Otis Elevator Company
E39374
Otis Elevator Company is a leading global manufacturer and maintainer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering safety innovations in vertical transportation.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Otis Elevator Company canonical | 22 |
| Otis Worldwide Corporation | 6 |
| OTIS | 1 |
| Otis Elevator Company (via spin-off) | 1 |
| Otis India | 1 |
| Otis Worldwide | 1 |
| Otis global network | 1 |
| Otis global operations | 1 |
| Otis maintenance services | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T305629 — 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: Otis Elevator Company Context triple: [United Technologies Corporation, subsidiary, Otis Elevator Company]
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A.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
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B.
General Electric
General Electric is a major American multinational conglomerate historically known for its leadership in industrial manufacturing, aviation, power, and healthcare technologies.
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C.
American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company was a major U.S. manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives and other heavy machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Reading Company
Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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E.
Edison Manufacturing Company
Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
- 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: Otis Elevator Company Target entity description: Otis Elevator Company is a leading global manufacturer and maintainer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering safety innovations in vertical transportation.
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A.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation was a major American manufacturing and broadcasting conglomerate known for its pioneering role in electrical equipment and its ownership of media assets such as NBC.
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B.
General Electric
General Electric is a major American multinational conglomerate historically known for its leadership in industrial manufacturing, aviation, power, and healthcare technologies.
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C.
American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company was a major U.S. manufacturer of steam and diesel locomotives and other heavy machinery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Reading Company
Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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E.
Edison Manufacturing Company
Edison Manufacturing Company was an early American film production and equipment company created by inventor Thomas Edison that played a key role in the birth of the motion picture industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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elevator manufacturer ⓘ escalator manufacturer ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| coreCapability | vertical transportation engineering ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn | safety innovations in elevators ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| foundedBy | Elisha Otis ⓘ |
| foundedInCity |
Yonkers, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
Yonkers, New York, United States
|
| hasBrand |
Gen2 elevator
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HydroFit elevator ⓘ Link escalator ⓘ SkyRise elevator ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | manufacturing and service ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Judith F. Marks ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 60,000 ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Otis Brazil
ⓘ
Otis China ⓘ Otis France ⓘ Otis Elevator Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Otis India
|
| headquartersLocation |
Farmington, Connecticut
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surface form:
Farmington, Connecticut, United States
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| inception | 1853 ⓘ |
| industry |
elevators
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escalators ⓘ moving walkways ⓘ vertical transportation ⓘ |
| majorCompetitor |
KONE
ⓘ
Mitsubishi Electric ⓘ
surface form:
Mitsubishi Electric elevator division
Schindler Group ⓘ Thyssenkrupp Elevator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering safety elevator
ⓘ
safety brake for elevators ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | building technology ⓘ |
| parentCompany | United Technologies Corporation ⓘ |
| positionHeldByKeyPerson | Chief Executive Officer ⓘ |
| product |
elevator control systems
ⓘ
elevator safety systems ⓘ elevators ⓘ escalators ⓘ moving walkways ⓘ |
| service |
elevator maintenance
ⓘ
escalator maintenance ⓘ modernization of elevators ⓘ modernization of escalators ⓘ |
| spinOffFrom | United Technologies Corporation ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
Otis
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surface form:
OTIS
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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: Otis Elevator Company Description of subject: Otis Elevator Company is a leading global manufacturer and maintainer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways, known for pioneering safety innovations in vertical transportation.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Otis Elevator Company (via spin-off)
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
subject surface form:
United Technologies Corporation
subject surface form:
United Technologies Corporation
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
subject surface form:
Otis Elevator Company
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
this entity surface form:
Otis India
this entity surface form:
OTIS
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
this entity surface form:
Otis global network
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
this entity surface form:
Otis global operations
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide
this entity surface form:
Otis Worldwide Corporation
this entity surface form:
Otis maintenance services
subject surface form:
Bristol, Connecticut