Springfield courthouse
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The Springfield courthouse is a federal judicial facility in Springfield, Illinois, serving as one of the primary locations where the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois conducts its proceedings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Springfield courthouse canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3987802 — 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 courthouse Context triple: [United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, hasCourthouse, Springfield courthouse]
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A.
Springfield City Hall
Springfield City Hall is the central municipal government building of Springfield, housing key administrative offices and serving as the primary venue for official city business and public meetings.
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B.
Kane County Courthouse
The Kane County Courthouse is a historic judicial building and landmark serving as the county's main courthouse in Geneva, Illinois.
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C.
Winchester federal courthouse
The Winchester federal courthouse is a federal judicial building in Winchester, Tennessee, that houses proceedings of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
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D.
Cedar County Courthouse
The Cedar County Courthouse is a historic county government building and judicial center located in Tipton, Iowa.
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E.
Sioux City courthouse
The Sioux City courthouse is a federal courthouse facility in Sioux City, Iowa, that serves as one of the primary locations for proceedings of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
- 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 courthouse Target entity description: The Springfield courthouse is a federal judicial facility in Springfield, Illinois, serving as one of the primary locations where the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois conducts its proceedings.
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A.
Springfield City Hall
Springfield City Hall is the central municipal government building of Springfield, housing key administrative offices and serving as the primary venue for official city business and public meetings.
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B.
Kane County Courthouse
The Kane County Courthouse is a historic judicial building and landmark serving as the county's main courthouse in Geneva, Illinois.
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C.
Winchester federal courthouse
The Winchester federal courthouse is a federal judicial building in Winchester, Tennessee, that houses proceedings of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
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D.
Cedar County Courthouse
The Cedar County Courthouse is a historic county government building and judicial center located in Tipton, Iowa.
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E.
Sioux City courthouse
The Sioux City courthouse is a federal courthouse facility in Sioux City, Iowa, that serves as one of the primary locations for proceedings of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
federal courthouse
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judicial building ⓘ |
| accessibleTo |
attorneys
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jurors ⓘ litigants ⓘ public (subject to security procedures) ⓘ |
| buildingType |
courthouse
ⓘ
office building ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| courtServed | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois ⓘ |
| governingLaw |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
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Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure ⓘ United States Constitution ⓘ federal statutes ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
federal judicial facility
ⓘ
hearing location for federal cases ⓘ trial court venue ⓘ |
| houses |
administrative offices
ⓘ
clerks’ offices ⓘ courtrooms ⓘ judges’ chambers ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Central District of Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory |
Illinois
ⓘ
Sangamon County, Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ⓘ |
| ownedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States federal court system
ⓘ
linked to:
federal judiciary of the United States
|
| primaryUse |
civil case hearings
ⓘ
criminal case hearings ⓘ federal court proceedings ⓘ pretrial proceedings ⓘ sentencing hearings ⓘ |
| securityProvidedBy | United States Marshals Service ⓘ |
| servesAsSeatOf | U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois (Springfield location) ⓘ |
| subjectTo | federal building security regulations ⓘ |
| usedBy |
United States federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
United States judiciary ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. federal courts
|
| usedFor |
bankruptcy-related proceedings (as referred or scheduled)
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bench trials ⓘ federal civil litigation ⓘ federal criminal litigation ⓘ jury trials ⓘ motions and status hearings ⓘ naturalization ceremonies (when scheduled) ⓘ settlement conferences ⓘ |
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 courthouse Description of subject: The Springfield courthouse is a federal judicial facility in Springfield, Illinois, serving as one of the primary locations where the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois conducts its proceedings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
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hasCourthouse
→
Springfield courthouse
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subject linked to:
Judge Constance Harm on The Simpsons