RJR Nabisco
E103590
RJR Nabisco was a major American conglomerate best known for its food and tobacco businesses and for being the focus of a landmark leveraged buyout battle in the late 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| RJR Nabisco canonical | 2 |
| RJR Nabisco’s Del Monte division | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T881571 — 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: RJR Nabisco Context triple: [Carl Icahn, knownForInvestmentIn, RJR Nabisco]
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A.
Brown & Williamson
Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
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B.
Browne & Williamson
Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
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C.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
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D.
Lorillard Tobacco Company
Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
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E.
Reynolds American Inc.
Reynolds American Inc. is a major U.S. tobacco holding company best known for owning prominent cigarette brands such as Camel and Newport.
- 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: RJR Nabisco Target entity description: RJR Nabisco was a major American conglomerate best known for its food and tobacco businesses and for being the focus of a landmark leveraged buyout battle in the late 1980s.
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A.
Brown & Williamson
Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
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B.
Browne & Williamson
Browne & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, best known as a subsidiary of British American Tobacco and for its involvement in high-profile tobacco litigation and public health controversies.
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C.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
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D.
Lorillard Tobacco Company
Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
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E.
Reynolds American Inc.
Reynolds American Inc. is a major U.S. tobacco holding company best known for owning prominent cigarette brands such as Camel and Newport.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
conglomerate ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ⓘ |
| acquisitionType | leveraged buyout ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | approximately $25 billion ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| category |
defunct companies based in North Carolina
ⓘ
leveraged buyouts in the United States ⓘ |
| competitorBidder |
First Boston
ⓘ
Forstmann Little & Co. ⓘ Shearson Loeb Rhoades ⓘ
surface form:
Shearson Lehman Hutton
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| divestedBusiness |
food business
ⓘ
tobacco business ⓘ |
| era | 1980s corporate finance boom ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Nabisco
ⓘ
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ⓘ
surface form:
R.J. Reynolds
|
| headquartersLocation |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia
Winston-Salem, North Carolina ⓘ |
| industry |
food
ⓘ
tobacco ⓘ |
| keyExecutive |
F. Ross Johnson
ⓘ
Henry Kravis ⓘ |
| keyExecutiveRole |
CEO
ⓘ
lead bidder in LBO ⓘ |
| knownFor |
highly leveraged capital structure
ⓘ
iconic case in corporate governance debates ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| majorBrand |
Nabisco
ⓘ
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ⓘ |
| majorProduct |
cigarettes
ⓘ
cookies ⓘ crackers ⓘ |
| mergerDate | 1985 ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1988 leveraged buyout battle ⓘ |
| notableFor | leveraged buyout ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Pepperidge Farm
ⓘ
surface form:
Nabisco Brands
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ⓘ
surface form:
R.J. Reynolds Industries
|
| record | largest leveraged buyout at the time ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
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surface form:
Barbarians at the Gate (1993 film)
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco ⓘ |
| successor |
Kraft Foods
ⓘ
surface form:
Kraft Foods (for Nabisco brands)
Nabisco ⓘ
surface form:
Nabisco Holdings Corp.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ⓘ
surface form:
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc.
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| tickerSymbol | RN ⓘ |
| wentPrivateIn | 1989 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: RJR Nabisco Description of subject: RJR Nabisco was a major American conglomerate best known for its food and tobacco businesses and for being the focus of a landmark leveraged buyout battle in the late 1980s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
RJR Nabisco’s Del Monte division