Duke Power Company
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Duke Power Company is a U.S. electric utility company historically known for its involvement in the landmark employment discrimination case Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duke Energy | 15 |
| Duke Power Company canonical | 6 |
| Duke Energy (H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station vicinity) | 1 |
| Duke Energy Corporation | 1 |
| Duke Power | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1440380 — 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: Duke Power Company Context triple: [Griggs v. Duke Power Co., defendant, Duke Power Company]
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A.
Southern Company
Southern Company is one of the largest U.S. energy providers, primarily supplying electricity and natural gas across the southeastern United States through its regulated utilities and related businesses.
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B.
Mississippi Power
Mississippi Power is a regional electric utility company serving customers in parts of Mississippi as part of the Southern Company family of energy providers.
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C.
Southern Power
Southern Power is a U.S.-based wholesale energy company that develops, owns, and operates a portfolio of power generation assets, primarily focused on clean and renewable energy.
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D.
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
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E.
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was a major Southern industrial firm that played a key role in the development of the U.S. steel and mining industries, particularly in Alabama.
- 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: Duke Power Company Target entity description: Duke Power Company is a U.S. electric utility company historically known for its involvement in the landmark employment discrimination case Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
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A.
Southern Company
Southern Company is one of the largest U.S. energy providers, primarily supplying electricity and natural gas across the southeastern United States through its regulated utilities and related businesses.
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B.
Mississippi Power
Mississippi Power is a regional electric utility company serving customers in parts of Mississippi as part of the Southern Company family of energy providers.
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C.
Southern Power
Southern Power is a U.S.-based wholesale energy company that develops, owns, and operates a portfolio of power generation assets, primarily focused on clean and renewable energy.
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D.
Thomson-Houston Electric Company
Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a major late-19th-century American electrical manufacturing firm that became a key predecessor to General Electric.
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E.
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company was a major Southern industrial firm that played a key role in the development of the U.S. steel and mining industries, particularly in Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Supreme Court case
ⓘ
corporation ⓘ electric utility company ⓘ |
| areaOfLaw |
civil rights law
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employment discrimination law ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalConcept |
educational requirements for employment
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employment testing requirements ⓘ |
| associatedWithLegalOutcome | prohibition of employment practices with unjustified disparate impact ⓘ |
| citation | 401 U.S. 424 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| decisionYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | North Carolina ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf | Duke Energy’s regulated utility operations in the Carolinas ⓘ |
| industry | electric power industry ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Griggs v. Duke Power Co. ⓘ |
| involves |
Duke Power Company
self-linksurface differs
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalDoctrineEstablished | disparate impact ⓘ |
| legalRoleInCase | defendant in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. ⓘ |
| notableFor | being defendant in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
North Carolina
ⓘ
South Carolina ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Duke Power Company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Duke Energy
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| predecessorOf |
Duke Power Company
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Duke Energy
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| providesService | electricity supply ⓘ |
| regulates | electric power generation ⓘ |
| sector | energy sector ⓘ |
| serviceType | public utility service ⓘ |
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: Duke Power Company Description of subject: Duke Power Company is a U.S. electric utility company historically known for its involvement in the landmark employment discrimination case Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
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Duke Power
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy Corporation
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Duke Energy (H. B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station vicinity)
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy
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Duke Energy