Homestead Steel Works

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Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf industrial facility
steel mill
associatedWith Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Clay Frick
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
category Andrew Carnegie
Industrial history of the United States
Labor history of the United States
Steel mills in Pennsylvania
country United States of America
surface form: United States
employs steelworkers
endDate 1980s
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark district (site-related areas)
historicalEra 19th century
early 20th century
impact development of U.S. steel industry
growth of Pittsburgh as an industrial center
shaping U.S. labor relations
industry steelmaking
knownFor Homestead Strike
labor conflict
role in U.S. labor history
laborDispute Homestead Strike
locatedIn Allegheny County
surface form: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Homestead, Pennsylvania
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
locatedNear Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
locatedOn Monongahela River
ownedBy Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
partOf Andrew Carnegie
surface form: Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire

Carnegie Steel Company
peakEmployment tens of thousands of workers
product armor plate
steel
steel rails
structural steel
railConnection Pennsylvania Railroad Company
surface form: Pennsylvania Railroad

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad
region Monongahela River Valley
surface form: Monongahela Valley
significantEvent Homestead Strike
surface form: Homestead Strike of 1892
startDate 1880s
status defunct
strikeDate 1892
successorUse The Waterfront shopping complex
technologyUsed Bessemer process
open-hearth furnaces

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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: Homestead Steel Works
Description of subject: Homestead Steel Works was a major 19th- and early 20th-century steel mill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, best known as a centerpiece of Andrew Carnegie’s steel empire and the site of the 1892 Homestead Strike, a pivotal event in U.S. labor history.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Homestead, Pennsylvania knownFor Homestead Steel Works
West Homestead, Pennsylvania near Homestead Steel Works
this entity surface form: Homestead Steel Works historic site