Tesco
E480672
Tesco is a major British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer and one of the largest supermarket chains in the world.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tesco canonical | 12 |
| Tesco Extra | 3 |
| Tesco plc | 3 |
| Tesco superstore | 3 |
| Tesco Express | 1 |
| Tesco Lotus | 1 |
| Tesco Paddock Wood Superstore | 1 |
| Tesco Superstore | 1 |
| Tesco supermarket | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946220 — 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: Tesco Context triple: [Booker Group, acquiredBy, Tesco]
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A.
Sainsbury
Sainsbury is a prominent British family name most closely associated with the founders and owners of the J Sainsbury supermarket chain and notable figures in business and public life.
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B.
J Sainsbury plc
J Sainsbury plc is a major British supermarket and retail chain, one of the largest and oldest in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Carrefour
Carrefour is a major French multinational retail corporation and one of the world’s largest hypermarket chains.
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D.
Carrefour
Carrefour is a major suburban city in Haiti, located just southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince and known as part of the country's largest metropolitan area.
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E.
Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer is a major British multinational retailer known for its clothing, home goods, and food products.
- 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: Tesco Target entity description: Tesco is a major British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer and one of the largest supermarket chains in the world.
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A.
Sainsbury
Sainsbury is a prominent British family name most closely associated with the founders and owners of the J Sainsbury supermarket chain and notable figures in business and public life.
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B.
J Sainsbury plc
J Sainsbury plc is a major British supermarket and retail chain, one of the largest and oldest in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Carrefour
Carrefour is a major French multinational retail corporation and one of the world’s largest hypermarket chains.
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D.
Carrefour
Carrefour is a major suburban city in Haiti, located just southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince and known as part of the country's largest metropolitan area.
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E.
Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer is a major British multinational retailer known for its clothing, home goods, and food products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Tesco Description of subject: Tesco is a major British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer and one of the largest supermarket chains in the world.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco
linked to: Tesco