Peterson Builders, Inc.
E313122
Peterson Builders, Inc. was an American shipbuilding company known for constructing a variety of commercial and military vessels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peterson Builders, Inc. canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2947706 — 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: Peterson Builders, Inc. Context triple: [M/V LeConte, builder, Peterson Builders, Inc.]
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A.
Tellepsen Builders
Tellepsen Builders is a prominent Houston-based construction firm known for managing large-scale commercial and institutional building projects.
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B.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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C.
Walsh Construction Company
Walsh Construction Company is a major American general contracting and construction management firm known for large-scale infrastructure and building projects.
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D.
Peterson Group
Peterson Group is a property investment and development company known for owning and managing prominent commercial real estate assets in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Guber-Peters Company
Guber-Peters Company was a film and television production company co-founded by producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters, known for backing major Hollywood projects in the 1980s.
- 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: Peterson Builders, Inc. Target entity description: Peterson Builders, Inc. was an American shipbuilding company known for constructing a variety of commercial and military vessels.
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A.
Tellepsen Builders
Tellepsen Builders is a prominent Houston-based construction firm known for managing large-scale commercial and institutional building projects.
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B.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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C.
Walsh Construction Company
Walsh Construction Company is a major American general contracting and construction management firm known for large-scale infrastructure and building projects.
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D.
Peterson Group
Peterson Group is a property investment and development company known for owning and managing prominent commercial real estate assets in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Guber-Peters Company
Guber-Peters Company was a film and television production company co-founded by producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters, known for backing major Hollywood projects in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defense contractor
ⓘ
shipbuilding company ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Door County, Wisconsin
ⓘ
linked to:
Door County
|
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| customer |
United States Coast Guard
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ foreign navies ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1995 ⓘ |
| employedIn |
Door County, Wisconsin
ⓘ
linked to:
Door County
|
| foundedBy | Fred Peterson ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | PBI ⓘ |
| hasFormerType | privately held company ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasShipyardAt | Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| inception | 1933 ⓘ |
| industry |
defense industry
ⓘ
shipbuilding ⓘ |
| knownFor |
construction of commercial vessels
ⓘ
construction of military vessels ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
United States of America
ⓘ
Wisconsin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
construction of Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships
ⓘ
construction of Osprey-class coastal minehunters ⓘ construction of landing craft for the U.S. military ⓘ construction of various YTB-class harbor tugs ⓘ |
| operatedDuring |
Cold War
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| operatedFrom | 1933 ⓘ |
| operatedInSector |
ship construction
ⓘ
ship repair ⓘ |
| operatedUntil | 1995 ⓘ |
| partOf | U.S. maritime industrial base ⓘ |
| product |
coast guard cutters
ⓘ
fishing vessels ⓘ landing craft ⓘ minesweepers ⓘ patrol boats ⓘ research vessels ⓘ tugs ⓘ |
| servedBranch |
United States Coast Guard
ⓘ
United States Navy ⓘ foreign naval forces ⓘ |
| significantEvent | closure of shipyard in 1995 ⓘ |
| specializedIn |
mine warfare vessels
ⓘ
small and medium-sized naval vessels ⓘ |
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: Peterson Builders, Inc. Description of subject: Peterson Builders, Inc. was an American shipbuilding company known for constructing a variety of commercial and military vessels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.