Beam Suntory
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Beam Suntory is a global spirits company known for its portfolio of leading whisky and other premium alcohol brands, formed after Japan’s Suntory acquired the American firm Beam Inc.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beam Suntory canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5280702 — 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: Beam Suntory Context triple: [Laphroaig distillery, hasOwner, Beam Suntory]
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A.
Yebisu Beer
Yebisu Beer is a premium Japanese beer brand, known for its rich, malty flavor and long brewing tradition under Sapporo Breweries.
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B.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
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C.
Kavalan
Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
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D.
Niigata Sake no Jin
Niigata Sake no Jin is a major annual sake festival in Niigata, Japan, where breweries from across the prefecture gather to offer tastings and promote local rice wine culture.
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E.
Krug
Krug is a prestigious Champagne house from France renowned for its luxury cuvées and craftsmanship, and is part of the LVMH portfolio of high-end wine and spirits brands.
- 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: Beam Suntory Target entity description: Beam Suntory is a global spirits company known for its portfolio of leading whisky and other premium alcohol brands, formed after Japan’s Suntory acquired the American firm Beam Inc.
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A.
Yebisu Beer
Yebisu Beer is a premium Japanese beer brand, known for its rich, malty flavor and long brewing tradition under Sapporo Breweries.
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B.
Sapporo Beer
Sapporo Beer is a well-known Japanese beer brand recognized for its crisp, clean lager and long history as one of Japan’s oldest and most widely exported brews.
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C.
Kavalan
Kavalan is an indigenous Austronesian language of Taiwan, traditionally spoken by the Kavalan people on the island’s northeastern coast.
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D.
Niigata Sake no Jin
Niigata Sake no Jin is a major annual sake festival in Niigata, Japan, where breweries from across the prefecture gather to offer tastings and promote local rice wine culture.
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E.
Krug
Krug is a prestigious Champagne house from France renowned for its luxury cuvées and craftsmanship, and is part of the LVMH portfolio of high-end wine and spirits brands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
spirits company
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subsidiary ⓘ |
| acquired | Beam Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brand |
Auchentoshan
NERFINISHED
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Basil Hayden NERFINISHED ⓘ Bowmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Canadian Club NERFINISHED ⓘ Courvoisier NERFINISHED ⓘ Cruzan Rum NERFINISHED ⓘ Hakushu NERFINISHED ⓘ Hibiki NERFINISHED ⓘ Hornitos NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Beam NERFINISHED ⓘ Knob Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ Laphroaig NERFINISHED ⓘ Maker's Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ Midori NERFINISHED ⓘ Pinnacle Vodka NERFINISHED ⓘ Sauza NERFINISHED ⓘ Sipsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ Sourz NERFINISHED ⓘ Teacher's NERFINISHED ⓘ The House of Suntory NERFINISHED ⓘ Toki NERFINISHED ⓘ Yamazaki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
distribution of premium spirits
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marketing of premium spirits ⓘ production of premium spirits ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 2014 ⓘ |
| formationMethod | acquisition of Beam Inc. by Suntory ⓘ |
| formerName | Beam Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Beam Inc.
NERFINISHED
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Suntory Holdings Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
alcoholic beverages
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spirits ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Suntory Holdings Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
Irish whiskey
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Japanese whisky ⓘ Scotch whisky ⓘ bourbon whiskey ⓘ gin ⓘ liqueurs ⓘ rum ⓘ tequila ⓘ vodka ⓘ whisky ⓘ |
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: Beam Suntory Description of subject: Beam Suntory is a global spirits company known for its portfolio of leading whisky and other premium alcohol brands, formed after Japan’s Suntory acquired the American firm Beam Inc.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.