Harris Corporation
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Harris Corporation was a major American technology and communications company known for its defense, aerospace, and public safety systems, which later merged to form L3Harris Technologies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harris Corporation canonical | 3 |
| L-3 Communications | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5854633 — 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: Harris Corporation Context triple: [L3Harris Technologies, foundedBy, Harris Corporation]
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A.
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris Technologies is a major American defense and aerospace technology company specializing in advanced communications, surveillance, and mission systems for military, government, and commercial customers.
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B.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes, known for pioneering work in aviation, electronics, and space systems.
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C.
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is a leading American aerospace and defense technology company known for developing advanced military aircraft, spacecraft, and defense systems.
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D.
Raytheon Company
Raytheon Company was a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation known for developing advanced military technologies, including missile systems and radar.
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E.
Exelis Inc.
Exelis Inc. was a U.S.-based aerospace, defense, and information solutions company that provided advanced technologies and services to government and commercial customers 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: Harris Corporation Target entity description: Harris Corporation was a major American technology and communications company known for its defense, aerospace, and public safety systems, which later merged to form L3Harris Technologies.
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A.
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris Technologies is a major American defense and aerospace technology company specializing in advanced communications, surveillance, and mission systems for military, government, and commercial customers.
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B.
Hughes Aircraft Company
Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes, known for pioneering work in aviation, electronics, and space systems.
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C.
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is a leading American aerospace and defense technology company known for developing advanced military aircraft, spacecraft, and defense systems.
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D.
Raytheon Company
Raytheon Company was a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation known for developing advanced military technologies, including missile systems and radar.
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E.
Exelis Inc.
Exelis Inc. was a U.S.-based aerospace, defense, and information solutions company that provided advanced technologies and services to government and commercial customers worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace company
ⓘ
defense contractor ⓘ publicly traded company ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customer |
U.S. Department of Defense
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. federal government agencies ⓘ international defense ministries ⓘ |
| focus |
defense electronics
ⓘ
mission-critical communications ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alvin Harris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Melbourne, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1895 ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
communications ⓘ defense ⓘ information technology ⓘ |
| mergedInto | L3Harris Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergerCompletionDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| mergerPartner | L3 Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBusinessArea |
C4ISR systems
ⓘ
air traffic control systems ⓘ public safety radio networks ⓘ space payloads ⓘ tactical communications ⓘ |
| notableSubsidiary |
Harris CapRock Communications
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harris Public Safety and Professional Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ Harris RF Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTechnology | Falcon tactical radio family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Harris Automatic Press Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
air traffic management systems
ⓘ
electronic warfare systems ⓘ public safety communications systems ⓘ satellite communication systems ⓘ space and intelligence systems ⓘ tactical radios ⓘ |
| reasonForStatus | merged to form L3Harris Technologies ⓘ |
| servedSector |
aerospace
ⓘ
commercial ⓘ defense ⓘ government ⓘ public safety ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor | L3Harris Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NYSE:HRS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| type | public company ⓘ |
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: Harris Corporation Description of subject: Harris Corporation was a major American technology and communications company known for its defense, aerospace, and public safety systems, which later merged to form L3Harris Technologies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
L-3 Communications