Edgar Thomson Steel Works
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Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a historic integrated steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, long associated with Andrew Carnegie and regarded as one of the oldest continuously operating steel plants in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edgar Thomson Steel Works canonical | 2 |
| Bessemer steel works at Braddock, Pennsylvania | 1 |
| Edgar Thomson Plant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T850340 — 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.
Target entity: Edgar Thomson Steel Works Context triple: [Braddock, Pennsylvania, knownFor, Edgar Thomson Steel Works]
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Homestead Steel Works
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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Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works is a historic 19th-century ironworks complex in Richmond, Virginia, best known as a major supplier of iron and munitions to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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U.S. Steel Yard
U.S. Steel Yard is a minor league baseball stadium in Gary, Indiana, primarily known as the home field of the Gary SouthShore RailCats.
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U.S. Steel Gary Works complex
The U.S. Steel Gary Works complex is a major integrated steel production facility in Gary, Indiana, historically one of the largest steel mills in the world and a cornerstone of American heavy industry.
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Lorain Steel Company
Lorain Steel Company was an American steel manufacturer known for operating major steelworks in Lorain, Ohio, that contributed to the region’s industrial growth.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Edgar Thomson Steel Works Target entity description: Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a historic integrated steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, long associated with Andrew Carnegie and regarded as one of the oldest continuously operating steel plants in the United States.
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A.
Homestead Steel Works
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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Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works is a historic 19th-century ironworks complex in Richmond, Virginia, best known as a major supplier of iron and munitions to the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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C.
U.S. Steel Yard
U.S. Steel Yard is a minor league baseball stadium in Gary, Indiana, primarily known as the home field of the Gary SouthShore RailCats.
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U.S. Steel Gary Works complex
The U.S. Steel Gary Works complex is a major integrated steel production facility in Gary, Indiana, historically one of the largest steel mills in the world and a cornerstone of American heavy industry.
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Lorain Steel Company
Lorain Steel Company was an American steel manufacturer known for operating major steelworks in Lorain, Ohio, that contributed to the region’s industrial growth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic site
ⓘ
industrial facility ⓘ steel mill ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Andrew Carnegie ⓘ |
| category |
19th-century industrial architecture in the United States
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Industrial buildings and structures in Pennsylvania ⓘ Steel mills in the United States ⓘ |
| constructionCompleted | 1875 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employer | steelworkers in the Pittsburgh region ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | historic industrial site in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| hasPart |
basic oxygen furnace
ⓘ
blast furnace ⓘ coke works ⓘ rail yard ⓘ |
| hasTechnology |
Bessemer process
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surface form:
Bessemer process (historically)
integrated steelmaking process ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | one of the oldest continuously operating steel plants in the United States ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
early adopter of the Bessemer process in the United States
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key facility in the rise of the Carnegie steel empire ⓘ |
| inception | 1872 ⓘ |
| industry | steelmaking ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Allegheny County
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surface form:
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Braddock, Pennsylvania ⓘ Monongahela River Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Monongahela River ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Edgar Thomson ⓘ |
| near |
North Braddock, Pennsylvania
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Rankin, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Steel Company
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continuous operation since the 19th century ⓘ |
| operator |
United States Steel Corporation
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surface form:
U.S. Steel
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| ownedBy |
United States Steel Corporation
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surface form:
U.S. Steel
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| partOf |
American steel industry
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Mon Valley Works ⓘ Pittsburgh region ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
|
| product |
steel
ⓘ
steel rails ⓘ steel slabs ⓘ |
| region | Western Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| startOfOperation | 1875 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Edgar Thomson Steel Works Description of subject: Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a historic integrated steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, long associated with Andrew Carnegie and regarded as one of the oldest continuously operating steel plants in the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.