Putzmeister
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Putzmeister is a German manufacturer renowned for its concrete pumps and other high-performance construction machinery used on major infrastructure projects worldwide.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Putzmeister canonical | 1 |
| Putzmeister America | 1 |
| Putzmeister Concrete Pumps | 1 |
| Putzmeister Iberica | 1 |
| Putzmeister India | 1 |
| Putzmeister Korea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7385046 — 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: Putzmeister Context triple: [Sany Heavy Industry, hasSubsidiary, Putzmeister]
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A.
Bühler
Bühler is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
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B.
Schmitz
Schmitz is one of the two manipulative arsonists who infiltrate the bourgeois household in Max Frisch’s play "Biedermann und die Brandstifter."
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C.
Suter
Suter is a surname of Germanic origin, often associated with individuals of Swiss or German heritage.
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D.
Mennekes
Mennekes is a German electrical engineering company best known in e-mobility for developing the widely adopted Type 2 AC charging connector for electric vehicles.
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E.
Hamm-Brücher
Hamm-Brücher is the hyphenated surname associated with German politician and liberal education advocate Hildegard Hamm-Brücher.
- 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: Putzmeister Target entity description: Putzmeister is a German manufacturer renowned for its concrete pumps and other high-performance construction machinery used on major infrastructure projects worldwide.
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A.
Bühler
Bühler is a German-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
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B.
Schmitz
Schmitz is one of the two manipulative arsonists who infiltrate the bourgeois household in Max Frisch’s play "Biedermann und die Brandstifter."
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C.
Suter
Suter is a surname of Germanic origin, often associated with individuals of Swiss or German heritage.
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D.
Mennekes
Mennekes is a German electrical engineering company best known in e-mobility for developing the widely adopted Type 2 AC charging connector for electric vehicles.
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E.
Hamm-Brücher
Hamm-Brücher is the hyphenated surname associated with German politician and liberal education advocate Hildegard Hamm-Brücher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
construction equipment manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Sany Heavy Industry ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| brand |
Putzmeister Concrete Pumps
ⓘ
linked to:
Putzmeister
|
| color |
orange
ⓘ
yellow ⓘ |
| coreBusiness |
development of concrete pumping technology
ⓘ
manufacture of high-performance construction machinery ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfAcquisition | 2012 ⓘ |
| exportedTo |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Karl Schlecht ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Stuttgart, Germany
ⓘ
linked to:
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
|
| hasKeyPerson | Karl Schlecht ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Putzmeister America
ⓘ
linked to:
Putzmeister
Putzmeister Iberica ⓘ
linked to:
Putzmeister
Putzmeister India ⓘ
linked to:
Putzmeister
Putzmeister Korea ⓘ
linked to:
Putzmeister
|
| headquartersLocation | Aichtal, Germany ⓘ |
| inception | 1958 ⓘ |
| industry |
concrete equipment
ⓘ
construction machinery ⓘ |
| legalForm |
GmbH
ⓘ
linked to:
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
|
| notableFeature |
high pumping heights
ⓘ
high pumping outputs ⓘ |
| notableUse |
Burj Khalifa construction
ⓘ
Three Gorges Dam construction ⓘ
linked to:
Three Gorges Dam
major infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Sany Heavy Industry ⓘ |
| product |
concrete placing boom
ⓘ
concrete pump ⓘ industrial pumps ⓘ mortar machine ⓘ shotcrete machine ⓘ stationary concrete pump ⓘ truck-mounted concrete pump ⓘ tunnel construction equipment ⓘ |
| slogan | We lead the way ⓘ |
| specialization |
high-rise concrete pumping
ⓘ
long-distance concrete pumping ⓘ |
| website | https://www.putzmeister.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: Putzmeister Description of subject: Putzmeister is a German manufacturer renowned for its concrete pumps and other high-performance construction machinery used on major infrastructure projects worldwide.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Putzmeister
linked to: Putzmeister
linked to: Putzmeister
linked to: Putzmeister
linked to: Putzmeister