Coinstar
E1568
Coinstar is a company best known for its self-service coin-counting kiosks commonly found in supermarkets and retail stores.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coinstar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15029 — 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: Coinstar Context triple: [William D. Ruckelshaus, boardMemberOf, Coinstar]
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A.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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B.
oN-Line System
The oN-Line System (NLS) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and interactive graphical user interfaces.
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C.
NMTI
NMTI is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals, teams, and companies for outstanding contributions to technological innovation and advancement.
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D.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a famous stainless-steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its reflective, bean-like shape and prominence in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
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E.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is a major passenger terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, serving as a primary hub for American Airlines and several international carriers.
- 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: Coinstar Target entity description: Coinstar is a company best known for its self-service coin-counting kiosks commonly found in supermarkets and retail stores.
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A.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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B.
oN-Line System
The oN-Line System (NLS) was an early, pioneering computer system that introduced many foundational concepts of modern computing, including the mouse, hypertext, and interactive graphical user interfaces.
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C.
NMTI
NMTI is a prestigious United States presidential award that honors individuals, teams, and companies for outstanding contributions to technological innovation and advancement.
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D.
Cloud Gate
Cloud Gate is a famous stainless-steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor, known for its reflective, bean-like shape and prominence in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
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E.
Terminal 8
Terminal 8 is a major passenger terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, serving as a primary hub for American Airlines and several international carriers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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financial services company ⓘ |
| businessModelAspect |
revenue from transaction fees
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revenue sharing with retailers ⓘ |
| category |
coin-counting service provider
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kiosk network operator ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
big-box retailers
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grocery chains ⓘ |
| feature |
automatic coin counting
ⓘ
fee-based coin redemption ⓘ |
| hasBrand | Coinstar kiosk ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | kiosk-based services ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
retail technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | self-service coin-counting kiosks ⓘ |
| offers |
cash vouchers for coins
ⓘ
charitable donations for coins ⓘ eGift cards for coins ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
retail stores
ⓘ
supermarkets ⓘ |
| productOrService |
coin-counting kiosks
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coin-to-cash services ⓘ coin-to-charity donation services ⓘ coin-to-eGift-card services ⓘ gift card exchange services ⓘ |
| serviceChannel | physical kiosks ⓘ |
| serviceType | self-service kiosk ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
consumers
ⓘ
retailers ⓘ |
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: Coinstar Description of subject: Coinstar is a company best known for its self-service coin-counting kiosks commonly found in supermarkets and retail stores.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.