Pilkington glass company
E337781
Pilkington glass company is a major British glass manufacturer renowned for pioneering the float glass process and supplying glass products worldwide.
All labels observed (13)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3222873 — 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: Pilkington glass company Context triple: [St Helens, knownFor, Pilkington glass company]
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A.
Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain is a major French multinational corporation specializing in the production and distribution of construction materials and high-performance solutions for buildings and industry.
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B.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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C.
Schott AG
Schott AG is a German multinational glass and materials technology company known for its specialty glass, ceramics, and innovative solutions for industries such as optics, electronics, and pharmaceuticals.
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D.
Daum glassworks
Daum glassworks is a renowned French glassmaking company celebrated for its innovative Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs and high-quality artistic glass.
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E.
Carborundum Company
Carborundum Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for pioneering the industrial production of silicon carbide abrasives and related materials.
- 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: Pilkington glass company Target entity description: Pilkington glass company is a major British glass manufacturer renowned for pioneering the float glass process and supplying glass products worldwide.
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A.
Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain is a major French multinational corporation specializing in the production and distribution of construction materials and high-performance solutions for buildings and industry.
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B.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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C.
Schott AG
Schott AG is a German multinational glass and materials technology company known for its specialty glass, ceramics, and innovative solutions for industries such as optics, electronics, and pharmaceuticals.
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D.
Daum glassworks
Daum glassworks is a renowned French glassmaking company celebrated for its innovative Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs and high-quality artistic glass.
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E.
Carborundum Company
Carborundum Company was a prominent American manufacturer best known for pioneering the industrial production of silicon carbide abrasives and related materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
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company ⓘ glass manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | NSG Group ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formerName |
Pilkington glass company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pilkington Brothers Limited
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| foundedBy | Pilkington family ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Pilkington glass company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pilkington Activ
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Insulight
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Optifloat
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Optiwhite
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Pyrodur
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Pyrostop
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Suncool
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| hasProcess |
Pilkington glass company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pilkington float process
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| hasSubsidiary |
Pilkington glass company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Pilkington Automotive
Pilkington glass company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pilkington Building Products
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| hasTechnology |
low-emissivity glass coatings
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self-cleaning glass coatings ⓘ solar control coatings ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
England
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Merseyside ⓘ St Helens ⓘ |
| industry |
building materials
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glass manufacturing ⓘ |
| innovation | commercialization of float glass ⓘ |
| knownFor |
architectural glass
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automotive glass ⓘ float glass process ⓘ |
| market |
automotive industry
ⓘ
construction industry ⓘ specialty glazing applications ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
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Asia-Pacific ⓘ
surface form:
Australasia
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| parentCompany | NSG Group ⓘ |
| product |
automotive glazing
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coated glass ⓘ fire-resistant glass ⓘ float glass ⓘ insulating glass units ⓘ laminated glass ⓘ solar control glass ⓘ toughened glass ⓘ |
| supplies | glass products worldwide ⓘ |
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: Pilkington glass company Description of subject: Pilkington glass company is a major British glass manufacturer renowned for pioneering the float glass process and supplying glass products worldwide.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pilkington
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Brothers Limited
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington float process
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Automotive
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Building Products
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Optifloat
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Optiwhite
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Suncool
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Pyrostop
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Pyrodur
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Insulight
subject surface form:
Pilkington
this entity surface form:
Pilkington Activ