Edgar County, Illinois
E446062
Edgar County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and county seat, Paris.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgar County, Illinois canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2630905 — 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: Edgar County, Illinois Context triple: [Central Illinois, contains, Edgar County, Illinois]
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A.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Sangamon County, Illinois
Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
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D.
Edwards County, Illinois
Edwards County, Illinois is a small, rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and historic Midwestern communities.
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E.
Livingston County, Illinois
Livingston County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the state of Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities centered around the city of Pontiac.
- 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: Edgar County, Illinois Target entity description: Edgar County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and county seat, Paris.
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A.
Douglas County, Illinois
Douglas County, Illinois is a small, predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and small communities such as Tuscola, its county seat.
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B.
Madison County, Illinois
Madison County, Illinois is a county in southwestern Illinois that forms part of the St. Louis metropolitan area, encompassing a mix of industrial cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
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C.
Sangamon County, Illinois
Sangamon County, Illinois is a central Illinois county whose seat and largest city is Springfield, the state capital and home to numerous Abraham Lincoln historic sites.
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D.
Edwards County, Illinois
Edwards County, Illinois is a small, rural county in southeastern Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and historic Midwestern communities.
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E.
Livingston County, Illinois
Livingston County, Illinois is a largely rural county in the state of Illinois known for its agricultural economy and small communities centered around the city of Pontiac.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative territorial entity
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Clark County, Illinois
ⓘ
Coles County, Illinois ⓘ Douglas County, Illinois ⓘ Vermilion County, Illinois ⓘ Vermillion County, Indiana ⓘ Vigo County, Indiana ⓘ |
| characteristic | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| contains | Paris, Illinois ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Paris, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasISO3166-2Code | US-IL ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver |
Paris, Illinois
ⓘ
rural townships ⓘ |
| hasLandUse | agricultural ⓘ |
| hasMajorEconomicSector | agriculture ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLandCover | farmland ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural county ⓘ |
| hasTransportationInfrastructure |
county roads
ⓘ
state highways ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ east-central Illinois ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| partOf |
State of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
|
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Edgar County, Illinois Description of subject: Edgar County, Illinois is a predominantly rural county in east-central Illinois known for its agricultural landscape and county seat, Paris.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.