Anchor Brewing Company
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Anchor Brewing Company is a historic San Francisco brewery widely regarded as a pioneer of the American craft beer movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anchor Brewing Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10532928 — 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: Anchor Brewing Company Context triple: [Potrero Hill, hasLandmark, Anchor Brewing Company]
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A.
Olympia Brewing Company
Olympia Brewing Company was a historic American brewery based in Tumwater, Washington, best known for its Olympia Beer and its long-running “It’s the Water” advertising slogan.
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B.
Rainier Brewing Company
Rainier Brewing Company is a historic Pacific Northwest brewery best known for its Rainier Beer brand and its long association with Seattle and regional baseball culture.
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C.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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D.
Griffin Brewery
Griffin Brewery is a historic London brewery best known as the home of Fuller’s beers and its long association with nearby Griffin Park football stadium.
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E.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Anchor Brewing Company Target entity description: Anchor Brewing Company is a historic San Francisco brewery widely regarded as a pioneer of the American craft beer movement.
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A.
Olympia Brewing Company
Olympia Brewing Company was a historic American brewery based in Tumwater, Washington, best known for its Olympia Beer and its long-running “It’s the Water” advertising slogan.
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B.
Rainier Brewing Company
Rainier Brewing Company is a historic Pacific Northwest brewery best known for its Rainier Beer brand and its long association with Seattle and regional baseball culture.
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C.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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D.
Griffin Brewery
Griffin Brewery is a historic London brewery best known as the home of Fuller’s beers and its long association with nearby Griffin Park football stadium.
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E.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beer brand
ⓘ
brewery ⓘ company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Sapporo Holdings ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| city | San Francisco ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionArea |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California (state)
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employs | brewmasters ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Gottlieb Brekle ⓘ |
| hasAlcoholLicenseType | beer manufacturer ⓘ |
| hasBrewingStyle |
craft beer
ⓘ
steam beer ⓘ |
| hasHeritageStatus | historic San Francisco brewery ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Fritz Maytag ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Anchor Brewing Company logo ⓘ |
| hasMotto | America’s First Craft Brewery (marketing claim) ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | 100-500 (approximate, historical) ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
small-batch brewing
ⓘ
traditional brewing methods ⓘ |
| hasTastingRoom | public taproom (historically) ⓘ |
| hasTour | brewery tours (historically offered) ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.anchorbrewing.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| inception | 1896 ⓘ |
| industry |
alcoholic beverages
ⓘ
brewing ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Potrero Hill, San Francisco ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ |
| market | United States beer market ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Anchor Steam Beer
ⓘ
pioneering the American craft beer movement ⓘ reviving steam beer style ⓘ |
| originalName | Golden City Brewery ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Fritz Maytag (historically)
ⓘ
linked to:
Fritz Maytag
Sapporo Holdings ⓘ |
| ownershipChange |
Fritz Maytag purchased controlling interest in 1965
ⓘ
linked to:
Maytag Dairy Farms
|
| product |
Anchor Porter
ⓘ
Anchor Steam Beer ⓘ Christmas Ale ⓘ Liberty Ale ⓘ Old Foghorn Barleywine ⓘ |
| roleInIndustry | pioneer of American craft beer movement ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| usesEquipment | copper brewhouse ⓘ |
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: Anchor Brewing Company Description of subject: Anchor Brewing Company is a historic San Francisco brewery widely regarded as a pioneer of the American craft beer movement.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.