Irving Oil
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Irving Oil is a Canadian privately owned energy company best known for its network of gas stations and petroleum refining and distribution operations, primarily in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Irving Oil canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651248 — 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: Irving Oil Context triple: [Irving family, businessHolding, Irving Oil]
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A.
Acadie–Bathurst Titan
Acadie–Bathurst Titan is a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League based in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
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B.
Shawinigan Cataractes
The Shawinigan Cataractes are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Shawinigan, Quebec.
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C.
Toronto Marlboros
The Toronto Marlboros were a storied junior ice hockey team from Toronto, Ontario, long associated with the Toronto Maple Leafs and renowned for developing numerous future NHL stars.
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D.
Orr Hockey Group
Orr Hockey Group is a sports management and player representation agency established by legendary NHL defenseman Bobby Orr to guide and represent professional hockey players.
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E.
Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
- 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: Irving Oil Target entity description: Irving Oil is a Canadian privately owned energy company best known for its network of gas stations and petroleum refining and distribution operations, primarily in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States.
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A.
Acadie–Bathurst Titan
Acadie–Bathurst Titan is a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League based in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
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B.
Shawinigan Cataractes
The Shawinigan Cataractes are a major junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based in Shawinigan, Quebec.
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C.
Toronto Marlboros
The Toronto Marlboros were a storied junior ice hockey team from Toronto, Ontario, long associated with the Toronto Maple Leafs and renowned for developing numerous future NHL stars.
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D.
Orr Hockey Group
Orr Hockey Group is a sports management and player representation agency established by legendary NHL defenseman Bobby Orr to guide and represent professional hockey players.
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E.
Toronto Toros
The Toronto Toros were a 1970s World Hockey Association (WHA) professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
energy company
ⓘ
oil refinery ⓘ privately held company ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Atlantic Canada
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New England ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
northeastern United States ⓘ |
| brand | Irving ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| founder | K. C. Irving ⓘ |
| hasBusinessOperation |
commercial fuels supply
ⓘ
fuel distribution ⓘ gas station network ⓘ heating oil supply ⓘ lubricants supply ⓘ petroleum refining ⓘ |
| hasRetailLocationsIn |
Maine
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ New Brunswick ⓘ New Hampshire ⓘ Newfoundland and Labrador ⓘ Nova Scotia ⓘ Ontario ⓘ Prince Edward Island ⓘ Quebec, Canada ⓘ
surface form:
Quebec
Vermont ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Saint John, New Brunswick ⓘ |
| inception | 1924 ⓘ |
| industry |
fuel retailing
ⓘ
oil and gas ⓘ petroleum refining ⓘ |
| location | Saint John, New Brunswick ⓘ |
| logoUsed | Irving Oil logo ⓘ |
| operates | Irving Oil Refinery ⓘ |
| owns | Irving Oil Refinery ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
J. D. Irving, Limited
ⓘ
surface form:
Irving Group of Companies
|
| product |
asphalt
ⓘ
diesel fuel ⓘ gasoline ⓘ heating oil ⓘ jet fuel ⓘ lubricants ⓘ petrochemicals ⓘ propane ⓘ |
| service |
aviation fuel supply
ⓘ
commercial fuel services ⓘ home heating services ⓘ marine fuel supply ⓘ retail fuel sales ⓘ wholesale fuel supply ⓘ |
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: Irving Oil Description of subject: Irving Oil is a Canadian privately owned energy company best known for its network of gas stations and petroleum refining and distribution operations, primarily in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.