Glencore
E90139
Glencore is a multinational commodity trading and mining company that operates extensive resource extraction and processing assets worldwide.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glencore canonical | 16 |
| Glencore plc | 6 |
| Glencore International AG | 2 |
| Glencore Canada Corporation | 1 |
| Glencore coal division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T764396 — 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: Glencore Context triple: [Mount Isa, majorEmployer, Glencore]
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A.
Fossil Group
Fossil Group is an American fashion company best known for designing and manufacturing watches and accessories, including a wide range of smartwatches.
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B.
Kinross
Kinross is a small historic town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated near Loch Leven and known as a gateway between central Scotland and the Highlands.
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C.
Martin Marietta
Martin Marietta was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for building rockets, spacecraft components, and other systems for U.S. military and civilian space programs.
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D.
Peel Group
Peel Group is a major British infrastructure, transport, and real estate investment company known for owning and developing assets such as ports, airports, and large-scale property projects across the UK.
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E.
Alcoa
Alcoa is a small industrial city in Blount County, Tennessee, historically centered around aluminum production and part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
- 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: Glencore Target entity description: Glencore is a multinational commodity trading and mining company that operates extensive resource extraction and processing assets worldwide.
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A.
Fossil Group
Fossil Group is an American fashion company best known for designing and manufacturing watches and accessories, including a wide range of smartwatches.
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B.
Kinross
Kinross is a small historic town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, situated near Loch Leven and known as a gateway between central Scotland and the Highlands.
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C.
Martin Marietta
Martin Marietta was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for building rockets, spacecraft components, and other systems for U.S. military and civilian space programs.
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D.
Peel Group
Peel Group is a major British infrastructure, transport, and real estate investment company known for owning and developing assets such as ports, airports, and large-scale property projects across the UK.
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E.
Alcoa
Alcoa is a small industrial city in Blount County, Tennessee, historically centered around aluminum production and part of the Knoxville metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational commodity trading and mining company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| country | Switzerland ⓘ |
| currencyOfListing |
GBP
ⓘ
linked to:
Pound sterling
|
| formerName | Marc Rich + Co AG ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Marc Rich ⓘ |
| hasBusinessOperation |
commodity trading
ⓘ
energy products marketing ⓘ metals refining ⓘ mineral processing ⓘ resource extraction ⓘ |
| hasControversy |
corruption investigations
ⓘ
environmental issues ⓘ human rights concerns ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Glencore Canada Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Glencore
Glencore International AG ⓘ
linked to:
Glencore
Katanga Mining Limited ⓘ Mopani Copper Mines ⓘ Prodeco Group ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Baar, Switzerland ⓘ |
| inception | 1974 ⓘ |
| industry |
commodities trading
ⓘ
mining ⓘ natural resources ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 100000 ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| owns |
logistics infrastructure
ⓘ
mines ⓘ refineries ⓘ smelters ⓘ |
| product |
agricultural commodities
ⓘ
coal ⓘ cobalt ⓘ copper ⓘ nickel ⓘ oil ⓘ zinc ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction |
Swiss financial authorities
ⓘ
UK financial authorities ⓘ
linked to:
Financial Conduct Authority
US authorities ⓘ
linked to:
United States federal officials
|
| stockExchange |
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
ⓘ
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ⓘ London Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | GLEN ⓘ |
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: Glencore Description of subject: Glencore is a multinational commodity trading and mining company that operates extensive resource extraction and processing assets worldwide.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
linked to: Glencore
subject linked to:
BHP Billiton (historically in diamonds)