The GEO Group
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immigration detention operator
prison operator
private company
publicly traded company
real estate investment trust
The GEO Group is a private American company that owns and operates prisons, immigration detention centers, and community reentry facilities across the United States and internationally.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The GEO Group canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5405609 — 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: The GEO Group Context triple: [Boca Raton, Florida, United States, hasCorporateHeadquarters, The GEO Group]
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A.
Chesapeake Group
The Chesapeake Group is a geologic rock unit in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States, notable for its Miocene-age marine sediments and fossil-rich formations.
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B.
Maryland Correctional Enterprises
Maryland Correctional Enterprises is a state-run prison industry program in Maryland that provides work and job training opportunities to incarcerated individuals through the production of goods and services for government and nonprofit customers.
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C.
Peterson Group
Peterson Group is a property investment and development company known for owning and managing prominent commercial real estate assets in the United Kingdom.
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D.
Trammell Crow Company
Trammell Crow Company is a major American real estate development and investment firm known for developing large-scale commercial properties across the United States.
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E.
Washington Prime Group
Washington Prime Group is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates shopping malls and retail properties across the United States.
- 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: The GEO Group Target entity description: The GEO Group is a private American company that owns and operates prisons, immigration detention centers, and community reentry facilities across the United States and internationally.
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A.
Chesapeake Group
The Chesapeake Group is a geologic rock unit in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the eastern United States, notable for its Miocene-age marine sediments and fossil-rich formations.
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B.
Maryland Correctional Enterprises
Maryland Correctional Enterprises is a state-run prison industry program in Maryland that provides work and job training opportunities to incarcerated individuals through the production of goods and services for government and nonprofit customers.
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C.
Peterson Group
Peterson Group is a property investment and development company known for owning and managing prominent commercial real estate assets in the United Kingdom.
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D.
Trammell Crow Company
Trammell Crow Company is a major American real estate development and investment firm known for developing large-scale commercial properties across the United States.
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E.
Washington Prime Group
Washington Prime Group is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates shopping malls and retail properties across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
immigration detention operator
ⓘ
prison operator ⓘ private company ⓘ publicly traded company ⓘ real estate investment trust ⓘ |
| businessModel | for-profit corrections and detention services ⓘ |
| CEO | Jose Gordo ⓘ |
| chairperson | George C. Zoley ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfHeadquarters |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedAs | Wackenhut Corrections Corporation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
George Wackenhut
ⓘ
Wackenhut Corporation ⓘ |
| hasClient |
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ⓘ
linked to:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Marshals Service ⓘ
linked to:
United States Marshals Service
federal Bureau of Prisons (United States) ⓘ
linked to:
Federal Bureau of Prisons
state governments in the United States ⓘ |
| hasControversy |
allegations of human rights abuses
ⓘ
criticism of profiting from incarceration ⓘ lawsuits over prison conditions ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | Wackenhut Corrections Corporation ⓘ |
| headcountApproximate | over 15,000 employees ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Boca Raton, Florida
ⓘ
linked to:
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
|
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| industry |
community reentry services
ⓘ
corrections ⓘ immigration detention ⓘ private prisons ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| manages |
community-based reentry facilities
ⓘ
correctional facilities ⓘ immigration detention facilities ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Australia
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
other international locations ⓘ |
| owns |
immigration detention centers
ⓘ
prisons ⓘ |
| productOrService |
community reentry programs
ⓘ
electronic monitoring services ⓘ immigration detention management ⓘ prison management ⓘ residential reentry centers ⓘ |
| renamedFrom | Wackenhut Corrections Corporation ⓘ |
| renamedIn | 2003 ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | GEO ⓘ |
| website | https://www.geogroup.com/ ⓘ |
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: The GEO Group Description of subject: The GEO Group is a private American company that owns and operates prisons, immigration detention centers, and community reentry facilities across the United States and internationally.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.