Mascoutah, Illinois
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Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mascoutah, Illinois canonical | 7 |
| City of Mascoutah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9091750 — 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: Mascoutah, Illinois Context triple: [St. Clair County, Illinois, contains, Mascoutah, Illinois]
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A.
Morrison, Illinois
Morrison, Illinois is a small city in Whiteside County that serves as the county seat and lies within northwestern Illinois.
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B.
Kaskaskia, Illinois
Kaskaskia, Illinois is a historic village on the Mississippi River that served as the first capital of Illinois and one of the earliest European settlements in the region.
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C.
Marseilles, Illinois
Marseilles, Illinois is a small city along the Illinois River in LaSalle County known for its historic canal-era roots and proximity to Starved Rock State Park.
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D.
Nashville, Illinois
Nashville, Illinois is a small city in Washington County known as the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
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E.
Mansfield, Illinois
Mansfield, Illinois is a small rural village in central 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: Mascoutah, Illinois Target entity description: Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
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A.
Morrison, Illinois
Morrison, Illinois is a small city in Whiteside County that serves as the county seat and lies within northwestern Illinois.
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B.
Kaskaskia, Illinois
Kaskaskia, Illinois is a historic village on the Mississippi River that served as the first capital of Illinois and one of the earliest European settlements in the region.
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C.
Marseilles, Illinois
Marseilles, Illinois is a small city along the Illinois River in LaSalle County known for its historic canal-era roots and proximity to Starved Rock State Park.
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D.
Nashville, Illinois
Nashville, Illinois is a small city in Washington County known as the birthplace of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
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E.
Mansfield, Illinois
Mansfield, Illinois is a small rural village in central Illinois known for its agricultural surroundings and close-knit community.
- 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: Mascoutah, Illinois Description of subject: Mascoutah, Illinois is a small city in southwestern Illinois known for its historic downtown and proximity to Scott Air Force Base.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Illinois’s 12th congressional district
linked to: Mascoutah, Illinois
subject linked to:
St. Clair County