John Deere
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agricultural machinery manufacturer
company
construction equipment manufacturer
forestry equipment manufacturer
John Deere is a leading American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, best known for its green and yellow farm equipment.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2710601 — 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: John Deere Context triple: [Waterloo, Iowa, hasMajorEmployer, John Deere]
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New Holland
New Holland is the fictional, retro-styled American suburb that serves as the primary setting for Tim Burton’s animated film "Frankenweenie."
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New Holland
New Holland was the name given by the Dutch to their 17th-century colonial possessions in northeastern Brazil, known historically as Dutch Brazil.
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Deering
Deering is a small Inupiat community and city located on the Seward Peninsula in northwestern Alaska.
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D.
Toro
Toro is the bull mascot representing California State University, Dominguez Hills at its athletic events and campus activities.
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Toro
Toro is the official bull-themed mascot of the NFL's Houston Texans, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
- 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: John Deere Target entity description: John Deere is a leading American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, best known for its green and yellow farm equipment.
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A.
New Holland
New Holland is the fictional, retro-styled American suburb that serves as the primary setting for Tim Burton’s animated film "Frankenweenie."
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B.
New Holland
New Holland was the name given by the Dutch to their 17th-century colonial possessions in northeastern Brazil, known historically as Dutch Brazil.
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C.
Deering
Deering is a small Inupiat community and city located on the Seward Peninsula in northwestern Alaska.
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D.
Toro
Toro is the bull mascot representing California State University, Dominguez Hills at its athletic events and campus activities.
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E.
Toro
Toro is the official bull-themed mascot of the NFL's Houston Texans, known for entertaining fans at games and team events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural machinery manufacturer
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company ⓘ construction equipment manufacturer ⓘ forestry equipment manufacturer ⓘ |
| brandColor |
green
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yellow ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| foundedBy | John Deere (blacksmith) ⓘ |
| foundedIn | Grand Detour, Illinois ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
John Deere
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
John Deere Agriculture & Turf
John Deere self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
John Deere Construction & Forestry
John Deere self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
John Deere Financial
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| hasFeature | distinctive green and yellow equipment livery ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Moline, Illinois ⓘ |
| inception | 1837 ⓘ |
| industry |
agricultural machinery
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construction equipment ⓘ diesel engines ⓘ forestry equipment ⓘ lawn and garden equipment ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| logo | leaping deer logo ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Deere (blacksmith) ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
agricultural tractors
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balers ⓘ combine harvesters ⓘ excavators ⓘ forestry harvesters ⓘ gator utility vehicles ⓘ lawn tractors ⓘ planters ⓘ skid steer loaders ⓘ sprayers ⓘ wheel loaders ⓘ zero-turn mowers ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
John Deere
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Deere & Company
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| productType |
construction machinery
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diesel engines ⓘ drivetrains ⓘ farm machinery ⓘ forestry machinery ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
agriculture
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construction ⓘ forestry ⓘ lawn care ⓘ |
| slogan | Nothing Runs Like a Deere ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NYSE:DE ⓘ |
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: John Deere Description of subject: John Deere is a leading American manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery, best known for its green and yellow farm equipment.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Deere (world headquarters in Moline)
this entity surface form:
John Deere European headquarters
this entity surface form:
John Deere global headquarters
this entity surface form:
Deere & Company
this entity surface form:
Deere & Company
this entity surface form:
Deere & Company
this entity surface form:
Deere & Company
this entity surface form:
John Deere Agriculture & Turf
this entity surface form:
John Deere Construction & Forestry
this entity surface form:
John Deere Financial