Cemex
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Cemex is a global building materials company headquartered in Mexico, best known as one of the world’s largest producers of cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cemex canonical | 2 |
| Cementos Hidalgo | 1 |
| Cemex España | 1 |
| Cemex Latam Holdings | 1 |
| Cemex Philippines | 1 |
| Cemex UK | 1 |
| Cemex USA | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9481564 — 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: Cemex Context triple: [Davenport, California, cementPlantLaterOperatedBy, Cemex]
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A.
Holcim
Holcim is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials and construction solutions.
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B.
UltraTech Cement
UltraTech Cement is one of India’s largest cement manufacturers and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, known for its extensive presence in the infrastructure and construction sectors.
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C.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
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D.
Los Cedros S.A.
Los Cedros S.A. was an Argentine company known for producing the Heinkel Kabine microcar under license.
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E.
Bechtel Corporation
Bechtel Corporation is a major American engineering, construction, and project management company known for large-scale infrastructure and energy projects 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: Cemex Target entity description: Cemex is a global building materials company headquartered in Mexico, best known as one of the world’s largest producers of cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates.
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A.
Holcim
Holcim is a global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials and construction solutions.
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B.
UltraTech Cement
UltraTech Cement is one of India’s largest cement manufacturers and a flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, known for its extensive presence in the infrastructure and construction sectors.
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C.
Hochtief
Hochtief is a major German-based global construction group known for large-scale infrastructure, engineering, and building projects worldwide.
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D.
Los Cedros S.A.
Los Cedros S.A. was an Argentine company known for producing the Heinkel Kabine microcar under license.
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E.
Bechtel Corporation
Bechtel Corporation is a major American engineering, construction, and project management company known for large-scale infrastructure and energy projects worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
building materials company
ⓘ
cement manufacturer ⓘ multinational company ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
sustainable construction solutions
ⓘ
urbanization and infrastructure development ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Lorenzo Zambrano Gutierrez ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Hidalgo ⓘ |
| hasBrand | Cemex ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Cemex España
ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
Cemex Latam Holdings ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
Cemex Philippines ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
Cemex UK ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
Cemex USA ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
|
| headquartersLocation |
Mexico
ⓘ
Monterrey ⓘ Nuevo León ⓘ |
| inception | 1906 ⓘ |
| industry |
aggregates
ⓘ
building materials ⓘ cement ⓘ ready-mix concrete ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Fernando A. González ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggregates production
ⓘ
being one of the world’s largest cement producers ⓘ global ready-mix concrete operations ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| notableWork | supply of materials for large infrastructure projects worldwide ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 40000 ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| originalName |
Cementos Hidalgo
ⓘ
linked to:
Cemex
|
| positionHeldBy | CEO ⓘ |
| product |
aggregates
ⓘ
cement ⓘ infrastructure solutions ⓘ ready-mix concrete ⓘ urbanization solutions ⓘ |
| slogan | Building a better future ⓘ |
| stockExchange |
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores
ⓘ
New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
CEMEXCPO
ⓘ
CX ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cemex.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: Cemex Description of subject: Cemex is a global building materials company headquartered in Mexico, best known as one of the world’s largest producers of cement, ready-mix concrete, and aggregates.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cemex
linked to: Cemex
linked to: Cemex
linked to: Cemex
linked to: Cemex
linked to: Cemex