Cordis
E72317
Cordis is a medical device company best known for developing and manufacturing cardiovascular and endovascular products such as stents and catheters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cordis canonical | 1 |
| Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577490 — 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: Cordis Context triple: [Hellman & Friedman, notableInvestment, Cordis]
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A.
Behring
Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
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B.
Avegno
Avegno is a French-origin surname notably borne by Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the socialite immortalized in John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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C.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
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D.
Amada
Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple site in Lower Nubia, renowned for its well-preserved reliefs and inscriptions dating back to the 18th Dynasty.
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E.
Soter
Soter is a Greek term meaning "savior" or "deliverer," often used as a title for deities or revered figures who provide salvation or protection.
- 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: Cordis Target entity description: Cordis is a medical device company best known for developing and manufacturing cardiovascular and endovascular products such as stents and catheters.
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A.
Behring
Behring is a German surname most notably associated with Emil Adolf von Behring, the pioneering physiologist and first Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy.
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B.
Avegno
Avegno is a French-origin surname notably borne by Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the socialite immortalized in John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait "Madame X."
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C.
Crescent
Crescent is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train that runs between New York City and New Orleans, serving major cities along the U.S. East Coast and Deep South.
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D.
Amada
Amada is an ancient Egyptian temple site in Lower Nubia, renowned for its well-preserved reliefs and inscriptions dating back to the 18th Dynasty.
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E.
Soter
Soter is a Greek term meaning "savior" or "deliverer," often used as a title for deities or revered figures who provide salvation or protection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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medical device company ⓘ |
| applicationArea |
treatment of cardiovascular disease
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treatment of peripheral vascular disease ⓘ |
| customerType |
healthcare providers
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medical distributors ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
interventional cardiology
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interventional radiology ⓘ vascular surgery ⓘ |
| goal |
advance endovascular therapies
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improve cardiovascular patient outcomes ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
designs medical devices
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distributes medical devices ⓘ manufactures medical devices ⓘ markets medical devices ⓘ |
| industry | medical devices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cardiovascular innovation
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endovascular innovation ⓘ |
| produces |
catheters
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stents ⓘ |
| productType |
balloon catheters
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coronary stents ⓘ diagnostic catheters ⓘ guide catheters ⓘ guidewires ⓘ peripheral stents ⓘ sheaths ⓘ vascular access devices ⓘ |
| regulatoryEnvironment |
subject to cardiovascular device standards
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subject to medical device regulations ⓘ |
| servesMarket |
cardiologists
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catheterization laboratories ⓘ hospitals ⓘ interventional radiologists ⓘ vascular surgeons ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
cardiovascular products
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endovascular products ⓘ |
| technologyDomain |
catheter-based interventions
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minimally invasive therapies ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
biocompatible metals
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polymers ⓘ |
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: Cordis Description of subject: Cordis is a medical device company best known for developing and manufacturing cardiovascular and endovascular products such as stents and catheters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Swan-Ganz pulmonary artery catheter