Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
E158365
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.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. canonical | 2 |
| Ezaki Glico | 1 |
| Glico Dairy Products Co., Ltd. | 1 |
| Glico confectionery | 1 |
| Shanghai Ezaki Glico Foods Co., Ltd. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1371366 — 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: Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. Context triple: [Glico Running Man sign, ownedBy, Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.]
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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
Nestlé
Nestlé is a Swiss multinational food and beverage conglomerate and one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies.
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C.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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D.
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. is a major Japanese corporate group centered on railway, real estate, and entertainment businesses, best known for operating the Hankyu and Hanshin railway lines and related enterprises in the Kansai region.
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E.
Kraft Group
Kraft Group is a privately held American conglomerate best known for its ownership of major New England sports franchises and extensive interests in paper, packaging, real estate, and private equity.
- 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: Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. Target entity description: 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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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
Nestlé
Nestlé is a Swiss multinational food and beverage conglomerate and one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies.
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C.
Tokyu Corporation
Tokyu Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and real estate company based in Tokyo, known for operating extensive rail networks and developing commercial and residential areas, particularly around Shibuya.
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D.
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.
Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc. is a major Japanese corporate group centered on railway, real estate, and entertainment businesses, best known for operating the Hankyu and Hanshin railway lines and related enterprises in the Kansai region.
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E.
Kraft Group
Kraft Group is a privately held American conglomerate best known for its ownership of major New England sports franchises and extensive interests in paper, packaging, real estate, and private equity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese company
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confectionery company ⓘ food company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| advertisingLocation |
Dotonbori
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Osaka ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Riiichi Ezaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Almond Chocolate
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Bisco ⓘ Caplico ⓘ Giant Cone ⓘ Glico Curry ⓘ Papico ⓘ Pocky ⓘ Pretz ⓘ |
| hasIconicAdvertising | Glico Running Man sign ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Glico (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
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Glico Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. ⓘ Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Glico Dairy Products Co., Ltd.
Glico Frozen Foods Co., Ltd. ⓘ Glico Nutrition Co., Ltd. ⓘ Glico USA ⓘ Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai Ezaki Glico Foods Co., Ltd.
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| headquartersLocation |
Japan
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Osaka ⓘ Osaka Prefecture ⓘ |
| industry |
confectionery
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food processing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Pocky chocolate-coated biscuit sticks
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Pretz ⓘ
surface form:
Pretz savory biscuit sticks
iconic neon billboard in Osaka ⓘ |
| logoFeature | running man ⓘ |
| market |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ Japan ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Almond Chocolate
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Bisco ⓘ Caplico ⓘ Pocky ⓘ Pretz ⓘ |
| productType |
biscuit stick snack
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chocolate confectionery ⓘ frozen desserts ⓘ ice cream ⓘ instant food ⓘ snack food ⓘ |
| sector | consumer goods ⓘ |
| stockExchange | Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
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: Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Glico Dairy Products Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Shanghai Ezaki Glico Foods Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Ezaki Glico
this entity surface form:
Glico confectionery