Springfield, Illinois
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Springfield, Illinois is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois, best known as the longtime home and final resting place of Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13397 — 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: Springfield, Illinois Context triple: [Abraham Lincoln, burialPlace, Springfield, Illinois]
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Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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Springfield, Ohio, United States
Springfield, Ohio, United States is a mid-sized city in southwestern Ohio known as the birthplace of musician John Legend and for its historical role in regional industry and transportation.
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States is a major Midwestern metropolis known for its influential architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a historic center of industry and commerce.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
St. Louis, Missouri, United States is a major Midwestern city on the Mississippi River known for its iconic Gateway Arch, rich musical and cultural heritage, and historical role as a gateway to the American West.
- 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: Springfield, Illinois Target entity description: Springfield, Illinois is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois, best known as the longtime home and final resting place of Abraham Lincoln.
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Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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Springfield, Ohio, United States
Springfield, Ohio, United States is a mid-sized city in southwestern Ohio known as the birthplace of musician John Legend and for its historical role in regional industry and transportation.
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Urbana, Illinois, United States
Urbana, Illinois, United States is a Midwestern college town best known as home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its major research community.
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Chicago, Illinois, United States is a major Midwestern metropolis known for its influential architecture, cultural institutions, and role as a historic center of industry and commerce.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
St. Louis, Missouri, United States is a major Midwestern city on the Mississippi River known for its iconic Gateway Arch, rich musical and cultural heritage, and historical role as a gateway to the American West.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Springfield, Illinois Description of subject: Springfield, Illinois is the capital city of the U.S. state of Illinois, best known as the longtime home and final resting place of Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (222)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois area
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
subject surface form:
Tad Lincoln
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
subject surface form:
Illinois
this entity surface form:
Springfield, Illinois, United States
state departments of transportation of Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois
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headquartersLocation
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Springfield, Illinois
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subject surface form:
Illinois Department of Transportation
this entity surface form:
City of Springfield, Illinois
this entity surface form:
City of Springfield, Illinois
subject surface form:
Lincoln & Herndon
subject surface form:
Lincoln & Herndon