Starwood Hotels & Resorts
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Starwood Hotels & Resorts was a major American hotel and leisure company that operated numerous upscale and luxury hotel brands worldwide before being acquired by Marriott International.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sheraton Hotels and Resorts | 3 |
| Starwood Hotels & Resorts canonical | 1 |
| Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide | 1 |
| Starwood Preferred Guest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8852741 — 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: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Context triple: [St. Regis Hotel (New York), formerOwner, Starwood Hotels & Resorts]
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A.
Marriott International
Marriott International is a global hospitality company that owns, manages, and franchises a wide portfolio of hotel and lodging brands worldwide.
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B.
Radisson Hotel Group
Radisson Hotel Group is a global hospitality company that owns and operates a portfolio of hotel brands ranging from upscale to midscale properties across numerous countries.
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C.
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Hilton Hotels Corporation is a major American multinational hospitality company known for its global network of hotels and resorts across a wide range of market segments.
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D.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is a global hospitality company that owns, manages, and franchises a portfolio of upscale and luxury hotels, resorts, and vacation properties under multiple brand names.
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E.
Loews Hotels
Loews Hotels is an American luxury hospitality company that owns and operates upscale hotels and resorts across major cities and vacation destinations.
- 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: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Target entity description: Starwood Hotels & Resorts was a major American hotel and leisure company that operated numerous upscale and luxury hotel brands worldwide before being acquired by Marriott International.
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A.
Marriott International
Marriott International is a global hospitality company that owns, manages, and franchises a wide portfolio of hotel and lodging brands worldwide.
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B.
Radisson Hotel Group
Radisson Hotel Group is a global hospitality company that owns and operates a portfolio of hotel brands ranging from upscale to midscale properties across numerous countries.
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C.
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Hilton Hotels Corporation is a major American multinational hospitality company known for its global network of hotels and resorts across a wide range of market segments.
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D.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation
Hyatt Hotels Corporation is a global hospitality company that owns, manages, and franchises a portfolio of upscale and luxury hotels, resorts, and vacation properties under multiple brand names.
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E.
Loews Hotels
Loews Hotels is an American luxury hospitality company that owns and operates upscale hotels and resorts across major cities and vacation destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hospitality company
ⓘ
hotel company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Starwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Marriott International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| continentHeadquarters | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolved | 2016 ⓘ |
| fate | merged into Marriott International ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | White Plains, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Barry Sternlicht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadKeyPerson |
Adam Aron
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frits van Paasschen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadSubsidiary | Starwood Vacation Ownership NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Stamford, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| industry |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
hotel industry ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| notableBrandCategory |
luxury hotels
GENERATED
ⓘ
upscale hotels GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfCountriesServed | over 100 ⓘ |
| numberOfProperties | over 1,200 ⓘ |
| operatedBrand |
Aloft Hotels
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Design Hotels NERFINISHED ⓘ Element Hotels NERFINISHED ⓘ Four Points by Sheraton NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Méridien NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheraton NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Regis NERFINISHED ⓘ The Luxury Collection NERFINISHED ⓘ Tribute Portfolio NERFINISHED ⓘ W Hotels NERFINISHED ⓘ Westin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin America NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownedLoyaltyProgram | Starwood Preferred Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentOrganizationAfterAcquisition | Marriott International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productOrService |
hotel rooms
ⓘ
loyalty program ⓘ resorts ⓘ vacation ownership ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | HOT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Description of subject: Starwood Hotels & Resorts was a major American hotel and leisure company that operated numerous upscale and luxury hotel brands worldwide before being acquired by Marriott International.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
this entity surface form:
Starwood Preferred Guest
this entity surface form:
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
this entity surface form:
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
this entity surface form:
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts