Harvard, Illinois
E171901
Harvard, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known for its rural character and annual Milk Days festival, located near the Wisconsin border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harvard, Illinois canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844886 — 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: Harvard, Illinois Context triple: [McHenry County, Illinois, containsCity, Harvard, Illinois]
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A.
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois is a central Illinois city known as a regional hub for education, insurance, and transportation, and for being home to Illinois State University (in adjacent Normal) and major corporate offices.
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B.
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois is a suburban city directly north of Chicago, known for being the home of Northwestern University and its vibrant, diverse community along Lake Michigan.
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C.
Bartlett, Illinois
Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
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D.
Illinois College
Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
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E.
Downers Grove, Illinois
Downers Grove, Illinois is a suburban village west of Chicago known for its commuter-friendly location, strong schools, and mix of residential neighborhoods and commercial districts.
- 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: Harvard, Illinois Target entity description: Harvard, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known for its rural character and annual Milk Days festival, located near the Wisconsin border.
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A.
Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington, Illinois is a central Illinois city known as a regional hub for education, insurance, and transportation, and for being home to Illinois State University (in adjacent Normal) and major corporate offices.
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B.
Evanston, Illinois
Evanston, Illinois is a suburban city directly north of Chicago, known for being the home of Northwestern University and its vibrant, diverse community along Lake Michigan.
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C.
Bartlett, Illinois
Bartlett, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and forest preserves.
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D.
Illinois College
Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois, known as one of the oldest colleges in the state and for its early involvement in abolitionist and reform movements.
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E.
Downers Grove, Illinois
Downers Grove, Illinois is a suburban village west of Chicago known for its commuter-friendly location, strong schools, and mix of residential neighborhoods and commercial districts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
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: Harvard, Illinois Description of subject: Harvard, Illinois is a small city in northern Illinois known for its rural character and annual Milk Days festival, located near the Wisconsin border.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.