operates
St James’s Gate Brewery
Role: Corporate operator
No narrower time scope asserted
Current Diageo materials identify St James’s Gate as the home of Guinness and describe continued investment there.
Beer actors · organization
Diageo plc
Global beverage company represented here only as the current corporate owner/operator context for Guinness-related Beer Universe identities.
Identity facts
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- Identity class
- company
- Temporal status
- active
- Place context
- No place asserted for this identity.
Evidence rule
Roles change over time
Ownership, operation, employment, founding, production, and succession are relationship records with their own provenance and, when supported, effective periods. They are not copied into permanent identity labels.
Relationship ledger
Documented connections
Broad associations remain visibly broader than ownership, operation, work, or production relations.
owns
Guinness
Role: Brand owner
No narrower time scope asserted
Diageo presents Guinness as part of its current beer portfolio; this edge represents brand ownership context, not production-site identity.
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brewery
St James’s Gate Brewery
Dublin brewery-site identity historically associated with Arthur Guinness and currently described by Diageo as the home of Guinness.
Navigation heuristic: 44. semantic 16 + evidence 8 + verification 8 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
operates · forward
Diageo plc — operates → St James’s Gate Brewery.
Operation is distinct from ownership, control, brand identity, and production location; temporal scope may matter. Current Diageo materials identify St James’s Gate as the home of Guinness and describe continued investment there.
Evidence: Guinness: Iconic Stout Since 1759 · Diageo Opens Littleconnell Brewery
brewery
Guinness
Guinness represented as a beer brand identity within Diageo’s beer portfolio, not as a legal company or a single physical brewery.
Navigation heuristic: 40. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 8 + confidence 6 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
owns · forward
Diageo plc — owns → Guinness.
Ownership is distinct from brand identity, physical operation, production location, and control; temporal scope may matter. Diageo presents Guinness as part of its current beer portfolio; this edge represents brand ownership context, not production-site identity.
Evidence: Guinness: Iconic Stout Since 1759
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organization primary
Diageo Opens Littleconnell Brewery
Diageo
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organization primary
Guinness: Iconic Stout Since 1759
Diageo
Reuse: citation only. Use factual metadata and derived summaries. Logos, photographs, portraits, trademarks, and other media require separate item-level rights review.