building Material Service Corporation
E131722
Building Material Service Corporation was a major Chicago-based construction materials company founded and built into a large industrial enterprise by businessman Henry Crown.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Building Material Service Corporation | 1 |
| building Material Service Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1159787 — 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: building Material Service Corporation Context triple: [Henry Crown, knownFor, building Material Service Corporation]
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A.
Consolidated Builders, Inc.
Consolidated Builders, Inc. was a major construction consortium best known for serving as the primary contractor responsible for building the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures in the world.
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B.
Skanska USA Building Inc.
Skanska USA Building Inc. is the U.S. construction and development arm of the global Skanska group, known for managing large, complex building projects across the country.
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C.
Jarden Corporation
Jarden Corporation was a U.S.-based consumer products company known for its wide portfolio of household and outdoor brands before being acquired by Newell Brands.
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D.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
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E.
Fortive
Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.
- 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: building Material Service Corporation Target entity description: Building Material Service Corporation was a major Chicago-based construction materials company founded and built into a large industrial enterprise by businessman Henry Crown.
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A.
Consolidated Builders, Inc.
Consolidated Builders, Inc. was a major construction consortium best known for serving as the primary contractor responsible for building the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures in the world.
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B.
Skanska USA Building Inc.
Skanska USA Building Inc. is the U.S. construction and development arm of the global Skanska group, known for managing large, complex building projects across the country.
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C.
Jarden Corporation
Jarden Corporation was a U.S.-based consumer products company known for its wide portfolio of household and outdoor brands before being acquired by Newell Brands.
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D.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
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E.
Fortive
Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessman
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construction materials company ⓘ corporation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs | major Chicago-based construction materials company ⓘ |
| developedInto | large industrial enterprise ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
building Material Service Corporation
self-link
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surface form:
Building Material Service Corporation
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| foundedBy | Henry Crown ⓘ |
| hasBusinessType | private company ⓘ |
| hasNotableFounderRole | built into a large industrial enterprise by Henry Crown ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryProduct |
building materials
ⓘ
construction materials ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
|
| industry |
building materials industry
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construction materials industry ⓘ construction materials industry ⓘ |
| keyPerson | Henry Crown ⓘ |
| knownFor |
building Building Material Service Corporation into a large industrial enterprise
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founding Building Material Service Corporation ⓘ |
| location |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
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| namedAfter | building materials ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Chicago metropolitan area
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Illinois ⓘ |
| significantPlace |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
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| workLocation |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
|
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: building Material Service Corporation Description of subject: Building Material Service Corporation was a major Chicago-based construction materials company founded and built into a large industrial enterprise by businessman Henry Crown.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry Crown
building Material Service Corporation
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foundedAs
→
building Material Service Corporation
self-link
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subject surface form:
Building Material Service Corporation
this entity surface form:
Building Material Service Corporation