New Belgium Brewing Company
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New Belgium Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery best known for its Fat Tire ale and employee-owned, environmentally conscious business practices.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| New Belgium Brewing Company canonical | 11 |
| New Belgium | 1 |
| New Belgium Brewing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2937967 — 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: New Belgium Brewing Company Context triple: [Fort Collins, hasMajorBrewery, New Belgium Brewing Company]
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A.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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C.
Miller Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company is a major American beer brewer best known for brands like Miller Lite and Miller High Life.
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D.
Coors Brewing Company
Coors Brewing Company is a major American beer producer best known for its Coors brand and as part of the Molson Coors Beverage Company.
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E.
Christian Heurich Brewing Company
The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a prominent historic brewery in Washington, D.C., once one of the largest and most successful breweries in the United States.
- 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: New Belgium Brewing Company Target entity description: New Belgium Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery best known for its Fat Tire ale and employee-owned, environmentally conscious business practices.
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A.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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C.
Miller Brewing Company
Miller Brewing Company is a major American beer brewer best known for brands like Miller Lite and Miller High Life.
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D.
Coors Brewing Company
Coors Brewing Company is a major American beer producer best known for its Coors brand and as part of the Molson Coors Beverage Company.
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E.
Christian Heurich Brewing Company
The Christian Heurich Brewing Company was a prominent historic brewery in Washington, D.C., once one of the largest and most successful breweries in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brewery
ⓘ
company ⓘ craft brewery ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Lion Little World Beverages ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| environmentalPolicy |
carbon reduction initiatives
ⓘ
waste reduction and recycling programs ⓘ water conservation practices ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Jeff Lebesch
ⓘ
Kim Jordan ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
Fort Collins, Colorado
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
|
| hasAward | recognition as a leading American craft brewery ⓘ |
| hasCertification |
B Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
B Corporation certification
|
| hasDistributionArea |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
international markets ⓘ |
| hasEmployeeOwnershipHistory | significant employee-owned stake prior to acquisition ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
Asheville brewery
ⓘ
Fort Collins brewery ⓘ
linked to:
Odell Brewing Company
|
| hasKeyPerson | Kim Jordan ⓘ |
| hasMotto | Follow Your Folly ⓘ |
| hasProgram | employee stock ownership plan ⓘ |
| hasStyleSpecialty |
Belgian-inspired beers
ⓘ
India pale ale ⓘ sour beer ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.newbelgium.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Fort Collins, Colorado
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
|
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| industry |
alcoholic beverages industry
ⓘ
brewing industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
B Corporation certification
ⓘ
Fat Tire Amber Ale ⓘ employee ownership practices ⓘ environmentally conscious business practices ⓘ sustainability initiatives ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| location |
Asheville, North Carolina
ⓘ
Fort Collins, Colorado ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
|
| parentOrganization |
Kirin Holdings Company, Limited
ⓘ
Lion ⓘ Lion Little World Beverages ⓘ |
| product |
1554 Black Lager
ⓘ
Fat Tire Amber Ale ⓘ La Folie Sour Brown Ale ⓘ Trippel Belgian-style Ale ⓘ Voodoo Ranger IPA ⓘ |
| sells |
beer
ⓘ
hard seltzer ⓘ |
| usesEnergySource | renewable energy ⓘ |
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: New Belgium Brewing Company Description of subject: New Belgium Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery best known for its Fat Tire ale and employee-owned, environmentally conscious business practices.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: New Belgium Brewing Company
linked to: New Belgium Brewing Company