Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known globally by its brand name Panasonic, is a major Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer and technology company.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2131145 — 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: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Context triple: [Isamu Akasaki, employer, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.]
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A.
Nippon Electric Company
Nippon Electric Company, now known as NEC Corporation, is a major Japanese multinational provider of information technology and electronics solutions.
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B.
Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer known for its consumer electronics, display technologies, and home appliances.
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C.
Hitachi
Hitachi is a Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its wide range of businesses spanning information technology, infrastructure, industrial systems, and consumer electronics.
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D.
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
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E.
Toshiba
Toshiba is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its electronics, semiconductors, and information technology products and services.
- 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: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Target entity description: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known globally by its brand name Panasonic, is a major Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer and technology company.
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A.
Nippon Electric Company
Nippon Electric Company, now known as NEC Corporation, is a major Japanese multinational provider of information technology and electronics solutions.
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B.
Sharp Corporation
Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer known for its consumer electronics, display technologies, and home appliances.
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C.
Hitachi
Hitachi is a Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its wide range of businesses spanning information technology, infrastructure, industrial systems, and consumer electronics.
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D.
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo
Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was the original name of the Japanese electronics company that later became globally known as Sony.
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E.
Toshiba
Toshiba is a major Japanese multinational conglomerate known for its electronics, semiconductors, and information technology products and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conglomerate
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multinational electronics company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
MEI
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ⓘ
surface form:
Matsushita Electric
Panasonic ⓘ
surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
|
| brand |
National
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Panasonic ⓘ Quasar ⓘ Technics ⓘ |
| brandName | Panasonic ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| dateFounded | 1918 ⓘ |
| dateRebrandedAs | 2008 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works
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| foundedBy | Konosuke Matsushita ⓘ |
| founder | Konosuke Matsushita ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | A Better Life, A Better World ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Kadoma, Osaka, Japan ⓘ |
| inception | 1918 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer electronics
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electrical equipment ⓘ electronics ⓘ home appliances ⓘ industrial equipment ⓘ |
| legalForm | Kabushiki gaisha ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Japan Standard Time ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Japanese ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Panasonic Group
|
| placeFounded |
Osaka
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surface form:
Osaka, Japan
|
| product |
audio equipment
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automotive electronics ⓘ batteries ⓘ home appliances ⓘ industrial systems ⓘ personal care devices ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ televisions ⓘ video equipment ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs |
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
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| subsidiary |
Panasonic Automotive Systems
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Panasonic Avionics Corporation ⓘ Panasonic Electric Works ⓘ Sanyo ⓘ
surface form:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
|
| tickerSymbol | 6752 ⓘ |
| tradedAs |
Nagoya Stock Exchange
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New York Stock Exchange ⓘ Tokyo Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| website | https://www.panasonic.com ⓘ |
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: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Description of subject: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., better known globally by its brand name Panasonic, is a major Japanese multinational electronics manufacturer and technology company.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric SC
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita group
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
→
formerName
→
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
→
parentOrganization
→
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Panasonic Group
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
→
rebrandedAs
→
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Housewares Manufacturing Works
this entity surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
subject surface form:
Panasonic Corporation
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
this entity surface form:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.