Nalco Company
E1002337
Nalco Company is a global water treatment and process improvement firm known for producing industrial chemicals, including the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9500A.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nalco Champion | 1 |
| Nalco Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12783493 — 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: Nalco Company Context triple: [Corexit 9500A, developedBy, Nalco Company]
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A.
Chemours
Chemours is a U.S.-based chemical company known for producing performance chemicals and advanced materials, including the nonstick coating brand Teflon.
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B.
Rohm and Haas
Rohm and Haas is a specialty chemicals company known for producing advanced materials and chemical products used in coatings, electronics, and industrial applications.
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C.
Celanese Corporation
Celanese Corporation is a global specialty materials and chemical company known for producing engineered materials, acetyl products, and other advanced polymers for industrial and consumer applications.
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D.
Olin Corporation
Olin Corporation is a U.S.-based manufacturer best known for its production of chlor-alkali products, epoxy materials, and Winchester ammunition.
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E.
Midland Chemical Company
Midland Chemical Company was an early American chemical manufacturing firm established in the late 19th century by industrial chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who later founded the Dow Chemical Company.
- 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: Nalco Company Target entity description: Nalco Company is a global water treatment and process improvement firm known for producing industrial chemicals, including the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9500A.
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A.
Chemours
Chemours is a U.S.-based chemical company known for producing performance chemicals and advanced materials, including the nonstick coating brand Teflon.
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B.
Rohm and Haas
Rohm and Haas is a specialty chemicals company known for producing advanced materials and chemical products used in coatings, electronics, and industrial applications.
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C.
Celanese Corporation
Celanese Corporation is a global specialty materials and chemical company known for producing engineered materials, acetyl products, and other advanced polymers for industrial and consumer applications.
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D.
Olin Corporation
Olin Corporation is a U.S.-based manufacturer best known for its production of chlor-alkali products, epoxy materials, and Winchester ammunition.
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E.
Midland Chemical Company
Midland Chemical Company was an early American chemical manufacturing firm established in the late 19th century by industrial chemist Herbert Henry Dow, who later founded the Dow Chemical Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
chemical company
ⓘ
company ⓘ water treatment company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Ecolab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
oil and gas production
ⓘ
petrochemicals ⓘ power generation ⓘ refining ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
asset protection
ⓘ
energy efficiency ⓘ water conservation ⓘ |
| formerName | National Aluminate Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedAs | National Aluminate Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Nalco Mobotec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Naperville, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1928 ⓘ |
| industry |
process improvement
ⓘ
specialty chemicals ⓘ water treatment ⓘ |
| knownFor |
process improvement services
ⓘ
producing the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9500A ⓘ water treatment solutions ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Ecolab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Ecolab Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
Corexit 9500A
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
industrial chemicals ⓘ oil spill dispersants ⓘ water treatment chemicals ⓘ |
| regulates | water quality in industrial systems ⓘ |
| serves |
energy sector
ⓘ
industrial customers ⓘ institutional sector ⓘ manufacturing sector ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
industrial water treatment
ⓘ
on-site technical services ⓘ process chemicals ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | NLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Nalco Company Description of subject: Nalco Company is a global water treatment and process improvement firm known for producing industrial chemicals, including the oil spill dispersant Corexit 9500A.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nalco Champion