Sheridan, Illinois
E405527
Sheridan, Illinois is a small village in LaSalle County known for its scenic location along the Fox River in north-central Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheridan, Illinois canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1606891 — 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: Sheridan, Illinois Context triple: [Fox River (Illinois–Wisconsin), passesThrough, Sheridan, Illinois]
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A.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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B.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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C.
Steger, Illinois
Steger, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area that spans both Will and Cook counties.
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D.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
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E.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- 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: Sheridan, Illinois Target entity description: 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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A.
Elwood, Illinois
Elwood, Illinois is a small village in northeastern Illinois known for its rural character and proximity to major transportation and logistics hubs.
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B.
Winfield, Illinois
Winfield, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area known for its residential character and proximity to major medical and forest preserve facilities.
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C.
Steger, Illinois
Steger, Illinois is a suburban village in the Chicago metropolitan area that spans both Will and Cook counties.
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D.
Braidwood, Illinois
Braidwood, Illinois is a small city in northeastern Illinois known historically as a coal mining community and later for hosting the Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station.
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E.
Newark, Illinois
Newark, Illinois is a small rural village in northern Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode |
779
ⓘ
815 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | LaSalle County, Illinois ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 627 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-69388 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2399852 ⓘ |
| hasFeature | scenic location along the Fox River ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasLatitude | 41.5306° N ⓘ |
| hasLeaderTitle | village president ⓘ |
| hasLongitude | 88.6803° W ⓘ |
| isInRegion | north-central Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
LaSalle County, Illinois
ⓘ
north-central Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Fox River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ottawa–Streator Micropolitan Statistical Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Ottawa–Peru Micropolitan Statistical Area
|
| postalCode | 60551 ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| UTCOffset | −6 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDST | −5 ⓘ |
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: Sheridan, Illinois Description of subject: Sheridan, Illinois is a small village in LaSalle County known for its scenic location along the Fox River in north-central Illinois.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.