Torchmark Corporation
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Torchmark Corporation was the former name of Globe Life, a major U.S. life and health insurance holding company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Torchmark Corporation canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10479880 — 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: Torchmark Corporation Context triple: [Globe Life, formerlyKnownAs, Torchmark Corporation]
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A.
Protective Life Corporation
Protective Life Corporation is a U.S.-based insurance and financial services company known for offering life insurance, annuities, and asset protection products.
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B.
SunAmerica
SunAmerica is a major U.S. financial services company best known for its retirement savings and annuity products.
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C.
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company is one of the largest and oldest mutual life insurance companies in the United States, offering a range of insurance and financial products.
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D.
Aon Corporation
Aon Corporation is a global professional services firm specializing in risk management, insurance brokerage, and human capital consulting.
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E.
Marsh & McLennan
Marsh & McLennan is a global professional services firm specializing in insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting.
- 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: Torchmark Corporation Target entity description: Torchmark Corporation was the former name of Globe Life, a major U.S. life and health insurance holding company.
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A.
Protective Life Corporation
Protective Life Corporation is a U.S.-based insurance and financial services company known for offering life insurance, annuities, and asset protection products.
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B.
SunAmerica
SunAmerica is a major U.S. financial services company best known for its retirement savings and annuity products.
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C.
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life Insurance Company is one of the largest and oldest mutual life insurance companies in the United States, offering a range of insurance and financial products.
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D.
Aon Corporation
Aon Corporation is a global professional services firm specializing in risk management, insurance brokerage, and human capital consulting.
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E.
Marsh & McLennan
Marsh & McLennan is a global professional services firm specializing in insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
insurance holding company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ |
| businessModel | holding company ⓘ |
| changedNameTo | Globe Life Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
simplified-issue life insurance
ⓘ
supplemental health products ⓘ |
| formerlyTradedAs | NYSE:TMK NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerNameOf | Globe Life Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
American Income Life
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Family Heritage Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Globe Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberty National NERFINISHED ⓘ National Income Life NERFINISHED ⓘ United American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessFocus |
individual life insurance
ⓘ
individual supplemental health insurance ⓘ |
| hasCorporateSuccessor | Globe Life Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFormerName | Torchmark Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
American Income Life Insurance Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Family Heritage Life Insurance Company of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ Liberty National Life Insurance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ National Income Life Insurance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ United American Insurance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | McKinney, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
health insurance
ⓘ
insurance ⓘ life insurance ⓘ |
| isPredecessorOf | Globe Life Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| nameChangeEffectiveDate | 2019 ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | financial services ⓘ |
| operatesThrough |
direct-to-consumer channels
ⓘ
exclusive agents ⓘ independent agents ⓘ |
| primaryListingExchange | New York Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providesService |
health insurance policies
ⓘ
life insurance policies ⓘ supplemental health insurance ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| targetMarket | middle-income households ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | GL NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NYSE:GL 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: Torchmark Corporation Description of subject: Torchmark Corporation was the former name of Globe Life, a major U.S. life and health insurance holding company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.