Libbey Glass
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Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation | 1 |
| Libbey | 1 |
| Libbey Glass canonical | 1 |
| Libbey Glass Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6221166 — 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: Libbey Glass Context triple: [Glass City, associatedWith, Libbey Glass]
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A.
Pilkington glass company
Pilkington glass company is a major British glass manufacturer renowned for pioneering the float glass process and supplying glass products worldwide.
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B.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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C.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
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D.
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is a leading American technology company best known for its innovations in specialty glass, ceramics, and advanced materials used in consumer electronics, telecommunications, and scientific applications.
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E.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. is a major Japanese multinational manufacturer best known for producing glass, chemicals, and high-tech materials for industries such as construction, automotive, and electronics.
- 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: Libbey Glass Target entity description: Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
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A.
Pilkington glass company
Pilkington glass company is a major British glass manufacturer renowned for pioneering the float glass process and supplying glass products worldwide.
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B.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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C.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
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D.
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is a leading American technology company best known for its innovations in specialty glass, ceramics, and advanced materials used in consumer electronics, telecommunications, and scientific applications.
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E.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. is a major Japanese multinational manufacturer best known for producing glass, chemicals, and high-tech materials for industries such as construction, automotive, and electronics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
glassware manufacturer ⓘ |
| brand |
Libbey
ⓘ
linked to:
Libbey Glass
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfHeadquarters |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionChannel |
e-commerce
ⓘ
retail ⓘ wholesale ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Edward Drummond Libbey ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Libbey Foodservice
ⓘ
Libbey Home ⓘ
linked to:
Libbey Foodservice
|
| hasManufacturingFacilityIn |
China
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ Netherlands ⓘ Portugal ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSubsidiary |
Crisa
ⓘ
Royal Leerdam ⓘ World Tableware ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Toledo, Ohio
ⓘ
linked to:
Toledo
|
| industry |
drinkware
ⓘ
glassware ⓘ tableware ⓘ |
| knownFor |
barware
ⓘ
mass-produced glassware ⓘ restaurant glassware ⓘ tabletop products ⓘ |
| market |
commercial
ⓘ
consumer ⓘ foodservice industry ⓘ |
| materialUsed |
soda-lime glass
ⓘ
tempered glass ⓘ |
| offersProductCategory |
beer glasses
ⓘ
bowls ⓘ cocktail glasses ⓘ mugs ⓘ pitchers ⓘ plates ⓘ serveware ⓘ tumblers ⓘ wine glasses ⓘ |
| productType |
drinkware
ⓘ
glass drinkware ⓘ tableware ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
bar and nightclub industry
ⓘ
hospitality industry ⓘ restaurant industry ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | NYSE American ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | LBY ⓘ |
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: Libbey Glass Description of subject: Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Libbey Glass
linked to: Libbey Glass
linked to: Libbey Glass