Alticor through family ownership
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Alticor through family ownership is the privately held parent company of Amway and related enterprises, overseen and directed by the DeVos family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alticor through family ownership canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3921961 — 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: Alticor through family ownership Context triple: [DeVos family, controls, Alticor through family ownership]
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A.
Alltrista Corporation
Alltrista Corporation was a U.S.-based manufacturer best known for its consumer products and packaging businesses before evolving into what became Jarden Corporation.
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B.
First Allied Corporation
First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
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C.
Heritage Hill Corporation
Heritage Hill Corporation is a nonprofit organization responsible for managing and preserving the historic buildings, exhibits, and educational programs at Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Wisconsin.
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D.
Pella Corporation
Pella Corporation is a major American manufacturer of windows and doors known for its innovative, energy-efficient building products.
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E.
Decurion Corporation
Decurion Corporation is a privately held entertainment and real estate company best known as the parent of Pacific Theatres and the ArcLight Cinemas chain.
- 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: Alticor through family ownership Target entity description: Alticor through family ownership is the privately held parent company of Amway and related enterprises, overseen and directed by the DeVos family.
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A.
Alltrista Corporation
Alltrista Corporation was a U.S.-based manufacturer best known for its consumer products and packaging businesses before evolving into what became Jarden Corporation.
-
B.
First Allied Corporation
First Allied Corporation is a private holding company and investment firm associated with the Glazer family, known for its interests in real estate and various business ventures.
-
C.
Heritage Hill Corporation
Heritage Hill Corporation is a nonprofit organization responsible for managing and preserving the historic buildings, exhibits, and educational programs at Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Wisconsin.
-
D.
Pella Corporation
Pella Corporation is a major American manufacturer of windows and doors known for its innovative, energy-efficient building products.
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E.
Decurion Corporation
Decurion Corporation is a privately held entertainment and real estate company best known as the parent of Pacific Theatres and the ArcLight Cinemas chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
holding company
ⓘ
parent company ⓘ privately held company ⓘ |
| businessScope | global ⓘ |
| controlledBy | DeVos family ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | DeVos family interests ⓘ |
| governanceStructure | family-controlled ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | multi-level marketing via Amway ⓘ |
| hasControllingInterestHolder | DeVos family ⓘ |
| hasCorporateStructure | holding company over Amway and related enterprises ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | members of the DeVos family ⓘ |
| hasMajorShareholder | DeVos family ⓘ |
| hasOwnershipStructure | family ownership ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryRevenueSource | Amway sales ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfOwnership | closely held ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Ada, Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
direct selling
ⓘ
multi-level marketing ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | being parent company of Amway ⓘ |
| isParentOf |
Amway
ⓘ
surface form:
Amway global operations
|
| legalForm | privately held corporation ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
consumer products
ⓘ
health and wellness products ⓘ home care products ⓘ |
| ownedBy | DeVos family ⓘ |
| ownsBrand | Amway ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf |
Amway
ⓘ
Amway-related enterprises ⓘ |
| sharesListedOn | none (privately held) ⓘ |
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: Alticor through family ownership Description of subject: Alticor through family ownership is the privately held parent company of Amway and related enterprises, overseen and directed by the DeVos family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.