WMS Industries
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WMS Industries was an American gaming company best known for manufacturing slot machines and arcade games, including classic titles under the Williams and Midway brands.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WMS Industries canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11250929 — 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: WMS Industries Context triple: [Midway Games, parentCompany, WMS Industries]
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A.
Madison Industries
Madison Industries is a privately held industrial conglomerate based in Chicago, known for acquiring and growing a diverse portfolio of manufacturing and engineering businesses across sectors such as health, safety, and infrastructure.
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B.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a major American conglomerate best known for its diversified operations in electronics, defense, and industrial manufacturing during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Wasmer, Inc.
Wasmer, Inc. is a software company best known for creating tools and infrastructure that run WebAssembly applications across diverse environments.
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D.
Webscoe Industries
Webscoe Industries is a powerful, fictional multinational conglomerate owned by the villainous tycoon Ross Webster in the film "Superman III."
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E.
MWAK Company
MWAK Company was a major construction consortium responsible for building the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures and hydroelectric power projects in the United States.
- 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: WMS Industries Target entity description: WMS Industries was an American gaming company best known for manufacturing slot machines and arcade games, including classic titles under the Williams and Midway brands.
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A.
Madison Industries
Madison Industries is a privately held industrial conglomerate based in Chicago, known for acquiring and growing a diverse portfolio of manufacturing and engineering businesses across sectors such as health, safety, and infrastructure.
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B.
Litton Industries
Litton Industries was a major American conglomerate best known for its diversified operations in electronics, defense, and industrial manufacturing during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Wasmer, Inc.
Wasmer, Inc. is a software company best known for creating tools and infrastructure that run WebAssembly applications across diverse environments.
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D.
Webscoe Industries
Webscoe Industries is a powerful, fictional multinational conglomerate owned by the villainous tycoon Ross Webster in the film "Superman III."
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E.
MWAK Company
MWAK Company was a major construction consortium responsible for building the Grand Coulee Dam, one of the largest concrete structures and hydroelectric power projects in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gaming company
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public company ⓘ slot machine manufacturer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Scientific Games Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brand |
Midway
NERFINISHED
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WMS Gaming NERFINISHED ⓘ Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| defunct | true ⓘ |
| defunctYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| formerName | Williams Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Harry E. Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Midway Manufacturing Company
NERFINISHED
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WMS Gaming NERFINISHED ⓘ Williams Electronics Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1943 ⓘ |
| industry |
casino gaming equipment
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gaming ⓘ video game industry ⓘ |
| laterBusiness | casino slot machine manufacturing ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Williams and Midway classic arcade titles
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innovative video slot machines ⓘ licensed branded slot games ⓘ |
| notableGamePlatform |
Midway arcade hardware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Williams pinball platform NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Midway arcade games
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Williams pinball machines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBusiness | pinball machine manufacturing ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Scientific Games Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
arcade video games
ⓘ
casino gaming machines ⓘ pinball machines ⓘ slot machines ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| sector |
entertainment
ⓘ
gambling equipment ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| stockExchangeListing | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor | Scientific Games Gaming division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WMS 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: WMS Industries Description of subject: WMS Industries was an American gaming company best known for manufacturing slot machines and arcade games, including classic titles under the Williams and Midway brands.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.