Seadrill
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Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor that owns and operates a fleet of drilling rigs used for oil and gas exploration and production worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seadrill canonical | 3 |
| Seadrill Limited | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12783397 — 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: Seadrill Context triple: [Transocean, hasCompetitor, Seadrill]
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A.
Transocean
Transocean is a major offshore drilling contractor that owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon rig involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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B.
Oceaneering International
Oceaneering International is a global engineering and technology company best known for its work in offshore energy services and advanced ride systems for major theme parks.
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C.
ADNOC Drilling
ADNOC Drilling is a major UAE-based drilling and well services company that supports oil and gas exploration and production, primarily for Abu Dhabi’s energy sector.
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D.
Wood Group
Wood Group is a global engineering and consulting company serving the energy and industrial sectors with project, operations, and environmental services.
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E.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
- 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: Seadrill Target entity description: Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor that owns and operates a fleet of drilling rigs used for oil and gas exploration and production worldwide.
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A.
Transocean
Transocean is a major offshore drilling contractor that owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon rig involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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B.
Oceaneering International
Oceaneering International is a global engineering and technology company best known for its work in offshore energy services and advanced ride systems for major theme parks.
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C.
ADNOC Drilling
ADNOC Drilling is a major UAE-based drilling and well services company that supports oil and gas exploration and production, primarily for Abu Dhabi’s energy sector.
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D.
Wood Group
Wood Group is a global engineering and consulting company serving the energy and industrial sectors with project, operations, and environmental services.
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E.
Halliburton
Halliburton is a major American multinational corporation that provides products and services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
offshore drilling contractor ⓘ |
| activity |
gas exploration support
ⓘ
offshore well drilling ⓘ oil exploration support ⓘ |
| assetType |
drillships
ⓘ
jack-up rigs ⓘ offshore drilling rigs ⓘ semi-submersible rigs ⓘ |
| businessModel | contract drilling services ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Noble Corporation
ⓘ
Shelf Drilling ⓘ Transocean ⓘ Valaris ⓘ |
| coreActivity |
offshore drilling for oil and gas
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operation of offshore drilling rigs ⓘ |
| customerType |
international oil companies
ⓘ
national oil companies ⓘ oil and gas companies ⓘ |
| hasFleet | fleet of offshore drilling rigs ⓘ |
| industry |
offshore drilling
ⓘ
oil and gas services ⓘ |
| market |
offshore oil and gas exploration
ⓘ
offshore oil and gas production ⓘ |
| operatesIn | global ⓘ |
| operationalEnvironment |
deepwater
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offshore ⓘ shallow water ⓘ |
| provides | contract drilling services for offshore wells ⓘ |
| providesTo |
independent exploration and production companies
ⓘ
major integrated oil companies ⓘ |
| revenueSource |
dayrate drilling contracts
ⓘ
long-term drilling contracts ⓘ short-term drilling contracts ⓘ |
| riskExposure |
environmental and safety requirements
ⓘ
offshore drilling regulations ⓘ oil price cycles ⓘ |
| roleInValueChain | upstream oil and gas services ⓘ |
| sector | energy ⓘ |
| serviceCategory | oilfield services ⓘ |
| serviceType |
development drilling
ⓘ
exploration drilling ⓘ production drilling support ⓘ |
| technologyFocus | advanced offshore drilling technology ⓘ |
| uses | mobile offshore drilling units ⓘ |
| valueProposition |
global offshore drilling coverage
ⓘ
high-specification offshore drilling capacity ⓘ |
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: Seadrill Description of subject: Seadrill is an offshore drilling contractor that owns and operates a fleet of drilling rigs used for oil and gas exploration and production worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seadrill