J. D. Irving, Limited

E287091

Canadian company conglomerate privately held company

J. D. Irving, Limited is a large, privately owned Canadian conglomerate based in New Brunswick, active in sectors such as forestry, transportation, shipbuilding, and consumer products.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Irving Group of Companies	9
J.D. Irving, Limited	7
J. D. Irving, Limited canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651249 — 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: J. D. Irving, Limited
Context triple: [Irving family, businessHolding, J. D. Irving, Limited]

A. Henry Crown and Company
Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
B. Transcona Enterprises
Transcona Enterprises was a film production company co-founded by Judy Garland and her then-husband Sid Luft, best known for producing the 1954 version of "A Star Is Born."
C. Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
D. Tudor Ice Company
Tudor Ice Company was the pioneering 19th-century enterprise founded by Frederick Tudor that commercialized the large-scale harvesting and global export of natural ice.
E. Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
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: J. D. Irving, Limited
Target entity description: J. D. Irving, Limited is a large, privately owned Canadian conglomerate based in New Brunswick, active in sectors such as forestry, transportation, shipbuilding, and consumer products.

A. Henry Crown and Company
Henry Crown and Company is a private, family-owned investment firm serving as the primary investment vehicle for the wealthy and influential Crown family of Chicago.
B. Transcona Enterprises
Transcona Enterprises was a film production company co-founded by Judy Garland and her then-husband Sid Luft, best known for producing the 1954 version of "A Star Is Born."
C. Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company is a historic Canadian retail and fur-trading enterprise founded in 1670 that became one of the oldest and most influential commercial institutions in North America.
D. Tudor Ice Company
Tudor Ice Company was the pioneering 19th-century enterprise founded by Frederick Tudor that commercialized the large-scale harvesting and global export of natural ice.
E. Canada Lands Company
Canada Lands Company is a federal Crown corporation in Canada responsible for managing, redeveloping, and optimizing the value of strategic real estate and attractions owned by the Government of Canada.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Canadian company ⓘ conglomerate ⓘ privately held company ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	Canada ⓘ
foundedBy	K. C. Irving ⓘ
foundedIn	Bouctouche, New Brunswick ⓘ
hasParentOrganization	J. D. Irving, Limited self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Irving Group of Companies
headquartersLocation	Saint John, New Brunswick ⓘ
inception	1882 ⓘ
industry	agriculture ⓘ consumer products ⓘ food processing ⓘ forestry ⓘ media ⓘ pulp and paper ⓘ retail ⓘ shipbuilding ⓘ transportation ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
legalForm	limited company ⓘ
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	New Brunswick ⓘ
notableProduct	building materials ⓘ frozen potato products ⓘ lumber ⓘ newsprint ⓘ tissue products ⓘ
operatesInSector	agri-food ⓘ consumer goods ⓘ forestry and forest products ⓘ media and publishing ⓘ retail and wholesale ⓘ shipbuilding and marine ⓘ transportation and logistics ⓘ
owner	Irving family ⓘ
regionServed	Atlantic Canada ⓘ New England ⓘ
sharesForm	privately held ⓘ
subsidiary	Brunswick News ⓘ Cavendish Farms ⓘ Irving Pulp & Paper ⓘ surface form: Irving Paper Irving Pulp & Paper ⓘ Irving Shipbuilding ⓘ Irving Tissue ⓘ Kent Building Supplies ⓘ Midland Transport ⓘ New Brunswick Railway Company ⓘ
website	https://www.jdirving.com/ ⓘ

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