Owens-Illinois
E579904
Owens-Illinois is a major American glass container manufacturer historically headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, widely known for producing bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owens-Illinois canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6221167 — 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: Owens-Illinois Context triple: [Glass City, associatedWith, Owens-Illinois]
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A.
Libbey Glass
Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
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B.
Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a global building materials company best known for its fiberglass insulation, roofing products, and composites.
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C.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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D.
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is a leading American technology company best known for its innovations in specialty glass, ceramics, and advanced materials used in consumer electronics, telecommunications, and scientific applications.
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E.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
- 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: Owens-Illinois Target entity description: Owens-Illinois is a major American glass container manufacturer historically headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, widely known for producing bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry.
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A.
Libbey Glass
Libbey Glass is a prominent American glassware manufacturer known for producing a wide range of tableware and drinkware products for both consumer and commercial markets.
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B.
Owens Corning
Owens Corning is a global building materials company best known for its fiberglass insulation, roofing products, and composites.
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C.
Ball Corporation
Ball Corporation is a major American packaging and aerospace company best known for its metal beverage containers and its former ownership of Ball Aerospace.
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D.
Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated is a leading American technology company best known for its innovations in specialty glass, ceramics, and advanced materials used in consumer electronics, telecommunications, and scientific applications.
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E.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company is a major American glass and coatings manufacturer, historically known as one of the world’s leading producers of flat glass and related industrial materials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
glass manufacturer ⓘ |
| abbreviation | O-I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| customerType |
food and beverage producers
ⓘ
pharmaceutical companies ⓘ |
| focus |
recyclable packaging
ⓘ
sustainable packaging solutions ⓘ |
| formerName |
Owens Bottle Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Owens-Illinois Glass Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Edward Drummond Libbey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael J. Owens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrand | O-I Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | business-to-business manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Ardagh Group
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Verallia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
glass manufacturing plants
ⓘ
recycling facilities ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Owens-Brockway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Ohio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Toledo, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
food and beverage packaging
ⓘ
glass containers ⓘ packaging ⓘ |
| isListed | publicly traded company ⓘ |
| knownFor |
glass packaging for major beverage brands
ⓘ
mass production of glass bottles ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| mainBusiness | manufacture of glass containers ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| materialUsed | glass ⓘ |
| notableTechnology | automatic bottle-making technology ⓘ |
| product |
glass bottles
ⓘ
glass containers ⓘ glass jars ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Europe
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| sector |
manufacturing
ⓘ
materials ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
beverage industry
ⓘ
food industry ⓘ pharmaceutical industry ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | OI NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfGlass | container glass ⓘ |
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: Owens-Illinois Description of subject: Owens-Illinois is a major American glass container manufacturer historically headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, widely known for producing bottles and jars for the food and beverage industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.