Raytheon Company
E1034
Raytheon Company was a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation known for developing advanced military technologies, including missile systems and radar.
All labels observed (12)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9384 — 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: Raytheon Company Context triple: [Bolt Beranek and Newman, parentOrganization, Raytheon Company]
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A.
Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT that focuses on advanced technology for national security and defense.
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B.
United States Steel Corporation
United States Steel Corporation is a major American steel-producing company formed in 1901 through the consolidation of several steel businesses, becoming the world’s first billion-dollar corporation.
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C.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
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D.
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research is a U.S. government agency that coordinates, executes, and promotes science and technology programs for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
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E.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
- 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: Raytheon Company Target entity description: Raytheon Company was a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation known for developing advanced military technologies, including missile systems and radar.
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A.
Lincoln Laboratory
Lincoln Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center operated by MIT that focuses on advanced technology for national security and defense.
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B.
United States Steel Corporation
United States Steel Corporation is a major American steel-producing company formed in 1901 through the consolidation of several steel businesses, becoming the world’s first billion-dollar corporation.
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C.
Stanford Research Institute
Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) is a prominent independent nonprofit research and innovation center known for pioneering advances in computing, artificial intelligence, and other cutting-edge technologies.
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D.
Office of Naval Research
The Office of Naval Research is a U.S. government agency that coordinates, executes, and promotes science and technology programs for the United States Navy and Marine Corps.
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E.
De Forest Radio Telephone Company
De Forest Radio Telephone Company was an early 20th-century American firm that developed and commercialized pioneering radio and wireless telephony technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aerospace and defense company
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defense contractor ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fate | merged into Raytheon Technologies Corporation ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Charles G. Smith
ⓘ
Laurence K. Marshall ⓘ Vannevar Bush ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Waltham, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| inception | 1922 ⓘ |
| industry |
aerospace
ⓘ
defense ⓘ electronics ⓘ |
| keyMarket | military and government customers ⓘ |
| keyTechnology |
guided missile technology
ⓘ
phased-array radar ⓘ precision-guided munitions ⓘ surveillance and reconnaissance systems ⓘ |
| majorCustomer |
NATO member states
ⓘ
linked to:
NATO
U.S. Air Force ⓘ
linked to:
United States Air Force
U.S. Navy ⓘ
linked to:
United States Navy
United States Department of Defense ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| mergerCompletionDate | 2020-04-03 ⓘ |
| mergerWith | United Technologies Corporation ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
expanded through acquisitions in electronics and defense sectors
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played major role in U.S. missile defense programs ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
AMRAAM air-to-air missile
ⓘ
AN/TPY-2 radar ⓘ Aegis radar components ⓘ NASAMS components ⓘ Patriot missile system ⓘ Standard Missile family ⓘ
linked to:
Missile Systems
Tomahawk cruise missile ⓘ |
| originalName | American Appliance Company ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation | Lexington, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| rank | one of the largest U.S. defense contractors ⓘ |
| segment |
Integrated Defense Systems
ⓘ
Intelligence, Information and Services ⓘ Missile Systems ⓘ Space and Airborne Systems ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
air and missile defense
ⓘ
command and control systems ⓘ cybersecurity solutions ⓘ electronic warfare ⓘ missile systems ⓘ radar systems ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| successor |
Raytheon Technologies Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
United Technologies Corporation
|
| tickerSymbol | RTN ⓘ |
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: Raytheon Company Description of subject: Raytheon Company was a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation known for developing advanced military technologies, including missile systems and radar.
Referenced by (89)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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AMRAAM air-to-air missile
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AN/TPY-2 radar
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Richardson, Texas, United States
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UTX
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UTX
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