Weatherford International
E420036
Weatherford International is a multinational oilfield services company that provides equipment, technology, and solutions for drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weatherford International canonical | 2 |
| Weatherford International, LLC | 1 |
| Weatherford Oil Tool Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4181461 — 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: Weatherford International Context triple: [Halliburton, hasCompetitor, Weatherford International]
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A.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
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B.
Schlumberger
Schlumberger is a leading global oilfield services company that provides technology, project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas industry.
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C.
Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil is a major American independent energy company focused on the exploration, production, and marketing of oil and natural gas.
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D.
Hughes Tool Company
Hughes Tool Company was an American industrial firm best known for manufacturing innovative oil drilling equipment and serving as the financial foundation of Howard Hughes’s business empire.
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E.
Flint Hills Resources
Flint Hills Resources is a major U.S.-based refining, chemicals, and biofuels company known for operating large petroleum refineries and related manufacturing facilities.
- 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: Weatherford International Target entity description: Weatherford International is a multinational oilfield services company that provides equipment, technology, and solutions for drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells.
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A.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
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B.
Schlumberger
Schlumberger is a leading global oilfield services company that provides technology, project management, and information solutions to the oil and gas industry.
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C.
Marathon Oil
Marathon Oil is a major American independent energy company focused on the exploration, production, and marketing of oil and natural gas.
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D.
Hughes Tool Company
Hughes Tool Company was an American industrial firm best known for manufacturing innovative oil drilling equipment and serving as the financial foundation of Howard Hughes’s business empire.
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E.
Flint Hills Resources
Flint Hills Resources is a major U.S.-based refining, chemicals, and biofuels company known for operating large petroleum refineries and related manufacturing facilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
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oilfield services company ⓘ |
| areaServed | global ⓘ |
| competitor |
Baker Hughes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Halliburton NERFINISHED ⓘ Schlumberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| completedRestructuring | 2019 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| filedForChapter11Bankruptcy | 2019 ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Baar, Switzerland
ⓘ
Bermuda (United Kingdom) ⓘ
surface form:
Bermuda
Geneva ⓘ
surface form:
Geneva, Switzerland
|
| foundedAs |
Weatherford International
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Weatherford Oil Tool Company
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| founder | Jesse E. Hall Sr. ⓘ |
| hasClient |
independent oil and gas companies
ⓘ
integrated oil companies ⓘ national oil companies ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Weatherford International
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Weatherford International, LLC
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| headquartersLocation | Houston, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 1941 ⓘ |
| industry |
energy services
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oilfield services ⓘ |
| listedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| previouslyListedOn | New York Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousTickerSymbol | WFT ⓘ |
| products |
artificial lift systems
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cementing products ⓘ completion systems ⓘ drilling equipment ⓘ production chemicals ⓘ tubular running services equipment ⓘ well construction tools ⓘ wireline tools ⓘ |
| providesSolutionsFor |
drilling optimization
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production enhancement ⓘ reservoir evaluation ⓘ well integrity ⓘ |
| providesTechnologyFor |
offshore oil and gas wells
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onshore oil and gas wells ⓘ |
| relistedOnPublicExchange | 2021 ⓘ |
| segment |
Drilling and Evaluation
ⓘ
Production and Intervention ⓘ Well Construction and Completions ⓘ |
| services |
drilling services
ⓘ
production optimization services ⓘ well completion services ⓘ well evaluation services ⓘ well intervention services ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WFRD ⓘ |
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: Weatherford International Description of subject: Weatherford International is a multinational oilfield services company that provides equipment, technology, and solutions for drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention of oil and natural gas wells.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Weatherford Oil Tool Company
this entity surface form:
Weatherford International, LLC