Olympia Brewing Company
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Olympia Brewing Company was a historic American brewery based in Tumwater, Washington, best known for its Olympia Beer and its long-running “It’s the Water” advertising slogan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Olympia Brewing Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7443069 — 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)
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Target entity: Olympia Brewing Company Context triple: [Old Brewhouse (Olympia Brewing Company), associatedWith, Olympia Brewing Company]
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A.
Rainier Brewing Company
Rainier Brewing Company is a historic Pacific Northwest brewery best known for its Rainier Beer brand and its long association with Seattle and regional baseball culture.
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B.
Odell Brewing Company
Odell Brewing Company is a prominent craft brewery known for its innovative beers and taproom experience, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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C.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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D.
Griffin Brewery
Griffin Brewery is a historic London brewery best known as the home of Fuller’s beers and its long association with nearby Griffin Park football stadium.
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E.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Olympia Brewing Company Target entity description: Olympia Brewing Company was a historic American brewery based in Tumwater, Washington, best known for its Olympia Beer and its long-running “It’s the Water” advertising slogan.
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A.
Rainier Brewing Company
Rainier Brewing Company is a historic Pacific Northwest brewery best known for its Rainier Beer brand and its long association with Seattle and regional baseball culture.
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B.
Odell Brewing Company
Odell Brewing Company is a prominent craft brewery known for its innovative beers and taproom experience, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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C.
Lagunitas Brewing Company
Lagunitas Brewing Company is a prominent American craft brewery known for its hop-forward beers and playful, irreverent branding.
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D.
Griffin Brewery
Griffin Brewery is a historic London brewery best known as the home of Fuller’s beers and its long association with nearby Griffin Park football stadium.
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E.
Schaefer Brewing Company
Schaefer Brewing Company was a prominent American brewery best known for its Schaefer Beer brand and extensive sports and cultural sponsorships in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brewery
ⓘ
defunct company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Heileman Brewing Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pabst Brewing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Stroh Brewery Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 1983 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Olympia, Washington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tumwater Falls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brandOwner | Pabst Brewing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessStatus | closed brewery ⓘ |
| category |
American beer brands
ⓘ
Companies based in Thurston County, Washington ⓘ Defunct breweries of the United States ⓘ |
| closed | 2003 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionScope | regional ⓘ |
| eraOfGreatestPopularity | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| foundedAs | independent regional brewery ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Leopold Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Olympia Gold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Olympia Ice NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympia Light NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
New Olympia Brewery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Olympia Brewery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Tumwater, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | part of American brewing history ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historic American brewery ⓘ |
| inception | 1896 ⓘ |
| industry | brewing industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
Tumwater, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington ⓘ
surface form:
Washington (state)
|
| locatedOn | Deschutes River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| logoText | Olympia Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketingEmphasis | purity of local water ⓘ |
| notableFor |
It’s the Water slogan
ⓘ
long-running advertising campaigns ⓘ regional popularity in the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| notableProduct | Olympia Beer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalName | Capital Brewing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productType |
beer
ⓘ
lager ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
West Coast of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedAs | Olympia Brewing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamingDate | 1902 ⓘ |
| slogan | It’s the Water ⓘ |
| waterSource | artesian wells ⓘ |
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: Olympia Brewing Company Description of subject: Olympia Brewing Company was a historic American brewery based in Tumwater, Washington, best known for its Olympia Beer and its long-running “It’s the Water” advertising slogan.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.