Sloan Valve Company
E149815
Sloan Valve Company is an American manufacturer best known for its commercial plumbing products, particularly flush valves and water-efficient fixtures used in public and institutional restrooms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sloan Valve Company canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1312414 — 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: Sloan Valve Company Context triple: [Sloan Park, namedAfter, Sloan Valve Company]
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A.
Steward Machine Company
Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
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B.
Dickson Manufacturing Company
Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
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C.
Vail & Vickers Company
Vail & Vickers Company was a ranching enterprise that long operated cattle and sheep operations on California’s Santa Rosa Island before the land became part of Channel Islands National Park.
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D.
Staley Manufacturing Company
Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
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E.
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
- 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: Sloan Valve Company Target entity description: Sloan Valve Company is an American manufacturer best known for its commercial plumbing products, particularly flush valves and water-efficient fixtures used in public and institutional restrooms.
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A.
Steward Machine Company
Steward Machine Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its role as the petitioner in the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, which upheld key provisions of the Social Security Act.
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B.
Dickson Manufacturing Company
Dickson Manufacturing Company was a historic American builder of steam locomotives and industrial machinery that later became part of the American Locomotive Company through merger.
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C.
Vail & Vickers Company
Vail & Vickers Company was a ranching enterprise that long operated cattle and sheep operations on California’s Santa Rosa Island before the land became part of Channel Islands National Park.
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D.
Staley Manufacturing Company
Staley Manufacturing Company was an early 20th-century American food processing firm, best known for its corn products and for founding the football team that became the Chicago Bears.
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E.
Lubin Manufacturing Company
Lubin Manufacturing Company was an early American film production company and studio, active in the silent era and known for its role in the development of the motion picture industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
manufacturing company ⓘ plumbing manufacturer ⓘ |
| category |
American manufacturing company
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plumbing equipment manufacturer ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
commercial restrooms
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water conservation ⓘ water efficiency ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | business-to-business ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
durable commercial-grade products
ⓘ
water-saving technologies in fixtures ⓘ |
| industry |
building materials
ⓘ
plumbing fixtures ⓘ |
| knownFor |
flush valves
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flushometers ⓘ water-efficient plumbing products ⓘ |
| market |
North America
ⓘ
global commercial plumbing market ⓘ |
| productType |
commercial plumbing products
ⓘ
commercial restroom systems ⓘ faucets ⓘ flush valves ⓘ sensor-operated flush valves ⓘ toilet flushometers ⓘ urinal flushometers ⓘ water-efficient fixtures ⓘ |
| regulates |
water flow in toilets
ⓘ
water flow in urinals ⓘ |
| serves |
commercial buildings
ⓘ
institutional buildings ⓘ public restrooms ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
institutional restroom plumbing systems
ⓘ
public restroom plumbing systems ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
architects
ⓘ
commercial property owners ⓘ institutional facility managers ⓘ plumbing engineers ⓘ |
| usedIn |
airports
ⓘ
hospitals ⓘ office buildings ⓘ schools ⓘ shopping centers ⓘ stadiums ⓘ |
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: Sloan Valve Company Description of subject: Sloan Valve Company is an American manufacturer best known for its commercial plumbing products, particularly flush valves and water-efficient fixtures used in public and institutional restrooms.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.