Monsanto Company
E133083
Monsanto Company was a major American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation known for producing controversial products such as Agent Orange and genetically modified seeds.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monsanto Company canonical | 4 |
| Monsanto | 3 |
| Monsanto Chemical Company | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1171088 — 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: Monsanto Company Context triple: [Agent Orange, producedBy, Monsanto Company]
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A.
Corteva
Corteva is an American agricultural chemical and seed company formed as an independent entity after the breakup of DowDuPont.
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B.
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company is an agricultural seed company renowned for developing and commercializing hybrid corn varieties that revolutionized modern farming.
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C.
DowDuPont
DowDuPont was a large American chemical conglomerate formed by the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont, later split into three independent companies focused on agriculture, materials science, and specialty products.
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D.
Bayer
Bayer is a major German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company known for products such as aspirin and its work in healthcare and agriculture.
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E.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is a major American multinational chemical corporation known for producing a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and consumer chemical products.
- 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: Monsanto Company Target entity description: Monsanto Company was a major American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation known for producing controversial products such as Agent Orange and genetically modified seeds.
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A.
Corteva
Corteva is an American agricultural chemical and seed company formed as an independent entity after the breakup of DowDuPont.
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B.
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company
Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Company is an agricultural seed company renowned for developing and commercializing hybrid corn varieties that revolutionized modern farming.
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C.
DowDuPont
DowDuPont was a large American chemical conglomerate formed by the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont, later split into three independent companies focused on agriculture, materials science, and specialty products.
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D.
Bayer
Bayer is a major German multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company known for products such as aspirin and its work in healthcare and agriculture.
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E.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is a major American multinational chemical corporation known for producing a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and consumer chemical products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agrochemical company
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biotechnology company ⓘ corporation ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Bayer
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surface form:
Bayer AG
|
| acquisitionDate | 2018 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developed |
Bt corn
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Bt cotton ⓘ Roundup Ready crops ⓘ herbicide-resistant soybean varieties ⓘ |
| dissolutionStatus | brand retired after Bayer acquisition ⓘ |
| formerName |
Monsanto Company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Monsanto Chemical Company
|
| foundedBy | John Francis Queeny ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1901 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Creve Coeur, Missouri
ⓘ
St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ
surface form:
St. Louis, Missouri
|
| industry |
agricultural biotechnology
ⓘ
agrochemicals ⓘ seed industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
controversies over environmental impact
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controversies over health risks ⓘ development of genetically modified crops ⓘ legal disputes with farmers ⓘ patenting of seeds ⓘ production of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War era ⓘ production of glyphosate-based herbicides ⓘ production of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ⓘ |
| legalIssue |
lawsuits related to PCB contamination
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lawsuits related to glyphosate and cancer claims ⓘ patent infringement suits against farmers ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Bayer
ⓘ
surface form:
Bayer Crop Science division
|
| notableBrand |
Asgrow
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DEKALB ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Africa
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Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Bayer
ⓘ
surface form:
Bayer AG
|
| product |
Agent Orange
ⓘ
Bt crops ⓘ PCBs ⓘ Roundup ⓘ canola seeds ⓘ corn seeds ⓘ cotton seeds ⓘ genetically modified seeds ⓘ glyphosate ⓘ herbicide-tolerant crops ⓘ soybean seeds ⓘ vegetable seeds ⓘ |
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: Monsanto Company Description of subject: Monsanto Company was a major American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation known for producing controversial products such as Agent Orange and genetically modified seeds.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Monsanto
this entity surface form:
Monsanto
this entity surface form:
Monsanto Chemical Company
subject surface form:
Agent Orange
this entity surface form:
Monsanto Chemical Company