Scantron
E474864
Scantron is an American company best known for its machine-readable testing and assessment forms and related educational technology services.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scantron canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4839643 — 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: Scantron Context triple: [Eagan, Minnesota, headquartersLocationOf, Scantron]
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A.
OMR
OMR is the official currency code used to represent the Omani rial, the national currency of Oman.
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B.
OMR
OMR refers to the European Union’s outermost regions, which are geographically distant territories fully integrated into the EU and subject to its laws and policies.
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C.
CompuMark
CompuMark is a trademark research and brand protection company that provides data and analytics services to help businesses manage and safeguard their intellectual property portfolios.
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D.
Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg, best known for its intense psychic warfare and iconic head-explosion scene.
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E.
Proscan
Proscan is a consumer electronics brand known for producing affordable televisions and related audio-visual equipment.
- 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: Scantron Target entity description: Scantron is an American company best known for its machine-readable testing and assessment forms and related educational technology services.
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A.
OMR
OMR is the official currency code used to represent the Omani rial, the national currency of Oman.
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B.
OMR
OMR refers to the European Union’s outermost regions, which are geographically distant territories fully integrated into the EU and subject to its laws and policies.
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C.
CompuMark
CompuMark is a trademark research and brand protection company that provides data and analytics services to help businesses manage and safeguard their intellectual property portfolios.
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D.
Scanners
Scanners is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg, best known for its intense psychic warfare and iconic head-explosion scene.
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E.
Proscan
Proscan is a consumer electronics brand known for producing affordable televisions and related audio-visual equipment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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educational technology company ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
multiple-choice testing
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standardized exams ⓘ test scoring machines ⓘ |
| brandGenericization | term "Scantron" sometimes used generically for bubble test sheets in the United States ⓘ |
| businessModel |
providing scoring and reporting services
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providing software-based assessment solutions ⓘ selling forms and scanners ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| dataTypeHandled |
evaluation data
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survey responses ⓘ test responses ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
automated data capture
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bubble-style response areas ⓘ machine-readable answer sheets ⓘ |
| industry |
assessment technology
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educational technology ⓘ testing services ⓘ |
| market |
assessment and testing market
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education sector ⓘ |
| notableFor |
machine-readable testing forms
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optical mark recognition forms ⓘ standardized test answer sheets ⓘ |
| productOrService |
assessment forms
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data collection solutions ⓘ educational technology services ⓘ machine-readable testing forms ⓘ optical mark recognition scanners ⓘ test scoring services ⓘ |
| serves |
businesses
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certification programs ⓘ colleges ⓘ government agencies ⓘ schools ⓘ universities ⓘ |
| technology |
automated test scoring
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optical mark recognition ⓘ |
| usedFor |
classroom assessments
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course evaluations ⓘ standardized testing ⓘ surveys ⓘ |
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: Scantron Description of subject: Scantron is an American company best known for its machine-readable testing and assessment forms and related educational technology services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.