Hilti Corporation
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Hilti Corporation is a multinational company specializing in professional construction tools, technologies, and services, best known for its high-quality power tools and fastening systems used on job sites worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hilti Corporation canonical | 1 |
| Hilti Foundation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5025472 — 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: Hilti Corporation Context triple: [Schaan, hasCompanyHeadquarters, Hilti Corporation]
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A.
Mitre Corporation
Mitre Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers, providing systems engineering and advanced technology support primarily to U.S. government agencies.
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B.
Clark Equipment Company
Clark Equipment Company is an American industrial manufacturer historically known for producing construction machinery, material handling equipment, and components such as streetcar bodies.
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C.
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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D.
Starrett Corporation
Starrett Corporation is a prominent New York real estate development and construction firm known for major industrial and commercial projects in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
- 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: Hilti Corporation Target entity description: Hilti Corporation is a multinational company specializing in professional construction tools, technologies, and services, best known for its high-quality power tools and fastening systems used on job sites worldwide.
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A.
Mitre Corporation
Mitre Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers, providing systems engineering and advanced technology support primarily to U.S. government agencies.
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B.
Clark Equipment Company
Clark Equipment Company is an American industrial manufacturer historically known for producing construction machinery, material handling equipment, and components such as streetcar bodies.
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C.
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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D.
Starrett Corporation
Starrett Corporation is a prominent New York real estate development and construction firm known for major industrial and commercial projects in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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construction technology company ⓘ multinational corporation ⓘ |
| brandReputation | high-quality professional tools ⓘ |
| businessModel |
direct sales model
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subscription-based tool fleet management ⓘ |
| country | Liechtenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
innovation in fastening and drilling technologies
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jobsite productivity ⓘ professional users ⓘ safety in construction ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Martin Hilti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Hilti (Great Britain) Limited
NERFINISHED
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Hilti Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Hilti Deutschland NERFINISHED ⓘ Hilti North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Schaan, Liechtenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1941 ⓘ |
| industry |
building materials
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construction ⓘ engineering services ⓘ fastening systems ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ power tools ⓘ |
| legalForm | Aktiengesellschaft ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 30000 ⓘ |
| products |
anchor systems
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cordless tools ⓘ cutting and grinding tools ⓘ demolition hammers ⓘ diamond drilling systems ⓘ direct fastening systems ⓘ firestop systems ⓘ installation systems ⓘ measuring tools ⓘ power tools ⓘ rotary hammers ⓘ software for construction design ⓘ |
| scopeOfOperations | worldwide ⓘ |
| serves |
construction industry
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energy industry ⓘ industrial sector ⓘ infrastructure sector ⓘ |
| services |
engineering support
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logistics services ⓘ on-site technical support ⓘ tool fleet management ⓘ training and education for construction professionals ⓘ |
| tradeName | Hilti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.hilti.group ⓘ |
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: Hilti Corporation Description of subject: Hilti Corporation is a multinational company specializing in professional construction tools, technologies, and services, best known for its high-quality power tools and fastening systems used on job sites worldwide.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hilti Foundation