IC Corporation
E764645
IC Corporation was the former name of IC Bus, a major North American manufacturer of school and commercial buses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IC Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8902438 — 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: IC Corporation Context triple: [IC Bus, formerName, IC Corporation]
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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation is a diversified American manufacturing and engineering company historically known for its involvement in telecommunications, defense, and industrial products.
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C.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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D.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
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E.
Shin Corporation
Shin Corporation is a major Thai telecommunications and media conglomerate closely associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s business empire.
- 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: IC Corporation Target entity description: IC Corporation was the former name of IC Bus, a major North American manufacturer of school and commercial buses.
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A.
Keio Corporation
Keio Corporation is a major Japanese private railway and transportation company operating rail lines and related services in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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B.
ITT Corporation
ITT Corporation is a diversified American manufacturing and engineering company historically known for its involvement in telecommunications, defense, and industrial products.
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C.
Takenaka Corporation
Takenaka Corporation is a major Japanese architecture, engineering, and construction firm known for designing and building prominent structures domestically and internationally.
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D.
Taisei Corporation
Taisei Corporation is a major Japanese construction and civil engineering company known for leading large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects in Japan and abroad.
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E.
Shin Corporation
Shin Corporation is a major Thai telecommunications and media conglomerate closely associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s business empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bus manufacturer
ⓘ
company ⓘ |
| brandOf |
Navistar International
ⓘ
linked to:
Navistar International Corporation
|
| brandTransitionedTo | IC Bus ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerlyCalled | AmTran ⓘ |
| formerName | American Transportation Corporation ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | IC Bus ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Warrenville, Illinois ⓘ |
| industry | bus manufacturing ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| mainBusiness |
design of buses
ⓘ
manufacture of buses ⓘ |
| market |
commercial transportation
ⓘ
school transportation ⓘ |
| notableProductLine |
IC BE Series
ⓘ
IC CE Series ⓘ IC RE Series ⓘ |
| owner |
Navistar International
ⓘ
linked to:
Navistar International Corporation
|
| parentCompany |
Navistar International
ⓘ
linked to:
Navistar International Corporation
|
| predecessor | American Transportation Corporation ⓘ |
| product |
commercial buses
ⓘ
school buses ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| successor | IC Bus ⓘ |
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: IC Corporation Description of subject: IC Corporation was the former name of IC Bus, a major North American manufacturer of school and commercial buses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.