Walgreens Boots Alliance
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Walgreens Boots Alliance is a major global pharmacy-led health and retail company that operates the Walgreens and Boots drugstore chains, among other health and beauty brands.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walgreens Boots Alliance canonical | 15 |
| Walgreen Co. | 7 |
| Walgreens | 7 |
| Alliance Boots | 3 |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. | 2 |
| Walgreens.com | 2 |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance U.S. operations | 1 |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance U.S. segment | 1 |
| Walgreens-branded drugstores | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T502978 — 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: Walgreens Boots Alliance Context triple: [Valerie Jarrett, boardMemberOf, Walgreens Boots Alliance]
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A.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
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B.
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products.
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C.
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines, and nutritional products.
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D.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is a multinational healthcare conglomerate best known for its pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health products.
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E.
Kenvue
Kenvue is a consumer health company that owns well-known over-the-counter medicine and personal care brands formerly housed within Johnson & Johnson.
- 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: Walgreens Boots Alliance Target entity description: Walgreens Boots Alliance is a major global pharmacy-led health and retail company that operates the Walgreens and Boots drugstore chains, among other health and beauty brands.
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A.
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
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B.
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products.
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C.
Abbott Laboratories
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical devices, diagnostics, branded generic medicines, and nutritional products.
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D.
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is a multinational healthcare conglomerate best known for its pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer health products.
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E.
Kenvue
Kenvue is a consumer health company that owns well-known over-the-counter medicine and personal care brands formerly housed within Johnson & Johnson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
ⓘ
pharmacy-led health and retail company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Asia
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| brandPortfolioIncludes |
Botanics
ⓘ
Liz Earle ⓘ No7 ⓘ Sleek MakeUP ⓘ Soap & Glory ⓘ |
| businessModel |
retail pharmacy chain
ⓘ
wholesale pharmaceutical distribution ⓘ |
| CEO | Tim Wentworth ⓘ |
| chairperson | Stefano Pessina ⓘ |
| coreService |
beauty and personal care retail
ⓘ
health and wellness products retail ⓘ over-the-counter medicine retail ⓘ prescription dispensing ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fiscalYearEnd | August ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Alliance Boots
Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreen Co.
|
| foundedBy |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Alliance Boots
Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreen Co.
|
| hasDivision |
International
ⓘ
U.S. Healthcare ⓘ U.S. Retail Pharmacy ⓘ |
| hasMajorBrand |
Boots
ⓘ
No7 Beauty Company ⓘ Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreens
|
| headquartersLocation |
Deerfield, Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
|
| industry |
beauty
ⓘ
healthcare ⓘ pharmacy ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| ISIN | US9314271084 ⓘ |
| mergerCompletionDate | 2014-12-31 ⓘ |
| notableSubsidiary |
Alliance Healthcare
ⓘ
Boots UK Limited ⓘ Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreen Co.
|
| offers |
pharmacy benefit management services
ⓘ
photo printing services ⓘ vaccination services ⓘ |
| operates |
Boots
ⓘ
Duane Reade ⓘ Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreens
|
| predecessor |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Alliance Boots
Walgreens Boots Alliance self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreen Co.
|
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WBA ⓘ |
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: Walgreens Boots Alliance Description of subject: Walgreens Boots Alliance is a major global pharmacy-led health and retail company that operates the Walgreens and Boots drugstore chains, among other health and beauty brands.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Walgreens
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Alliance Boots
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Alliance Boots
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Alliance Boots
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Walgreens
this entity surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Walgreens
this entity surface form:
Walgreens
this entity surface form:
Walgreens
this entity surface form:
Walgreens.com
this entity surface form:
Walgreens-branded drugstores
this entity surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance U.S. operations
this entity surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance U.S. segment
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.
this entity surface form:
Walgreen Co.