Vance Refrigeration
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Vance Refrigeration is a fictional refrigeration sales company in the TV series "The Office," located in the same Scranton business park as Dunder Mifflin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vance Refrigeration canonical | 4 |
| Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9279537 — 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: Vance Refrigeration Context triple: [Phyllis Vance, spouseBusinessName, Vance Refrigeration]
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A.
Heatcraft Refrigeration Products
Heatcraft Refrigeration Products is a leading manufacturer of commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment and systems, known for providing cooling solutions for supermarkets, foodservice, and cold storage applications.
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B.
Modine Manufacturing Company
Modine Manufacturing Company is an American industrial firm known for designing and manufacturing thermal management and heat transfer products for automotive, commercial, and industrial applications.
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C.
Modine
Modine is the surname of American actor Matthew Modine, known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation was a prominent American automobile and appliance manufacturer whose 1954 merger with Hudson Motor Car Company created American Motors Corporation (AMC).
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E.
Lennox International
Lennox International is a major American manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) equipment serving residential and commercial markets 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: Vance Refrigeration Target entity description: Vance Refrigeration is a fictional refrigeration sales company in the TV series "The Office," located in the same Scranton business park as Dunder Mifflin.
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A.
Heatcraft Refrigeration Products
Heatcraft Refrigeration Products is a leading manufacturer of commercial and industrial refrigeration equipment and systems, known for providing cooling solutions for supermarkets, foodservice, and cold storage applications.
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B.
Modine Manufacturing Company
Modine Manufacturing Company is an American industrial firm known for designing and manufacturing thermal management and heat transfer products for automotive, commercial, and industrial applications.
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C.
Modine
Modine is the surname of American actor Matthew Modine, known for his roles in films like "Full Metal Jacket" and the series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation was a prominent American automobile and appliance manufacturer whose 1954 merger with Hudson Motor Car Company created American Motors Corporation (AMC).
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E.
Lennox International
Lennox International is a major American manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) equipment serving residential and commercial markets worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional company
ⓘ
organization in television series ⓘ refrigeration sales company ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Office (U.S. TV series) ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Bob Vance
ⓘ
Phyllis Vance ⓘ |
| city | Scranton ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fictionalStatus | fictional within The Office universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | early seasons of The Office (U.S.) ⓘ |
| founder | Bob Vance ⓘ |
| hasEmployee |
Bob Vance
ⓘ
Phyllis Vance (by marriage/association) ⓘ
linked to:
Phyllis Vance
|
| hasOfficeSuite | suite adjacent to Dunder Mifflin in Scranton Business Park ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryContactNumberStyle | Bob Vance repeatedly says “Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration” ⓘ |
| industry | refrigeration equipment sales ⓘ |
| location | Scranton Business Park ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| mentionedByCharacter |
Bob Vance
ⓘ
Jim Halpert ⓘ Michael Scott ⓘ Pam Beesly ⓘ Phyllis Vance ⓘ |
| neighborOfficeOf |
Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Dunder Mifflin Scranton
|
| owner | Bob Vance ⓘ |
| settingForEvent | Bob and Phyllis’s wedding-related references ⓘ |
| sharesBusinessParkWith |
Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Dunder Mifflin Scranton
|
| sharesParkingLotWith |
Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch
ⓘ
linked to:
Dunder Mifflin Scranton
|
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Vance Refrigeration Description of subject: Vance Refrigeration is a fictional refrigeration sales company in the TV series "The Office," located in the same Scranton business park as Dunder Mifflin.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vance Refrigeration