Sherrard, Illinois
E1009180
Sherrard, Illinois is a small village in Mercer County known as a rural residential community in western Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherrard, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12909693 — 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: Sherrard, Illinois Context triple: [Mercer County, Illinois, containsSettlement, Sherrard, Illinois]
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A.
Shabbona, Illinois
Shabbona, Illinois is a small rural village in DeKalb County known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Shabbona Lake State Park.
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B.
Thayer, Illinois
Thayer, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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C.
Sheridan, Illinois
Sheridan, Illinois is a small village in LaSalle County known for its scenic location along the Fox River in north-central Illinois.
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D.
Sadorus, Illinois
Sadorus, Illinois is a small village located in Champaign County in east-central Illinois, known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Curran, Illinois
Curran, Illinois is a small village located in Sangamon County near the city of Springfield.
- 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: Sherrard, Illinois Target entity description: Sherrard, Illinois is a small village in Mercer County known as a rural residential community in western Illinois.
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A.
Shabbona, Illinois
Shabbona, Illinois is a small rural village in DeKalb County known for its agricultural surroundings and proximity to Shabbona Lake State Park.
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B.
Thayer, Illinois
Thayer, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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C.
Sheridan, Illinois
Sheridan, Illinois is a small village in LaSalle County known for its scenic location along the Fox River in north-central Illinois.
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D.
Sadorus, Illinois
Sadorus, Illinois is a small village located in Champaign County in east-central Illinois, known for its rural character and agricultural surroundings.
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E.
Curran, Illinois
Curran, Illinois is a small village located in Sangamon County near the city of Springfield.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Mercer County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 309 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
residential community
ⓘ
rural character ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 61281 ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| hasStateSubdivisionName | Illinois ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionName | Mercer County ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Mercer County, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State of Illinois ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isRuralResidentialCommunity | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| region | western Illinois ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| usesMeasurementSystem |
U.S. customary units
ⓘ
linked to:
United States customary units
|
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: Sherrard, Illinois Description of subject: Sherrard, Illinois is a small village in Mercer County known as a rural residential community in western Illinois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.