The Howard Hughes Corporation
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The Howard Hughes Corporation is a major American real estate development and management company known for owning and redeveloping prominent mixed-use properties and landmark urban sites across the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Howard Hughes Corporation canonical | 3 |
| Howard Hughes business empire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9567484 — 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: The Howard Hughes Corporation Context triple: [Pier 17, ownedBy, The Howard Hughes Corporation]
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A.
Hulman & Company
Hulman & Company is an American holding company best known for its longtime ownership and operation of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.
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B.
Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate best known in aerospace for building the Space Shuttle orbiters and contributing extensively to U.S. defense and space programs.
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C.
PPL Corporation
PPL Corporation is a major U.S.-based energy company that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to millions of customers.
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D.
Lancaster Corporation
Lancaster Corporation was the historic municipal governing body responsible for administering the city and port of Lancaster in England.
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E.
United Aircraft Corporation
United Aircraft Corporation was the original name of the American industrial conglomerate that evolved into United Technologies Corporation, a major aerospace and defense company.
- 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: The Howard Hughes Corporation Target entity description: The Howard Hughes Corporation is a major American real estate development and management company known for owning and redeveloping prominent mixed-use properties and landmark urban sites across the United States.
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A.
Hulman & Company
Hulman & Company is an American holding company best known for its longtime ownership and operation of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500.
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B.
Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate best known in aerospace for building the Space Shuttle orbiters and contributing extensively to U.S. defense and space programs.
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C.
PPL Corporation
PPL Corporation is a major U.S.-based energy company that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to millions of customers.
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D.
Lancaster Corporation
Lancaster Corporation was the historic municipal governing body responsible for administering the city and port of Lancaster in England.
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E.
United Aircraft Corporation
United Aircraft Corporation was the original name of the American industrial conglomerate that evolved into United Technologies Corporation, a major aerospace and defense company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
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real estate company ⓘ |
| businessModel | owning, managing, and redeveloping large-scale real estate assets ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Dallas, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | General Growth Properties (through spin-off of assets) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | The Woodlands, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2010 ⓘ |
| industry |
property management
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real estate ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
David R. O’Reilly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Ackman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| listedIn | S&P SmallCap 600 (historically) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Howard Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableProject |
Development of The Woodlands Town Center in Texas
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Downtown Columbia revitalization in Maryland ⓘ Expansion and development of Summerlin in Las Vegas Valley ⓘ Seaport District redevelopment in New York City ⓘ Ward Village redevelopment in Honolulu ⓘ |
| owns |
Bridgeland, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Downtown Columbia, Maryland (major land holdings) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fashion Show air rights and related assets, Las Vegas Strip (historically associated) NERFINISHED ⓘ Seaport District, Lower Manhattan, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Summerlin, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ The Woodlands Hills, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ The Woodlands, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ward Village, Honolulu, Hawaii NERFINISHED ⓘ hospitality properties ⓘ multifamily residential properties ⓘ office properties ⓘ retail properties ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Pershing Square Capital Management (significant shareholder and influence) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
David R. O’Reilly – Chief Executive Officer
NERFINISHED
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William Ackman – Chairman of the Board NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
master-planned communities
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mixed-use developments ⓘ redevelopment of urban waterfronts ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | HHC 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: The Howard Hughes Corporation Description of subject: The Howard Hughes Corporation is a major American real estate development and management company known for owning and redeveloping prominent mixed-use properties and landmark urban sites across the United States.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Pershing Square Holdings (historical significant shareholder)
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hasSignificantShareholderRoleIn
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The Howard Hughes Corporation
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subject surface form:
Pershing Square Holdings
this entity surface form:
Howard Hughes business empire