The Haloid Photographic Company
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The Haloid Photographic Company was the original name of the American firm that evolved into Xerox, a pioneering corporation in photocopying and document technology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haloid Company | 3 |
| The Haloid Photographic Company canonical | 2 |
| Haloid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3380723 — 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: The Haloid Photographic Company Context triple: [Xerox, formerName, The Haloid Photographic Company]
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A.
Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman Kodak Company is an American technology and photography company historically known for pioneering consumer and professional film, cameras, and imaging products.
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B.
Kodak Limited
Kodak Limited is the United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company, historically involved in photographic film, imaging, and related technologies.
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C.
Kodak
Kodak is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, known as a growing residential and commercial area near the Great Smoky Mountains and the city of Knoxville.
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D.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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E.
Kodak Alaris
Kodak Alaris is a company that focuses on imaging and photographic products and services, including film, photo printing, and document management solutions, formed from the former consumer imaging assets of Eastman Kodak.
- 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: The Haloid Photographic Company Target entity description: The Haloid Photographic Company was the original name of the American firm that evolved into Xerox, a pioneering corporation in photocopying and document technology.
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A.
Eastman Kodak Company
Eastman Kodak Company is an American technology and photography company historically known for pioneering consumer and professional film, cameras, and imaging products.
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B.
Kodak Limited
Kodak Limited is the United Kingdom-based subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Company, historically involved in photographic film, imaging, and related technologies.
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C.
Kodak
Kodak is an unincorporated community in Sevier County, Tennessee, known as a growing residential and commercial area near the Great Smoky Mountains and the city of Knoxville.
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D.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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E.
Kodak Alaris
Kodak Alaris is a company that focuses on imaging and photographic products and services, including film, photo printing, and document management solutions, formed from the former consumer imaging assets of Eastman Kodak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
photographic company ⓘ predecessor company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Haloid Photographic Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Haloid
The Haloid Photographic Company ⓘ
surface form:
Haloid Company
|
| areaServed |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
international markets ⓘ |
| businessModel |
manufacturing
ⓘ
technology licensing ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Chester Carlson ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developedInto |
Xerox
ⓘ
surface form:
Haloid Xerox
Xerox ⓘ
surface form:
Xerox Corporation
|
| fate | became Xerox Corporation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Chester Carlson
ⓘ
Joseph C. Wilson ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Rochester, New York ⓘ |
| industry |
photographic equipment
ⓘ
photographic paper ⓘ photography ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| notableAchievement |
early adoption of xerographic copying technology
ⓘ
laying foundation for modern photocopying industry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the original name of Xerox
ⓘ
commercializing xerography ⓘ |
| product |
photographic paper
ⓘ
photographic plates ⓘ xerographic copiers ⓘ |
| successor |
Xerox
ⓘ
surface form:
Xerox Corporation
|
| usedTechnology | xerography ⓘ |
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: The Haloid Photographic Company Description of subject: The Haloid Photographic Company was the original name of the American firm that evolved into Xerox, a pioneering corporation in photocopying and document technology.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Haloid Company
this entity surface form:
Haloid Company
this entity surface form:
Haloid Company
this entity surface form:
Haloid