Curran, Illinois
E463122
Curran, Illinois is a small village located in Sangamon County near the city of Springfield.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Curran, Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2251484 — 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: Curran, Illinois Context triple: [Sangamon County, Illinois, contains, Curran, Illinois]
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A.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Thayer, Illinois
Thayer, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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C.
Kewanee, Illinois
Kewanee, Illinois is a small city in Henry County known historically for its agricultural roots and manufacturing, particularly in farm equipment and boilers.
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D.
Mattoon, Illinois
Mattoon, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois known historically as a regional railroad hub and for its agricultural and manufacturing economy.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
- 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: Curran, Illinois Target entity description: Curran, Illinois is a small village located in Sangamon County near the city of Springfield.
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A.
Somonauk, Illinois
Somonauk, Illinois is a small village in northern Illinois known for its rural character and location spanning LaSalle and DeKalb counties.
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B.
Thayer, Illinois
Thayer, Illinois is a small village located in central Illinois within the Springfield metropolitan area.
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C.
Kewanee, Illinois
Kewanee, Illinois is a small city in Henry County known historically for its agricultural roots and manufacturing, particularly in farm equipment and boilers.
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D.
Mattoon, Illinois
Mattoon, Illinois is a small city in east-central Illinois known historically as a regional railroad hub and for its agricultural and manufacturing economy.
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E.
Ivesdale, Illinois
Ivesdale, Illinois is a small rural village located in central Illinois within Champaign County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 217 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Sangamon County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 17-18077 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 2398749 ⓘ |
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasName | Curran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Village of Curran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | village ⓘ |
| isInRegion | Central Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Census-designated places NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Illinois
ⓘ
Sangamon County, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedNear | Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Springfield, Illinois metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 62670 ⓘ |
| 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: Curran, Illinois Description of subject: Curran, Illinois is a small village located in Sangamon County near the city of Springfield.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.