Waste Management, Inc.
E512096
Waste Management, Inc. is a leading North American provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services for residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waste Management, Inc. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5340288 — 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: Waste Management, Inc. Context triple: [Arthur Andersen, notableClient, Waste Management, Inc.]
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A.
Veolia Environnement
Veolia Environnement is a French multinational company specializing in water, waste, and energy management services worldwide.
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B.
Solid Waste Management Administration
The Solid Waste Management Administration is a division of the District of Columbia’s Department of Public Works responsible for overseeing trash collection, recycling, and related waste management services in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Environmental Facilities Corporation
The Environmental Facilities Corporation is a New York State public authority that provides financial and technical assistance for water, sewer, and other environmental infrastructure projects.
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D.
Bureau of Solid Waste Management
The Bureau of Solid Waste Management was a U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and overseeing national policies and programs for managing solid waste and promoting environmental sanitation prior to its functions being absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency.
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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: Waste Management, Inc. Target entity description: Waste Management, Inc. is a leading North American provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services for residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers.
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A.
Veolia Environnement
Veolia Environnement is a French multinational company specializing in water, waste, and energy management services worldwide.
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B.
Solid Waste Management Administration
The Solid Waste Management Administration is a division of the District of Columbia’s Department of Public Works responsible for overseeing trash collection, recycling, and related waste management services in Washington, D.C.
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C.
Environmental Facilities Corporation
The Environmental Facilities Corporation is a New York State public authority that provides financial and technical assistance for water, sewer, and other environmental infrastructure projects.
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D.
Bureau of Solid Waste Management
The Bureau of Solid Waste Management was a U.S. federal agency responsible for developing and overseeing national policies and programs for managing solid waste and promoting environmental sanitation prior to its functions being absorbed into the Environmental Protection Agency.
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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 (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
environmental services company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ recycling company ⓘ waste management company ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
WM
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waste Management NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| brandName | WM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customerType |
commercial customers
ⓘ
industrial customers ⓘ municipal customers ⓘ residential customers ⓘ |
| environmentalFocus |
landfill gas-to-energy projects
ⓘ
recycling and resource recovery ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | Oak Brook, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder |
Dean Buntrock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John E. Drury NERFINISHED ⓘ Lawrence Beck NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Fatjo NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Huizenga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
WM Recycle America (historical)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wheelabrator Technologies (historical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1968 ⓘ |
| industry |
environmental services
ⓘ
recycling ⓘ waste management ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| notableFacilityType |
landfills
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recycling facilities ⓘ transfer stations ⓘ waste-to-energy plants ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 40,000 ⓘ |
| services |
construction and demolition waste services
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environmental consulting ⓘ hazardous waste disposal ⓘ industrial waste services ⓘ landfill disposal ⓘ organic waste processing ⓘ recycling brokerage services ⓘ recycling services ⓘ transfer station operations ⓘ waste collection ⓘ waste-to-energy services ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.wm.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: Waste Management, Inc. Description of subject: Waste Management, Inc. is a leading North American provider of waste collection, recycling, and disposal services for residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.