Ford River Rouge Complex

E21923

historic site industrial complex manufacturing plant

The Ford River Rouge Complex is a historic, vertically integrated Ford Motor Company manufacturing site in Dearborn, Michigan, renowned as one of the largest and most influential industrial complexes of the 20th century.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Disambiguation Statements Elicitation Referenced by

All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Ford River Rouge Complex canonical	6
Ford Rouge Complex	3
Ford Rouge Factory Tour	2
Dearborn Truck Plant	1
Ford Rouge Center	1
River Rouge Plant	1
offers factory tours through Ford Motor Company	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T165105 — 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: Ford River Rouge Complex
Context triple: [Great Lakes Works, adjacentTo, Ford River Rouge Complex]

A. Bowling Green Assembly Plant
Bowling Green Assembly Plant is a General Motors manufacturing facility in Kentucky best known as the exclusive production site of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car.
B. U.S. Steel Gary Works complex
The U.S. Steel Gary Works complex is a major integrated steel production facility in Gary, Indiana, historically one of the largest steel mills in the world and a cornerstone of American heavy industry.
C. Great Lakes Works
Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
D. Royal Oak, Michigan
Royal Oak, Michigan is a suburban city in the Detroit metropolitan area known for its vibrant downtown, cultural attractions, and residential neighborhoods.
E. Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center is a prominent complex of interconnected skyscrapers on Detroit's riverfront that serves as a major commercial, hotel, and office hub and a symbol of the city's downtown revitalization.
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: Ford River Rouge Complex
Target entity description: The Ford River Rouge Complex is a historic, vertically integrated Ford Motor Company manufacturing site in Dearborn, Michigan, renowned as one of the largest and most influential industrial complexes of the 20th century.

A. Bowling Green Assembly Plant
Bowling Green Assembly Plant is a General Motors manufacturing facility in Kentucky best known as the exclusive production site of the Chevrolet Corvette sports car.
B. U.S. Steel Gary Works complex
The U.S. Steel Gary Works complex is a major integrated steel production facility in Gary, Indiana, historically one of the largest steel mills in the world and a cornerstone of American heavy industry.
C. Great Lakes Works
Great Lakes Works is a large integrated steel manufacturing plant in Michigan known for producing flat-rolled steel products for the automotive and other industries.
D. Royal Oak, Michigan
Royal Oak, Michigan is a suburban city in the Detroit metropolitan area known for its vibrant downtown, cultural attractions, and residential neighborhoods.
E. Renaissance Center
The Renaissance Center is a prominent complex of interconnected skyscrapers on Detroit's riverfront that serves as a major commercial, hotel, and office hub and a symbol of the city's downtown revitalization.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historic site ⓘ industrial complex ⓘ manufacturing plant ⓘ
architect	Albert Kahn ⓘ
constructionStart	1917 ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
currentUse	automobile assembly and related manufacturing ⓘ
designedFor	vertical integration of manufacturing ⓘ
hasPart	assembly plant ⓘ coke ovens ⓘ conveyor systems ⓘ foundry ⓘ glass plant ⓘ ore docks ⓘ power plant ⓘ railroad facilities ⓘ shipping docks ⓘ steel mill ⓘ
hasRenovation	21st century sustainable plant redesign ⓘ late 20th century modernization projects ⓘ
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark (complex elements and related sites) ⓘ linked to: National Historic Landmark
historicalEvent	major labor conflicts in early 20th century ⓘ site of the 1932 Ford Hunger March ⓘ
inception	1917 ⓘ
industrialType	automotive manufacturing ⓘ
influenced	modern industrial plant design ⓘ
influencedBy	Henry Ford’s ideas on mass production ⓘ
locatedNear	Detroit River ⓘ
locatedOn	River Rouge ⓘ
location	Dearborn, Michigan ⓘ linked to: Dearborn, Michigan, United States
namedAfter	River Rouge ⓘ
notableFor	being one of the largest integrated factories in the world ⓘ influence on 20th-century industrial architecture ⓘ mass production of Ford automobiles ⓘ vertical integration from raw materials to finished automobiles ⓘ
operator	Ford Motor Company ⓘ
owner	Ford Motor Company ⓘ
partOf	Ford Motor Company manufacturing system ⓘ linked to: Ford Motor Company
peakEmployment	over 100000 workers ⓘ
peakPeriod	1920s ⓘ 1930s ⓘ
primaryProduct	Ford F-150 (later period assembly) ⓘ linked to: Ford F-Series Ford Model A ⓘ linked to: Ford Model A (1927) Ford Model T components ⓘ Ford Mustang (later period assembly) ⓘ linked to: Ford Mustang
productionStart	1918 ⓘ
significance	key site in U.S. labor history ⓘ symbol of American industrialization ⓘ
timePeriod	20th century ⓘ
touristAttraction	offers factory tours through Ford Motor Company ⓘ linked to: Ford River Rouge Complex