East Alton, Illinois
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East Alton, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its industrial and manufacturing activities.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| East Alton, Illinois canonical | 4 |
| East Alton, Illinois (corporate, via Olin) | 1 |
| East Alton, Illinois, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9212113 — 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: East Alton, Illinois Context triple: [Madison County, Illinois, hasCity, East Alton, Illinois]
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A.
Alton, Illinois
Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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B.
Allerton, Illinois
Allerton, Illinois is a small village located in eastern Illinois, known for its rural character within Champaign County.
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C.
ALTON
ALTON is a historic market town in Hampshire, England, known for its rural surroundings and connections to the author Jane Austen.
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D.
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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E.
Albany, Illinois
Albany, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois.
- 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: East Alton, Illinois Target entity description: East Alton, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its industrial and manufacturing activities.
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A.
Alton, Illinois
Alton, Illinois is a historic Mississippi River city in southwestern Illinois known for its limestone bluffs, Civil War and abolitionist history, and role as a regional industrial and transportation hub.
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B.
Allerton, Illinois
Allerton, Illinois is a small village located in eastern Illinois, known for its rural character within Champaign County.
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C.
ALTON
ALTON is a historic market town in Hampshire, England, known for its rural surroundings and connections to the author Jane Austen.
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D.
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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E.
Albany, Illinois
Albany, Illinois is a small village in Whiteside County along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryCode | US ⓘ |
| county | Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| currency |
United States dollar
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| governmentType | village board ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 618 ⓘ |
| hasBorderWith |
Alton, Illinois
ⓘ
Hartford, Illinois ⓘ Roxana, Illinois ⓘ Wood River, Illinois ⓘ unincorporated areas of Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
industrial services
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
local schools
ⓘ
parks and recreational areas ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
proximity to major industrial corridors along the Mississippi River
ⓘ
small-community character ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLaw | Illinois state law ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | village government of East Alton ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 62024 ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | FIPS state code 17 (Illinois) ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionCode | FIPS county code for Madison County, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | local road network ⓘ |
| inMetropolitanAreaOf |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| isPartOf |
Greater St. Louis
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
Metro East ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ammunition manufacturing history
ⓘ
industrial activities ⓘ manufacturing activities ⓘ |
| locatedIn | St. Louis metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere |
Northern Hemisphere
ⓘ
Western Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
American Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Midwestern United States
southern Illinois ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
St. Louis, Missouri
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
|
| locatedOnRiver | Mississippi River region ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea |
St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area
ⓘ
linked to:
St. Louis metropolitan area
|
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | village ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
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: East Alton, Illinois Description of subject: East Alton, Illinois is a small village in the St. Louis metropolitan area known historically for its industrial and manufacturing activities.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.