Hillsboro, Illinois
E863895
Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hillsboro, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9688514 — 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: Hillsboro, Illinois Context triple: [Carthage College, foundingLocation, Hillsboro, Illinois]
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A.
Hartford, Illinois
Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
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B.
Hainesville, Illinois
Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
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C.
Union Hill, Illinois
Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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D.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
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E.
Williamsville, Illinois
Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
- 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: Hillsboro, Illinois Target entity description: Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
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A.
Hartford, Illinois
Hartford, Illinois is a small village in Madison County known historically for its proximity to the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and its association with early American exploration and industry.
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B.
Hainesville, Illinois
Hainesville, Illinois is a small suburban village in northeastern Illinois known as one of the older settled communities in Lake County.
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C.
Union Hill, Illinois
Union Hill, Illinois is a small village located in Kankakee County within the Kankakee metropolitan area in northeastern Illinois.
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D.
Centreville, Illinois
Centreville, Illinois was a small, economically challenged suburban community in St. Clair County that formed part of the greater East St. Louis metropolitan area.
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E.
Williamsville, Illinois
Williamsville, Illinois is a small village in central Illinois that functions as a residential community within the Springfield metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| characteristic | historic Midwestern character ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
education sector
ⓘ
local retail and service businesses ⓘ regional government services ⓘ |
| feature |
historic courthouse square
ⓘ
small-city downtown ⓘ |
| FIPScode | 17-35088 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2394352 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Hillsboro Community Unit School District 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Hillsboro High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Hillsboro Historic Commercial District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | Hillsboro Area Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLake |
Lake Hillsboro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Lake Hillsboro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNewspaper | The Hillsboro Journal-News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark |
Central Park, Hillsboro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherwood Forest Campground area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Hillsboro Public Library District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
regional commerce center
ⓘ
regional education center ⓘ |
| hasZIPCode | 62049 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Montgomery County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | Illinois till plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| nearCity |
Litchfield, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taylor Springs, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Greater St. Louis combined statistical area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62049 ⓘ |
| region | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| servedByHighway |
Illinois Route 127
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois Route 16 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
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: Hillsboro, Illinois Description of subject: Hillsboro, Illinois is a small city in Montgomery County known for its historic Midwestern character and role in regional education and commerce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Carthage College