Total
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Total is the former name of TotalEnergies, a major French multinational oil and gas company that has expanded into broader energy sectors.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5933330 — 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: Total Context triple: [TotalEnergies, formerlyKnownAs, Total]
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Total
Total is an American R&B girl group best known for their 1990s hits and frequent collaborations with Bad Boy Records artists.
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Overall
Overall is an English-language surname borne by various individuals, including figures in sports, politics, and other fields.
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C.
Tally
Tally is a common nickname for Tallahassee, the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida.
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D.
Fuld
Fuld is a surname most notably associated with former Major League Baseball outfielder and current baseball executive Sam Fuld.
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E.
ULTI
ULTI was the stock ticker symbol for Ultimate Software, a former U.S.-based provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and payroll solutions.
- 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: Total Target entity description: Total is the former name of TotalEnergies, a major French multinational oil and gas company that has expanded into broader energy sectors.
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A.
Total
Total is an American R&B girl group best known for their 1990s hits and frequent collaborations with Bad Boy Records artists.
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B.
Overall
Overall is an English-language surname borne by various individuals, including figures in sports, politics, and other fields.
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C.
Tally
Tally is a common nickname for Tallahassee, the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida.
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D.
Fuld
Fuld is a surname most notably associated with former Major League Baseball outfielder and current baseball executive Sam Fuld.
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E.
ULTI
ULTI was the stock ticker symbol for Ultimate Software, a former U.S.-based provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and payroll solutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil and gas company
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public company ⓘ |
| businessSector |
downstream oil and gas
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electricity generation ⓘ petrochemical production ⓘ refining ⓘ renewable energy ⓘ upstream oil and gas ⓘ |
| countryOfIncorporation | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | TotalEnergies ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Compagnie française des pétroles
ⓘ
linked to:
TotalEnergies
|
| hasBusinessDivision |
Exploration & Production
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Gas, Renewables & Power ⓘ Marketing & Services ⓘ Refining & Chemicals ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Total Exploration & Production
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Total Gas & Power ⓘ Total Marketing & Services ⓘ Total Petrochemicals ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | France ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Courbevoie
ⓘ
La Défense ⓘ |
| industry |
energy
ⓘ
oil and gas ⓘ petrochemicals ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world
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expansion into renewable and low‑carbon energy sources ⓘ |
| operatesInCountry |
Angola
ⓘ
Brazil ⓘ France ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Norway ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Russia ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| product |
crude oil
ⓘ
electricity ⓘ liquefied natural gas ⓘ lubricants ⓘ natural gas ⓘ petrochemicals ⓘ refined petroleum products ⓘ solar energy solutions ⓘ |
| rebrandingReason | strategic shift towards broader energy portfolio ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing |
Euronext Paris
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linked to:
Euronext
|
| stockIndexMembership | CAC 40 ⓘ |
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: Total Description of subject: Total is the former name of TotalEnergies, a major French multinational oil and gas company that has expanded into broader energy sectors.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.