Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County)
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The Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant near Vance, Alabama is a major automotive manufacturing facility that produces Mercedes-Benz SUVs and other vehicles for the North American and global markets.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3209642 — 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: Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County) Context triple: [Tuscaloosa, Alabama, hasManufacturingPlant, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County)]
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A.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Alabama
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Alabama was a major Southern tire-manufacturing facility that served as a long-standing industrial and economic hub for the Gadsden community.
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B.
Atlanta Assembly Plant
The Atlanta Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Hapeville, Georgia, known for producing various Ford and Mercury vehicles over several decades before its closure in 2006.
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C.
Geneva County, Alabama
Geneva County, Alabama is a rural county in the southeastern part of the state known for its agricultural economy and location in the Wiregrass region near the Florida border.
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D.
Lowndes County, Alabama, United States
Lowndes County, Alabama, United States is a rural county in the state's Black Belt region known for its significant role in African American history and the civil rights movement.
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E.
Flat Rock Assembly Plant, Michigan
Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan is a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility best known as one of the primary production sites for the Ford Mustang.
- 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: Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County) Target entity description: The Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant near Vance, Alabama is a major automotive manufacturing facility that produces Mercedes-Benz SUVs and other vehicles for the North American and global markets.
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A.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Alabama
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Alabama was a major Southern tire-manufacturing facility that served as a long-standing industrial and economic hub for the Gadsden community.
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B.
Atlanta Assembly Plant
The Atlanta Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Hapeville, Georgia, known for producing various Ford and Mercury vehicles over several decades before its closure in 2006.
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C.
Geneva County, Alabama
Geneva County, Alabama is a rural county in the southeastern part of the state known for its agricultural economy and location in the Wiregrass region near the Florida border.
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D.
Lowndes County, Alabama, United States
Lowndes County, Alabama, United States is a rural county in the state's Black Belt region known for its significant role in African American history and the civil rights movement.
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E.
Flat Rock Assembly Plant, Michigan
Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan is a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility best known as one of the primary production sites for the Ford Mustang.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
automobile manufacturing plant
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industrial facility ⓘ |
| assemblyType | vehicle assembly ⓘ |
| brand | Mercedes-Benz ⓘ |
| constructionStartDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc.
|
| exportRate | high percentage of production exported ⓘ |
| firstProduct |
Mercedes-Benz GLE
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surface form:
Mercedes-Benz M-Class
|
| floorArea | over 6,000,000 square feet ⓘ |
| hasAssemblyLine | yes ⓘ |
| hasBodyShop | yes ⓘ |
| hasHighwayAccess |
Interstate 20
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Interstate 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPaintShop | yes ⓘ |
| hasParkingFacility | yes ⓘ |
| hasRailAccess | yes ⓘ |
| hasVisitorCenter | Mercedes-Benz Visitor Center (Vance) ⓘ |
| inception | 1995 ⓘ |
| industry | automotive industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Vance, Alabama ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Alabama
ⓘ
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Tuscaloosa metropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Birmingham, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Tuscaloosa, Alabama ⓘ
surface form:
Tuscaloosa
Vance ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | thousands of employees ⓘ |
| operator |
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
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surface form:
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, Inc.
|
| ownedBy |
Mercedes-Benz
ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz AG
Daimler AG ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
|
| partOf | Mercedes-Benz global production network ⓘ |
| primaryFuelType | electricity ⓘ |
| product |
Mercedes-Benz GLE
ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupé
Mercedes-Benz GLE ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class
Mercedes-Benz GLS ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class
Mercedes-Maybach GLS 600 ⓘ
surface form:
Mercedes-Maybach GLS
automobile parts ⓘ sport utility vehicles ⓘ |
| serves |
North American market
ⓘ
global automotive market ⓘ |
| siteArea | approximately 1,000 acres ⓘ |
| startOfProduction | 1997 ⓘ |
| usesManufacturingSystem |
flexible manufacturing system
ⓘ
just-in-time production ⓘ |
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: Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County) Description of subject: The Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant near Vance, Alabama is a major automotive manufacturing facility that produces Mercedes-Benz SUVs and other vehicles for the North American and global markets.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
→
hasManufacturingPlant
→
Mercedes-Benz U.S. International plant (nearby Vance, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County)
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