Lubrizol
E79843
Lubrizol is a specialty chemicals company best known for producing additives and advanced materials used in lubricants, personal care products, and industrial applications.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lubrizol canonical | 8 |
| The Lubrizol Corporation | 3 |
| Lubrizol Advanced Materials | 2 |
| Lubrizol Additives | 1 |
| Lubrizol Life Science | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T638807 — 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: Lubrizol Context triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, owns, Lubrizol]
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A.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is a major American multinational chemical corporation known for producing a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and consumer chemical products.
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B.
DuPont
DuPont is a major American chemical company historically known for pioneering materials science innovations and playing a key role in U.S. industrial and wartime production.
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C.
Unilever
Unilever is a multinational consumer goods company known for its wide range of food, personal care, and household products sold globally.
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D.
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a multinational consumer goods corporation known for a wide range of household, personal care, and hygiene brands sold globally.
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E.
Texaco
Texaco is a major American oil company known for its gasoline brand and extensive global petroleum operations.
- 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: Lubrizol Target entity description: Lubrizol is a specialty chemicals company best known for producing additives and advanced materials used in lubricants, personal care products, and industrial applications.
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A.
Dow Chemical Company
Dow Chemical Company is a major American multinational chemical corporation known for producing a wide range of industrial, agricultural, and consumer chemical products.
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B.
DuPont
DuPont is a major American chemical company historically known for pioneering materials science innovations and playing a key role in U.S. industrial and wartime production.
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C.
Unilever
Unilever is a multinational consumer goods company known for its wide range of food, personal care, and household products sold globally.
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D.
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a multinational consumer goods corporation known for a wide range of household, personal care, and hygiene brands sold globally.
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E.
Texaco
Texaco is a major American oil company known for its gasoline brand and extensive global petroleum operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
specialty chemicals company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Berkshire Hathaway ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| businessDivision |
Lubrizol Additives
ⓘ
linked to:
Lubrizol
Lubrizol Advanced Materials ⓘ
linked to:
Lubrizol
Lubrizol Life Science ⓘ
linked to:
Lubrizol
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Kent H. Smith
ⓘ
Roy W. Uihlein ⓘ Vincent Smith ⓘ |
| hasFacilityIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| headquartersLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Wickliffe, Ohio ⓘ |
| inception | 1928 ⓘ |
| industry |
additives manufacturing
ⓘ
chemicals industry ⓘ specialty chemicals ⓘ |
| notableBrand |
Carbopol
ⓘ
Estane ⓘ TempRite ⓘ |
| notableProductArea |
detergent and dispersant additives
ⓘ
emulsifiers ⓘ fragrance ingredients ⓘ rheology modifiers ⓘ viscosity modifiers ⓘ |
| originalName | The Lubri-Graph Company ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Berkshire Hathaway ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Berkshire Hathaway ⓘ |
| productOrService |
CPVC (chlorinated polyvinyl chloride)
ⓘ
TPU (thermoplastic polyurethanes) ⓘ advanced materials ⓘ engine oil additives ⓘ fuel additives ⓘ industrial lubricant additives ⓘ lubricant additives ⓘ performance coatings ⓘ personal care ingredients ⓘ pharmaceutical excipients ⓘ polyurethanes ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
automotive industry
ⓘ
industrial manufacturing ⓘ oil and gas industry ⓘ personal care industry ⓘ pharmaceutical industry ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| stockStatus | delisted ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | LZ ⓘ |
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: Lubrizol Description of subject: Lubrizol is a specialty chemicals company best known for producing additives and advanced materials used in lubricants, personal care products, and industrial applications.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lubrizol
linked to: Lubrizol
linked to: Lubrizol
linked to: Lubrizol
linked to: Lubrizol
linked to: Lubrizol