Makro (UK)
E480674
Makro (UK) is a British cash-and-carry wholesale chain serving businesses and trade customers, operating under the Booker Group.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Makro | 4 |
| Makro (UK) canonical | 1 |
| Makro (international brand) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946230 — 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: Makro (UK) Context triple: [Booker Group, hasSubsidiaryBrand, Makro (UK)]
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A.
Makatsch
Makatsch is the surname of German actress and television presenter Heike Makatsch, known for her roles in films such as "Love Actually" and "Resident Evil."
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B.
Kaldor
Kaldor is a surname most prominently associated with Nicholas Kaldor, a 20th-century economist known for his influential contributions to post-Keynesian economic theory.
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C.
Invermark
Invermark is a small settlement in the remote upper reaches of Glen Esk in Angus, Scotland, known as a gateway to surrounding hills and historic estates.
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D.
Friston
Friston is a small village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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E.
Westland
Westland is a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland known for its extensive greenhouse horticulture and flower production.
- 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: Makro (UK) Target entity description: Makro (UK) is a British cash-and-carry wholesale chain serving businesses and trade customers, operating under the Booker Group.
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A.
Makatsch
Makatsch is the surname of German actress and television presenter Heike Makatsch, known for her roles in films such as "Love Actually" and "Resident Evil."
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B.
Kaldor
Kaldor is a surname most prominently associated with Nicholas Kaldor, a 20th-century economist known for his influential contributions to post-Keynesian economic theory.
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C.
Invermark
Invermark is a small settlement in the remote upper reaches of Glen Esk in Angus, Scotland, known as a gateway to surrounding hills and historic estates.
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D.
Friston
Friston is a small village and civil parish located in the county of Suffolk in eastern England.
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E.
Westland
Westland is a municipality in the Dutch province of South Holland known for its extensive greenhouse horticulture and flower production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cash-and-carry wholesale chain
ⓘ
company ⓘ |
| brandOf | Booker Group ⓘ |
| brandOrigin |
Makro (international brand)
ⓘ
linked to:
Makro (UK)
|
| brandTerritory | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| businessModel | membership-based wholesale ⓘ |
| businessType | wholesale warehouse club ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| customerType | business-only ⓘ |
| distributionChannel | cash-and-carry depots ⓘ |
| focus | serving professional customers ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Bestway Wholesale
ⓘ
linked to:
Booker Wholesale
Booker Wholesale ⓘ Costco UK ⓘ
linked to:
Costco Wholesale Corporation
|
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasParentBrand |
Makro
ⓘ
linked to:
Makro (UK)
|
| hasSalesChannel | in-store wholesale ⓘ |
| industry | wholesale ⓘ |
| isIndirectSubsidiaryOf |
Tesco plc
ⓘ
linked to:
Tesco
|
| isSubsidiaryOf | Booker Group ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ Wales ⓘ |
| market | business-to-business ⓘ |
| offers |
bulk purchasing
ⓘ
trade-only pricing ⓘ |
| operatesAs | cash-and-carry ⓘ |
| operatingStatus | active ⓘ |
| ownsBrand |
Makro
ⓘ
linked to:
Makro (UK)
|
| parentCompany | Booker Group ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tesco plc
ⓘ
linked to:
Tesco
|
| productType |
food and drink
ⓘ
non-food goods ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction | United Kingdom law ⓘ |
| requires | trade membership ⓘ |
| sector |
food wholesale
ⓘ
non-food wholesale ⓘ |
| serves |
business customers
ⓘ
trade customers ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
caterers
ⓘ
foodservice operators ⓘ independent 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: Makro (UK) Description of subject: Makro (UK) is a British cash-and-carry wholesale chain serving businesses and trade customers, operating under the Booker Group.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Makro (UK)
linked to: Makro (UK)
linked to: Makro (UK)
linked to: Makro (UK)
linked to: Makro (UK)