Fortive

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diversified industrial company industrial technology company public company

Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Fortive Corporation	5
Fortive canonical	3
Fortive Business System	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T363248 — 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: Fortive
Context triple: [Tektronix, parentCompany, Fortive]

A. 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.
B. Honeywell
Honeywell is a multinational conglomerate best known for its aerospace systems, building technologies, performance materials, and industrial automation products.
C. DuPont
DuPont is a major American chemical company historically known for pioneering materials science innovations and playing a key role in U.S. industrial and wartime production.
D. Northesk
Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
E. 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.
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: Fortive
Target entity description: Fortive is an American diversified industrial technology company that owns and operates a portfolio of measurement, automation, and industrial solutions businesses.

A. 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.
B. Honeywell
Honeywell is a multinational conglomerate best known for its aerospace systems, building technologies, performance materials, and industrial automation products.
C. DuPont
DuPont is a major American chemical company historically known for pioneering materials science innovations and playing a key role in U.S. industrial and wartime production.
D. Northesk
Northesk is the territorial designation associated with the Scottish peerage title Earl of Northesk, historically linked to the Carnegie family.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	diversified industrial company ⓘ industrial technology company ⓘ public company ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
currency	US dollar ⓘ surface form: United States dollar
focusesOn	automation ⓘ industrial solutions ⓘ measurement ⓘ
foundedBy	Danaher Corporation ⓘ
hasAreaOfActivity	Asia-Pacific ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ
hasBusinessSegment	Advanced Healthcare Solutions ⓘ Intelligent Operating Solutions ⓘ Precision Technologies ⓘ
hasKeyMarket	commercial customers ⓘ healthcare customers ⓘ industrial customers ⓘ
hasMotto	Essential technology for the people who accelerate progress ⓘ
hasProductType	healthcare technology solutions ⓘ industrial automation solutions ⓘ safety and compliance solutions ⓘ test and measurement equipment ⓘ
hasStrategy	portfolio of operating companies ⓘ
hasWebsite	https://www.fortive.com ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Everett, Washington, United States ⓘ surface form: Everett, Washington
industry	automation ⓘ industrial solutions ⓘ industrial technology ⓘ measurement and instrumentation ⓘ
isListedIn	S&P 500 Index ⓘ surface form: S&P 500 index
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
legalForm	corporation ⓘ
owns	ASP (Advanced Sterilization Products) ⓘ Fluke Corporation ⓘ Gordian ⓘ Industrial Scientific ⓘ Invetech ⓘ Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company ⓘ Qualitrol ⓘ Sensing Technologies businesses ⓘ Setra Systems ⓘ Tektronix ⓘ
separatedFrom	Danaher Corporation ⓘ
stockExchange	New York Stock Exchange ⓘ
tickerSymbol	FTV ⓘ
usesBusinessSystem	Fortive self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Fortive Business System

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tektronix → parentCompany → Fortive ⓘ

Tektronix → acquiredBy → Fortive ⓘ

Fortive → usesBusinessSystem → Fortive self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Fortive Business System

FTV → represents → Fortive ⓘ