Cintas Corporation
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Cintas Corporation is a major American business services company best known for providing corporate uniforms, facility services, and safety products to businesses across North America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cintas Corporation canonical | 2 |
| Cintas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3297677 — 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: Cintas Corporation Context triple: [Cincinnati metropolitan area, hasMajorCompanyHeadquarters, Cintas Corporation]
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A.
Mitre Corporation
Mitre Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers, providing systems engineering and advanced technology support primarily to U.S. government agencies.
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B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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C.
Kellex Corporation
Kellex Corporation was an engineering firm best known for designing and overseeing construction of the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant used in the Manhattan Project to enrich uranium during World War II.
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D.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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E.
McLane Company
McLane Company is a major American supply chain services and wholesale distribution company serving retailers, restaurants, and convenience stores across the United States.
- 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: Cintas Corporation Target entity description: Cintas Corporation is a major American business services company best known for providing corporate uniforms, facility services, and safety products to businesses across North America.
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A.
Mitre Corporation
Mitre Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development centers, providing systems engineering and advanced technology support primarily to U.S. government agencies.
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B.
Goodrich Corporation
Goodrich Corporation was a major American aerospace and defense company known for manufacturing aircraft systems and components before its acquisition by United Technologies Corporation.
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C.
Kellex Corporation
Kellex Corporation was an engineering firm best known for designing and overseeing construction of the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant used in the Manhattan Project to enrich uranium during World War II.
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D.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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E.
McLane Company
McLane Company is a major American supply chain services and wholesale distribution company serving retailers, restaurants, and convenience stores across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business services company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ uniform supplier ⓘ |
| businessModel | business-to-business services ⓘ |
| continentServed | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Richard T. Farmer ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Cintas Corporation
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cintas
|
| hasSubsidiary | Shred-it (historical association / integration of document management operations) ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
business services
ⓘ
facility services ⓘ fire protection services ⓘ first aid and safety services ⓘ safety products ⓘ uniform rental ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
corporate uniform programs
ⓘ
facility services for businesses ⓘ safety and first aid products ⓘ |
| offersProgram |
managed facility services contracts
ⓘ
rental and cleaning of workwear ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | commercial services ⓘ |
| service |
cleaning supplies
ⓘ
compliance training ⓘ corporate uniforms ⓘ document management and shredding ⓘ facility services ⓘ fire protection services ⓘ first aid supplies ⓘ floor mats ⓘ restroom supplies ⓘ safety products ⓘ uniform cleaning services ⓘ uniform rental programs ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| stockExchange |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
|
| targetCustomer |
businesses
ⓘ
commercial facilities ⓘ healthcare industry ⓘ hospitality industry ⓘ industrial facilities ⓘ retail businesses ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | CTAS ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cintas.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: Cintas Corporation Description of subject: Cintas Corporation is a major American business services company best known for providing corporate uniforms, facility services, and safety products to businesses across North America.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cintas