Listers engineering works
E346664
Listers engineering works was a prominent industrial manufacturing company based in Dursley, Gloucestershire, best known for producing diesel engines and agricultural machinery.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Listers engineering works canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3318761 — 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: Listers engineering works Context triple: [Dursley, hasIndustryHistory, Listers engineering works]
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A.
Clinton Engineer Works
Clinton Engineer Works was a massive World War II-era industrial complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built as part of the Manhattan Project to produce fissile material for the first atomic bombs.
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B.
Engineering Index
Engineering Index was an early comprehensive bibliographic database that indexed worldwide engineering and technical literature, later evolving into what is now known as Ei Compendex.
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C.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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D.
Engineer Command
Engineer Command is a specialized branch-level unit of the Spanish Army responsible for military engineering, construction, fortifications, and related technical support to land forces.
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E.
Main Engineering Directorate
The Main Engineering Directorate was a key technical and engineering body within the Soviet Ministry of Defense responsible for overseeing military construction, infrastructure, and related engineering support.
- 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: Listers engineering works Target entity description: Listers engineering works was a prominent industrial manufacturing company based in Dursley, Gloucestershire, best known for producing diesel engines and agricultural machinery.
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A.
Clinton Engineer Works
Clinton Engineer Works was a massive World War II-era industrial complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built as part of the Manhattan Project to produce fissile material for the first atomic bombs.
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B.
Engineering Index
Engineering Index was an early comprehensive bibliographic database that indexed worldwide engineering and technical literature, later evolving into what is now known as Ei Compendex.
-
C.
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was a New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs during the Great Depression by funding public works and arts projects across the United States.
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D.
Engineer Command
Engineer Command is a specialized branch-level unit of the Spanish Army responsible for military engineering, construction, fortifications, and related technical support to land forces.
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E.
Main Engineering Directorate
The Main Engineering Directorate was a key technical and engineering body within the Soviet Ministry of Defense responsible for overseeing military construction, infrastructure, and related engineering support.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
agricultural machinery manufacturer
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engine manufacturer ⓘ industrial manufacturing company ⓘ |
| basedInCounty | Gloucestershire ⓘ |
| basedInTown | Dursley ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
part of British engineering industry
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supplier of power units for agricultural applications ⓘ |
| industry |
agricultural equipment manufacturing
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diesel engine manufacturing ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agricultural machinery
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diesel engines ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dursley
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England ⓘ Gloucestershire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| product |
agricultural machinery
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diesel engines ⓘ industrial engines ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United Kingdom
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international markets ⓘ |
| significance | prominent local employer in Dursley ⓘ |
| usedIn |
agricultural equipment
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industrial machinery ⓘ power generation applications ⓘ |
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: Listers engineering works Description of subject: Listers engineering works was a prominent industrial manufacturing company based in Dursley, Gloucestershire, best known for producing diesel engines and agricultural machinery.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.