Dow Jones Utility Average
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The Dow Jones Utility Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major utility companies, primarily in the electricity and natural gas sectors.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dow Jones Utility Average canonical | 8 |
| Dow Jones Utilities Average | 1 |
| Dow Jones Utility Index | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1381066 — 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: Dow Jones Utility Average Context triple: [S&P Dow Jones Indices, product, Dow Jones Utility Average]
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A.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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B.
Dow Jones Transportation Average
The Dow Jones Transportation Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major transportation companies, including railroads, airlines, and trucking firms.
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C.
Russell 1000 Index
The Russell 1000 Index is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies, representing the large-cap segment of the American equity market.
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D.
Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index
The Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of major U.S.-listed automobile manufacturing companies.
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E.
S&P 500 Index
The S&P 500 Index is a major U.S. stock market benchmark that tracks the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies listed on American exchanges.
- 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: Dow Jones Utility Average Target entity description: The Dow Jones Utility Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major utility companies, primarily in the electricity and natural gas sectors.
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A.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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B.
Dow Jones Transportation Average
The Dow Jones Transportation Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major transportation companies, including railroads, airlines, and trucking firms.
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C.
Russell 1000 Index
The Russell 1000 Index is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of the 1,000 largest publicly traded companies, representing the large-cap segment of the American equity market.
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D.
Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index
The Dow Jones U.S. Auto Manufacturers Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of major U.S.-listed automobile manufacturing companies.
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E.
S&P 500 Index
The S&P 500 Index is a major U.S. stock market benchmark that tracks the performance of 500 large publicly traded companies listed on American exchanges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
equity index
ⓘ
stock market index ⓘ utility stock index ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Dow Jones Utility Average
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surface form:
Dow Jones Utilities Average
Dow Jones Utility Average ⓘ
surface form:
Dow Jones Utility Index
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| assetClass | equities ⓘ |
| baseCurrency | US dollar ⓘ |
| calculatedOn | trading days of U.S. stock exchanges ⓘ |
| calculationMethod | price-weighted average of component stocks ⓘ |
| category |
U.S. stock market indices
ⓘ
utility sector indices ⓘ |
| componentCount | 15 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataFrequency |
end-of-day
ⓘ
real-time ⓘ |
| dataVendorCode | DJU ⓘ |
| exchangeListingOfComponents |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
electric power utilities
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gas utilities ⓘ major U.S. utility companies ⓘ regulated utility companies ⓘ |
| geographicFocus | United States utilities ⓘ |
| hasComponentType | common stocks ⓘ |
| historicalUse | barometer of U.S. utility sector performance ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
United States federal securities markets
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. stock market
|
| maintainedBy |
S&P Dow Jones Indices
ⓘ
surface form:
S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC
|
| marketSegment | defensive stocks ⓘ |
| operator | S&P Dow Jones Indices ⓘ |
| partOf | Dow Jones Averages ⓘ |
| publisher | Dow Jones & Company ⓘ |
| publisherType | financial news and data company ⓘ |
| regulatoryEnvironmentOfConstituents | regulated utility industry in the United States ⓘ |
| relatedIndex |
Dow Jones Industrial Average
ⓘ
Dow Jones Transportation Average ⓘ S&P 500 Utilities ⓘ |
| riskProfile | lower volatility relative to broad equity market ⓘ |
| sectorFocus |
electricity
ⓘ
natural gas ⓘ utilities ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | ^DJU ⓘ |
| usedFor |
benchmarking utility stocks
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investment product underlyings ⓘ sector analysis ⓘ tracking performance of U.S. utility sector ⓘ |
| weightingMethod | price-weighted ⓘ |
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: Dow Jones Utility Average Description of subject: The Dow Jones Utility Average is a U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of major utility companies, primarily in the electricity and natural gas sectors.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dow Jones Utilities Average
this entity surface form:
Dow Jones Utility Index