Champaign County, Illinois
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Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Champaign County, Illinois canonical | 138 |
| Champaign County | 10 |
| St. Joseph area of Champaign County, Illinois | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T100475 — 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: Champaign County, Illinois Context triple: [Urbana, Illinois, United States, county, Champaign County, Illinois]
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A.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Lake County, Illinois
Lake County, Illinois is a suburban county north of Chicago known for its mix of residential communities, forest preserves, and commuter connections into the city.
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E.
Kendall County, Illinois
Kendall County, Illinois is a rapidly growing suburban county in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its mix of residential communities, farmland, and small towns such as Yorkville and Oswego.
- 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: Champaign County, Illinois Target entity description: Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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A.
Kane County, Illinois
Kane County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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B.
DuPage County, Illinois
DuPage County, Illinois is a suburban county west of Chicago known for its affluent communities, extensive forest preserves, and role as a major component of the Chicago metropolitan area.
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C.
McHenry County, Illinois
McHenry County, Illinois is a suburban county in northeastern Illinois that forms part of the greater Chicago metropolitan area.
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D.
Lake County, Illinois
Lake County, Illinois is a suburban county north of Chicago known for its mix of residential communities, forest preserves, and commuter connections into the city.
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E.
Kendall County, Illinois
Kendall County, Illinois is a rapidly growing suburban county in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its mix of residential communities, farmland, and small towns such as Yorkville and Oswego.
- 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: Champaign County, Illinois Description of subject: Champaign County, Illinois is a county in east-central Illinois known for encompassing the cities of Champaign and Urbana and being home to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Referenced by (149)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Roselawn Cemetery, Champaign, Illinois, United States
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locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Champaign County, Illinois
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subject linked to:
Parkland College (nearby, in Champaign)
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois
subject linked to:
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Board of Trustees of Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District
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appliesToJurisdiction
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Champaign County, Illinois
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subject linked to:
Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois
linked to: Champaign County, Illinois