Wacoal
E323147
Wacoal is a Japanese company best known as a leading manufacturer and retailer of women's lingerie and intimate apparel.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wacoal canonical | 3 |
| Wacoal America | 1 |
| Wacoal China | 1 |
| Wacoal Europe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3046283 — 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: Wacoal Context triple: [Spiral Building, owner, Wacoal]
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A.
Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans was a British stage and film actress known for her sophisticated roles in early 20th-century cinema, including appearances in several Alfred Hitchcock films.
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B.
Bata
Bata is a major port city on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, serving as a key economic and transportation hub for the country.
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C.
Semler
Semler is a German surname most notably associated with Johann Salomo Semler, an influential 18th-century biblical scholar and theologian.
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D.
Ursula Jeans
Ursula Jeans was a British stage and film actress known for her versatile character roles in mid-20th-century cinema and theatre.
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E.
Trottiera
Trottiera is one of the traditional bells housed in St Mark's Campanile in Venice, historically used to signal specific civic or religious events.
- 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: Wacoal Target entity description: Wacoal is a Japanese company best known as a leading manufacturer and retailer of women's lingerie and intimate apparel.
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A.
Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans was a British stage and film actress known for her sophisticated roles in early 20th-century cinema, including appearances in several Alfred Hitchcock films.
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B.
Bata
Bata is a major port city on the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, serving as a key economic and transportation hub for the country.
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C.
Semler
Semler is a German surname most notably associated with Johann Salomo Semler, an influential 18th-century biblical scholar and theologian.
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D.
Ursula Jeans
Ursula Jeans was a British stage and film actress known for her versatile character roles in mid-20th-century cinema and theatre.
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E.
Trottiera
Trottiera is one of the traditional bells housed in St Mark's Campanile in Venice, historically used to signal specific civic or religious events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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corporation ⓘ intimate apparel brand ⓘ lingerie manufacturer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
CW-X
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L'ge ⓘ Salute ⓘ Wacoal self-link ⓘ Wing ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
manufacturer
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retailer ⓘ wholesaler ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite |
https://www.wacoal.com
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https://www.wacoal.jp ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Wacoal
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Wacoal America
Wacoal self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wacoal China
Wacoal self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wacoal Europe
|
| headquartersLocation |
Kyoto
ⓘ
surface form:
Kyoto, Japan
|
| industry |
clothing
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intimate apparel ⓘ lingerie ⓘ retail ⓘ textiles ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fit-focused bras
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high-quality women's lingerie ⓘ wide size range in intimate apparel ⓘ |
| listedOn | Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| marketPosition |
global lingerie brand
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leading lingerie manufacturer in Japan ⓘ |
| operatesInMarket |
Asia
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China ⓘ Europe ⓘ Japan ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| primaryProduct |
bras
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intimate apparel ⓘ panties ⓘ shapewear ⓘ women's lingerie ⓘ |
| productCategory |
hosiery
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loungewear ⓘ sleepwear ⓘ sports bras ⓘ women's underwear ⓘ |
| targetCustomer | women ⓘ |
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: Wacoal Description of subject: Wacoal is a Japanese company best known as a leading manufacturer and retailer of women's lingerie and intimate apparel.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wacoal America
this entity surface form:
Wacoal Europe
this entity surface form:
Wacoal China