Malt-O-Meal Company
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Malt-O-Meal Company was an American breakfast cereal manufacturer best known for its value-priced bagged cereals and hot wheat cereal products.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Malt-O-Meal | 2 |
| Malt-O-Meal Company canonical | 2 |
| Malt-O-Meal Company (via Post Consumer Brands) | 1 |
| Malt-O-Meal cereals | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10683491 — 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: Malt-O-Meal Company Context triple: [Post Consumer Brands, predecessor, Malt-O-Meal Company]
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A.
Postum Cereal Company
Postum Cereal Company was an American food manufacturer best known as the predecessor to General Foods and for producing popular breakfast cereals and the Postum coffee substitute.
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B.
Kellogg Company
Kellogg Company is a major American multinational food manufacturing company best known for its breakfast cereals and convenience foods.
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C.
Quaker Oats
Quaker Oats is a well-known American food brand specializing in oatmeal and other grain-based products.
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D.
General Mills
General Mills is a major American multinational food company known for producing popular brands of cereals, snacks, and packaged foods.
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E.
Champion Foods
Champion Foods is a food manufacturing and distribution company owned by Ilitch Holdings, known for producing private-label and branded food products, particularly in the pizza and snack categories.
- 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: Malt-O-Meal Company Target entity description: Malt-O-Meal Company was an American breakfast cereal manufacturer best known for its value-priced bagged cereals and hot wheat cereal products.
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A.
Postum Cereal Company
Postum Cereal Company was an American food manufacturer best known as the predecessor to General Foods and for producing popular breakfast cereals and the Postum coffee substitute.
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B.
Kellogg Company
Kellogg Company is a major American multinational food manufacturing company best known for its breakfast cereals and convenience foods.
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C.
Quaker Oats
Quaker Oats is a well-known American food brand specializing in oatmeal and other grain-based products.
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D.
General Mills
General Mills is a major American multinational food company known for producing popular brands of cereals, snacks, and packaged foods.
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E.
Champion Foods
Champion Foods is a food manufacturing and distribution company owned by Ilitch Holdings, known for producing private-label and branded food products, particularly in the pizza and snack categories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
breakfast cereal manufacturer
ⓘ
food manufacturing company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Post Holdings ⓘ |
| brand |
Malt-O-Meal
ⓘ
linked to:
Malt-O-Meal Company
|
| businessModel | private-label style value pricing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOn | low-cost alternatives to national cereal brands ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
Malt-O-Meal cereals
ⓘ
linked to:
Malt-O-Meal Company
|
| hasBrandForm | bagged cereal format ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
General Mills
ⓘ
Kellogg Company ⓘ Post Foods ⓘ Quaker Oats Company ⓘ
linked to:
Quaker Oats
|
| hasDistributionChannel |
club stores
ⓘ
mass retail ⓘ retail grocery ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Minnesota ⓘ |
| industry |
breakfast cereal industry
ⓘ
food industry ⓘ |
| marketPosition | value brand ⓘ |
| notableFor |
hot wheat cereal products
ⓘ
value-priced bagged cereals ⓘ |
| packagingType |
boxes
ⓘ
plastic bags ⓘ |
| product |
Malt-O-Meal hot wheat cereal
ⓘ
bagged breakfast cereals ⓘ ready-to-eat breakfast cereals ⓘ |
| productCategory |
cold cereal
ⓘ
hot cereal ⓘ |
| soldIn |
grocery stores in the United States
ⓘ
mass merchandisers in the United States ⓘ |
| successor | Post Consumer Brands ⓘ |
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: Malt-O-Meal Company Description of subject: Malt-O-Meal Company was an American breakfast cereal manufacturer best known for its value-priced bagged cereals and hot wheat cereal products.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Malt-O-Meal Company
linked to: Malt-O-Meal Company
linked to: Malt-O-Meal Company
linked to: Malt-O-Meal Company