Beneke Fabricators
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Beneke Fabricators is a fictional manufacturing company in the TV series "Breaking Bad," known primarily as the workplace of Skyler White and a front for financial misconduct.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beneke Fabricators canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10604309 — 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: Beneke Fabricators Context triple: [Skyler White, employer, Beneke Fabricators]
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A.
Walker Manufacturing Company
Walker Manufacturing Company was the business enterprise founded by Madam C. J. Walker that produced and sold her pioneering hair care products for African American women.
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B.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a major American conglomerate best known for its diversified operations in electronics, defense, and industrial manufacturing during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Humphrey-Weidman Company
The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
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D.
J. E. Greiner Company
J. E. Greiner Company was an American engineering and consulting firm known for its prominent bridge and transportation infrastructure designs in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Castellini Company
Castellini Company is a long-established, family-owned produce distribution and logistics firm in the United States, known for supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to retailers, foodservice operators, and other customers.
- 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: Beneke Fabricators Target entity description: Beneke Fabricators is a fictional manufacturing company in the TV series "Breaking Bad," known primarily as the workplace of Skyler White and a front for financial misconduct.
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A.
Walker Manufacturing Company
Walker Manufacturing Company was the business enterprise founded by Madam C. J. Walker that produced and sold her pioneering hair care products for African American women.
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B.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a major American conglomerate best known for its diversified operations in electronics, defense, and industrial manufacturing during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Humphrey-Weidman Company
The Humphrey-Weidman Company was a pioneering American modern dance company founded by choreographers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, known for developing innovative movement techniques and shaping early 20th-century modern dance.
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D.
J. E. Greiner Company
J. E. Greiner Company was an American engineering and consulting firm known for its prominent bridge and transportation infrastructure designs in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Castellini Company
Castellini Company is a long-established, family-owned produce distribution and logistics firm in the United States, known for supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to retailers, foodservice operators, and other customers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional company
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manufacturing company ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Breaking Bad ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
IRS investigation
ⓘ
financial misconduct ⓘ tax fraud ⓘ |
| connectedToTheme |
money laundering
ⓘ
moral compromise ⓘ tax evasion ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| employsFictionalCharacter |
Skyler White
ⓘ
Skyler White as accountant ⓘ Skyler White as bookkeeper ⓘ Ted Beneke ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Breaking Bad ⓘ |
| hasBusinessProblem |
cooked books
ⓘ
insolvency risk ⓘ unpaid back taxes ⓘ |
| hasEmployeeRole |
accountant
ⓘ
bookkeeper ⓘ |
| hasFictionalFounder | Ted Beneke ⓘ |
| industry | metal fabrication ⓘ |
| involvedInStorylineWith |
Internal Revenue Service
ⓘ
Skyler White ⓘ Ted Beneke ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| location | Albuquerque ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
create financial pressure on main characters
ⓘ
illustrate white-collar crime ⓘ |
| owner | Ted Beneke ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
Breaking Bad universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul universe
|
| plotFocusSeason |
Breaking Bad Season 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Breaking Bad season 3
Breaking Bad Season 4 ⓘ
linked to:
Breaking Bad season 4
|
| screenGenre |
crime drama
ⓘ
neo-Western ⓘ |
| storyArc |
Skyler arranges anonymous payment of IRS debt
ⓘ
Skyler attempts to fix company’s tax issues ⓘ Ted misuses funds intended for tax payment ⓘ |
| usedAs | money laundering front ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter |
Skyler White for financial manipulation
ⓘ
Ted Beneke for tax fraud ⓘ |
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: Beneke Fabricators Description of subject: Beneke Fabricators is a fictional manufacturing company in the TV series "Breaking Bad," known primarily as the workplace of Skyler White and a front for financial misconduct.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.