Lindsay Corporation
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Lindsay Corporation is an American company best known for manufacturing and providing irrigation systems and infrastructure equipment for agriculture and transportation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lindsay Corporation canonical | 9 |
| Lindsay Transportation Solutions | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T870652 — 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: Lindsay Corporation Context triple: [Howard Graham Buffett, boardMemberOf, Lindsay Corporation]
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A.
Lerner Enterprises
Lerner Enterprises is a major privately held real estate development and management company based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
Graham-Newman Corporation
Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
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C.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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D.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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E.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- 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: Lindsay Corporation Target entity description: Lindsay Corporation is an American company best known for manufacturing and providing irrigation systems and infrastructure equipment for agriculture and transportation.
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A.
Lerner Enterprises
Lerner Enterprises is a major privately held real estate development and management company based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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B.
Graham-Newman Corporation
Graham-Newman Corporation was an influential mid-20th-century investment partnership known for pioneering value investing principles under Benjamin Graham’s leadership.
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C.
John Company
John Company is a historical nickname for the British East India Company, the powerful trading corporation that played a central role in establishing British rule in India.
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D.
Wirtz Corporation
Wirtz Corporation is a Chicago-based, family-owned holding company with major interests in sports, liquor distribution, and real estate, best known for controlling the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks.
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E.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
irrigation equipment manufacturer
ⓘ
manufacturing company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| brand |
Elecsys
ⓘ
linked to:
Roche Diagnostics
Road Zipper System ⓘ Snoline ⓘ Zimmatic ⓘ |
| businessDivision |
infrastructure segment
ⓘ
irrigation segment ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn |
precision irrigation
ⓘ
traffic management ⓘ transportation safety ⓘ water conservation in agriculture ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Paul Zimmerer ⓘ |
| hasMajorProductCategory |
infrastructure products
ⓘ
irrigation equipment ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Elecsys Corporation
ⓘ
Lindsay Transportation Solutions ⓘ
linked to:
Lindsay Corporation
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.lindsay.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Omaha, Nebraska ⓘ |
| inception | 1955 ⓘ |
| industry |
agricultural equipment
ⓘ
infrastructure equipment ⓘ irrigation systems ⓘ transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| notableFor |
manufacturing center pivot irrigation systems
ⓘ
providing movable barrier systems for highways ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Africa
ⓘ
Asia ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ |
| originalLocation | Lindsay, Nebraska ⓘ |
| product |
center pivot irrigation systems
ⓘ
crash cushions ⓘ highway guardrails ⓘ irrigation control systems ⓘ lateral move irrigation systems ⓘ road safety products ⓘ roadside barriers ⓘ water management solutions ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
infrastructure ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | LNN ⓘ |
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: Lindsay Corporation Description of subject: Lindsay Corporation is an American company best known for manufacturing and providing irrigation systems and infrastructure equipment for agriculture and transportation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lindsay Corporation
linked to: Lindsay Corporation