Perrigo
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Perrigo is a global healthcare company best known for manufacturing and distributing over-the-counter and generic prescription pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, and nutritional items.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perrigo canonical | 2 |
| Perrigo Company plc | 1 |
| The Perrigo Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5981234 — 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: Perrigo Context triple: [Elan Pharmaceuticals, acquiredBy, Perrigo]
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A.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a global pharmaceutical company based in Israel, best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of generic medicines and a producer of specialty and over-the-counter drugs.
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B.
Upjohn Company
Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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C.
Nestlé Health Science
Nestlé Health Science is a global business unit of Nestlé focused on developing science-based nutritional products and therapies for health management and medical nutrition.
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D.
Pfizer
Pfizer is a major American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation known for developing a wide range of prescription medicines and vaccines, including one of the first widely used COVID-19 vaccines.
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E.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is a major U.S. trade association representing leading biopharmaceutical and drug research companies.
- 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: Perrigo Target entity description: Perrigo is a global healthcare company best known for manufacturing and distributing over-the-counter and generic prescription pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, and nutritional items.
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A.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is a global pharmaceutical company based in Israel, best known as one of the world’s largest manufacturers of generic medicines and a producer of specialty and over-the-counter drugs.
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B.
Upjohn Company
Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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C.
Nestlé Health Science
Nestlé Health Science is a global business unit of Nestlé focused on developing science-based nutritional products and therapies for health management and medical nutrition.
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D.
Pfizer
Pfizer is a major American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation known for developing a wide range of prescription medicines and vaccines, including one of the first widely used COVID-19 vaccines.
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E.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America is a major U.S. trade association representing leading biopharmaceutical and drug research companies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
distributor
ⓘ
manufacturer ⓘ |
| coreCompetency |
large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing
ⓘ
store-brand product development ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusArea |
affordable medicines
ⓘ
generic alternatives to branded drugs ⓘ self-care products ⓘ |
| formerName |
The Perrigo Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Perrigo
|
| foundedBy | Luther Perrigo ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Consumer Self-Care Americas
ⓘ
Consumer Self-Care International ⓘ
linked to:
Consumer Healthcare
Prescription Pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.perrigo.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Dublin, Ireland
ⓘ
linked to:
Dublin
|
| inception | 1887 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer healthcare
ⓘ
generic prescription drugs ⓘ nutritional products ⓘ over-the-counter medicines ⓘ pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| legalForm | public limited company ⓘ |
| listedOn | NYSE ⓘ |
| marketScope | global ⓘ |
| notableAcquisition |
Elan Corporation’s Elan Drug Technologies business
ⓘ
linked to:
Elan Pharmaceuticals
Omega Pharma ⓘ |
| operationalHeadquartersLocation |
Allegan, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Allegan, Michigan
|
| primaryCustomers |
pharmacies
ⓘ
retailers ⓘ wholesalers ⓘ |
| productType |
consumer healthcare products
ⓘ
generic prescription pharmaceuticals ⓘ nutritional products ⓘ over-the-counter pharmaceuticals ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Asia-Pacific
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| regulatoryEnvironment |
EMA-regulated
ⓘ
FDA-regulated ⓘ |
| specialization |
private-label consumer healthcare products
ⓘ
store-brand over-the-counter medicines ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | PRGO ⓘ |
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: Perrigo Description of subject: Perrigo is a global healthcare company best known for manufacturing and distributing over-the-counter and generic prescription pharmaceuticals, consumer healthcare products, and nutritional items.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.