Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
E1022175
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is a major Japanese beverage and food conglomerate best known for its global beer brands and diversified alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink portfolio.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirin Holdings Company, Limited canonical | 3 |
| Kirin Holdings Company Limited | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13136991 — 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: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited Context triple: [New Belgium Brewing Company, parentOrganization, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited]
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A.
Sapporo Breweries
Sapporo Breweries is a major Japanese beer and beverage company best known for producing Sapporo Beer, one of Japan’s oldest and most internationally recognized beer brands.
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B.
Asahi Breweries
Asahi Breweries is a major Japanese beverage company best known for producing Asahi beer and other alcoholic and soft drink products sold worldwide.
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C.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. is a Japanese confectionery and food company best known for products like Pocky and Pretz, as well as its iconic advertising presence in Osaka.
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D.
Asahi Group Holdings
Asahi Group Holdings is a major Japanese beverage and food company best known globally for its beer brands and international brewery acquisitions.
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E.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
- 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: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited Target entity description: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is a major Japanese beverage and food conglomerate best known for its global beer brands and diversified alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink portfolio.
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A.
Sapporo Breweries
Sapporo Breweries is a major Japanese beer and beverage company best known for producing Sapporo Beer, one of Japan’s oldest and most internationally recognized beer brands.
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B.
Asahi Breweries
Asahi Breweries is a major Japanese beverage company best known for producing Asahi beer and other alcoholic and soft drink products sold worldwide.
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C.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. is a Japanese confectionery and food company best known for products like Pocky and Pretz, as well as its iconic advertising presence in Osaka.
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D.
Asahi Group Holdings
Asahi Group Holdings is a major Japanese beverage and food company best known globally for its beer brands and international brewery acquisitions.
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E.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beverage company
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conglomerate ⓘ food company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| brand |
Ichiban Shibori
NERFINISHED
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Kirin Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Fire (coffee) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Gogo-no-Kocha NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Hyoketsu NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Lager NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Mets NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Nama-cha NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Nodogoshi Nama NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Tanrei NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Tropicana (licensed) NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirin Volvic (licensed) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Japan Brewery Company, Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
alcoholic beverages division
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food and dairy products division ⓘ pharmaceuticals and biochemicals division ⓘ soft drinks division ⓘ |
| hasGlobalPresenceIn |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ Oceania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Nakano, Tokyo, Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
alcoholic beverages
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brewing ⓘ food products ⓘ non-alcoholic beverages ⓘ |
| listedOn | Tokyo Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owns |
Lion Nathan (Australia and New Zealand)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philippine-based San Miguel Brewery stake (historical/partial) ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf |
Kirin Beverage Company, Limited
NERFINISHED
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Kirin Brewery Company, Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Japan Brewery Company, Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productCategory |
beer
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coffee beverages ⓘ ready-to-drink beverages ⓘ soft drinks ⓘ spirits and liqueurs ⓘ tea beverages ⓘ wine ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Kirin Beverage Company, Limited
NERFINISHED
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Kirin Brewery Company, Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. NERFINISHED ⓘ Lion Pty Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercian Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Myanmar Brewery Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradedAs | TYO:2503 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: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited Description of subject: Kirin Holdings Company, Limited is a major Japanese beverage and food conglomerate best known for its global beer brands and diversified alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink portfolio.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kirin Holdings Company Limited