Compagnie Générale des Eaux
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Compagnie Générale des Eaux was a major French utilities company, historically focused on water services, that evolved into the multinational environmental services group now known as Veolia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Compagnie Générale des Eaux canonical | 4 |
| SUEZ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5934155 — 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.
Target entity: Compagnie Générale des Eaux Context triple: [Veolia Environnement, foundedBy, Compagnie Générale des Eaux]
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Dalkia
Dalkia is a French energy services company specializing in energy efficiency, district heating and cooling, and sustainable energy solutions for buildings and industry.
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GDF Suez
GDF Suez was a major French multinational energy company, primarily active in electricity and natural gas, that later rebranded as Engie.
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Compagnie Générale d’Electricité
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité was a major French industrial and electronics conglomerate that played a central role in the country’s telecommunications and electrical engineering sectors during much of the 20th century.
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D.
Eiffel et Cie
Eiffel et Cie was the engineering and construction firm through which Gustave Eiffel carried out many of his major iron-structure projects in the late 19th century.
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E.
Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité
Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité was a Paris-based electricity distribution company that played a key role in powering and modernizing the French capital in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Compagnie Générale des Eaux Target entity description: Compagnie Générale des Eaux was a major French utilities company, historically focused on water services, that evolved into the multinational environmental services group now known as Veolia.
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A.
Dalkia
Dalkia is a French energy services company specializing in energy efficiency, district heating and cooling, and sustainable energy solutions for buildings and industry.
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B.
GDF Suez
GDF Suez was a major French multinational energy company, primarily active in electricity and natural gas, that later rebranded as Engie.
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C.
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité
Compagnie Générale d’Electricité was a major French industrial and electronics conglomerate that played a central role in the country’s telecommunications and electrical engineering sectors during much of the 20th century.
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D.
Eiffel et Cie
Eiffel et Cie was the engineering and construction firm through which Gustave Eiffel carried out many of his major iron-structure projects in the late 19th century.
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E.
Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité
Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité was a Paris-based electricity distribution company that played a key role in powering and modernizing the French capital in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French company
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utility company ⓘ water company ⓘ |
| areaServed | international ⓘ |
| businessModel | long-term public service concessions ⓘ |
| competedWith | Lyonnaise des Eaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coreBusinessSpunOffAs |
Veolia
NERFINISHED
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Veolia Environnement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| dissolvedInto | Vivendi group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expandedInto |
energy services sector
ⓘ
transport sector ⓘ waste management sector ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Napoléon III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| historicalNameOf |
Veolia
NERFINISHED
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Veolia Environnement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1853 ⓘ |
| industry |
energy services
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transport services ⓘ waste management ⓘ water services ⓘ |
| legacy | foundation of Veolia group ⓘ |
| legalForm | société anonyme ⓘ |
| listedOn | Paris Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
evolving into a diversified utilities and media group
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pioneering private water concessions in France ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Asia
NERFINISHED
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ France NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owned | water supply concessions in French cities ⓘ |
| partOf | French water industry ⓘ |
| primaryFocus |
wastewater treatment
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water distribution ⓘ |
| rebrandedAs |
Vivendi
NERFINISHED
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Vivendi Environnement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sector | environmental services ⓘ |
| served |
industrial clients
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municipal clients ⓘ |
| status | defunct under original name ⓘ |
| successor |
Veolia
NERFINISHED
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Veolia Environnement NERFINISHED ⓘ Vivendi NERFINISHED ⓘ Vivendi Environnement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| typeOfOwnership | privately owned company ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Compagnie Générale des Eaux Description of subject: Compagnie Générale des Eaux was a major French utilities company, historically focused on water services, that evolved into the multinational environmental services group now known as Veolia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.