Container Corporation of America
E682725
Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Container Corporation of America canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7692764 — 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: Container Corporation of America Context triple: [Walter Paepcke, employer, Container Corporation of America]
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A.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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B.
Brown Corporation
Brown Corporation is the primary governing board of Brown University, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and institutional policies.
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C.
Carrier Corporation
Carrier Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration systems.
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D.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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E.
Martin Company
Martin Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for developing missiles, spacecraft, and military systems before merging into Lockheed Martin.
- 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: Container Corporation of America Target entity description: Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Marcus Corporation
Marcus Corporation is a U.S.-based company best known for its movie theatre and hospitality businesses, including operating cinema chains and hotels.
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B.
Brown Corporation
Brown Corporation is the primary governing board of Brown University, responsible for overseeing its strategic direction, finances, and institutional policies.
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C.
Carrier Corporation
Carrier Corporation is a leading global manufacturer of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and refrigeration systems.
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D.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
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E.
Martin Company
Martin Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor known for developing missiles, spacecraft, and military systems before merging into Lockheed Martin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
packaging company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Jefferson Smurfit Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bauhaus-influenced design ⓘ |
| category |
defunct companies of the United States
ⓘ
packaging companies of the United States ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Charles Eames
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
György Kepes NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ John Massey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Beall NERFINISHED ⓘ László Moholy-Nagy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Eames NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Burtin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employed |
Charles Eames
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
György Kepes NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Bayer NERFINISHED ⓘ John Massey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Beall NERFINISHED ⓘ László Moholy-Nagy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Eames NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Burtin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
corrugated shipping containers
ⓘ
paperboard containers ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Walter Paepcke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Walter Paepcke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
containerboard manufacturing
ⓘ
corrugated containers ⓘ packaging ⓘ |
| influenced |
American corporate design
ⓘ
corporate identity design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Great Ideas of Western Man advertising campaign
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
corporate identity campaigns ⓘ modernist graphic design ⓘ |
| notableCampaign | Great Ideas of Western Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| promoted | modern art in advertising ⓘ |
| sponsored | Great Ideas of Western Man poster series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedDesignStyle |
International Typographic Style
NERFINISHED
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modernism ⓘ |
| usedMedium |
magazine advertisements
ⓘ
posters ⓘ |
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: Container Corporation of America Description of subject: Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.