Village on the River
The Village on the River is a Dutch film directed by Fons Rademakers, recognized as one of the early classics of postwar Dutch cinema.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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E.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- 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: Village of Ransom Target entity description: Village of Ransom is a small incorporated community located in the state of Illinois, United States.
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A.
In the Village
"In the Village" is a lyrical autobiographical short story by American poet Elizabeth Bishop that evokes her childhood memories of a Nova Scotia village through precise, sensory prose.
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B.
Town of Willing
The Town of Willing is a small rural municipality in southwestern New York State known for its scenic landscapes and quiet, sparsely populated community.
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C.
The Village on the River
The Village on the River is a Dutch film directed by Fons Rademakers, recognized as one of the early classics of postwar Dutch cinema.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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E.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| appliesLegalSystem |
Illinois state law
ⓘ
U.S. law ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| geographicalContext | rural community in Illinois ⓘ |
| governingSystem | village board form of municipal government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
incorporated municipality
ⓘ
rural village ⓘ small population ⓘ |
| hasCountrySubdivision | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName |
Ransom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Village of Ransom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAddressCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | incorporated community ⓘ |
| isIncorporated | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFederalEntity | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | true ⓘ |
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: Village of Ransom Description of subject: Village of Ransom is a small incorporated community located in the state of Illinois, United States.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.