Allergan
E474948
Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company best known for developing branded drugs and medical aesthetics products, including Botox.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Allergan canonical | 8 |
| Allergan (now part of AbbVie) | 1 |
| Allergan (prior to its acquisition by AbbVie) | 1 |
| Allergan Aesthetics | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4850503 — 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: Allergan Context triple: [Heptares Therapeutics, collaboratesWith, Allergan]
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A.
Bausch + Lomb
Bausch + Lomb is a global eye health company best known for its contact lenses, lens care products, and ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.
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B.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is a multinational healthcare conglomerate best known for its pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health products.
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C.
Novartis
Novartis is a global Swiss-based pharmaceutical company known for developing innovative medicines across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
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D.
Estée Lauder Companies
Estée Lauder Companies is a leading global cosmetics and skincare conglomerate that owns numerous prestigious beauty brands across makeup, fragrance, haircare, and skincare.
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E.
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines, and nutritional products.
- 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: Allergan Target entity description: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company best known for developing branded drugs and medical aesthetics products, including Botox.
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A.
Bausch + Lomb
Bausch + Lomb is a global eye health company best known for its contact lenses, lens care products, and ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.
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B.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is a multinational healthcare conglomerate best known for its pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health products.
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C.
Novartis
Novartis is a global Swiss-based pharmaceutical company known for developing innovative medicines across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
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D.
Estée Lauder Companies
Estée Lauder Companies is a leading global cosmetics and skincare conglomerate that owns numerous prestigious beauty brands across makeup, fragrance, haircare, and skincare.
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E.
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines, and nutritional products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biopharmaceutical company
ⓘ
medical aesthetics company ⓘ pharmaceutical company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | AbbVie ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnounced | 2019 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompleted | 2020 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | about 63 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| country | Ireland ⓘ |
| formerCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Irvine, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Irvine
|
| foundedBy | Gavin S. Herbert ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1950 ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedInState |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| hasSubsidiaryBrand |
Allergan Aesthetics
ⓘ
linked to:
Allergan
|
| headquartersCountry | Ireland ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Dublin ⓘ |
| industry |
biotechnology
ⓘ
medical aesthetics ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Botox
ⓘ
linked to:
Botox (therapeutic and cosmetic)
central nervous system therapies ⓘ dermatology products ⓘ eye care products ⓘ gastrointestinal disease treatments ⓘ medical aesthetics products ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| mergedWith |
Actavis
ⓘ
linked to:
Actavis plc
|
| predecessor | Actavis plc ⓘ |
| product |
Botox
ⓘ
linked to:
Botox (therapeutic and cosmetic)
Juvederm ⓘ Latisse ⓘ Lumigan ⓘ Natrelle breast implants ⓘ Restasis ⓘ |
| productType |
biologics
ⓘ
branded pharmaceuticals ⓘ cosmetic injectables ⓘ medical devices ⓘ |
| rebrandedFrom |
Actavis
ⓘ
linked to:
Actavis plc
|
| regulatoryRegion |
European Medicines Agency jurisdiction
ⓘ
United States Food and Drug Administration jurisdiction ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
dermatology
ⓘ
gastroenterology ⓘ neurosciences ⓘ ophthalmology ⓘ urology ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | AGN ⓘ |
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: Allergan Description of subject: Allergan is a global pharmaceutical company best known for developing branded drugs and medical aesthetics products, including Botox.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Allergan
subject linked to:
Pershing Square Holdings (historical significant shareholder)
linked to: Allergan
linked to: Allergan
subject linked to:
Botox (therapeutic and cosmetic)