Staples Inc.
E91908
Staples Inc. is a major American office supply retail company known for its chain of stores and business-to-business services.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Staples Inc. canonical | 16 |
| Office Depot | 1 |
| Staples | 1 |
| Staples (as depicted in The Office) | 1 |
| Staples Canada | 1 |
| Staples Easy Button | 1 |
| Staples retail stores | 1 |
| Staples.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T780981 — 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: Staples Inc. Context triple: [Staples Center, namedAfter, Staples Inc.]
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A.
Kmart Corporation
Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
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B.
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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C.
Sears Holdings Corporation
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American retail holding company formed in 2005 that became the parent of Sears and Kmart before ultimately declining into bankruptcy.
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D.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
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E.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
- 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: Staples Inc. Target entity description: Staples Inc. is a major American office supply retail company known for its chain of stores and business-to-business services.
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A.
Kmart Corporation
Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
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B.
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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C.
Sears Holdings Corporation
Sears Holdings Corporation was an American retail holding company formed in 2005 that became the parent of Sears and Kmart before ultimately declining into bankruptcy.
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D.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
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E.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business-to-business service provider
ⓘ
office supply retail company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy |
Leo Kahn
ⓘ
Thomas G. Stemberg ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Brighton, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasBrandSlogan | That was easy ⓘ |
| hasColor |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Amazon
ⓘ
Office Depot ⓘ OfficeMax ⓘ |
| hasMarketingIcon | Easy Button ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployeesApprox | tens of thousands ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePlatform |
Staples Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Staples.com
|
| hasProduct |
office furniture
ⓘ
office supplies ⓘ technology products ⓘ |
| hasRetailFormat |
big-box store
ⓘ
online retail ⓘ |
| hasService |
business-to-business procurement solutions
ⓘ
copying services ⓘ facility and breakroom supplies distribution ⓘ managed print services ⓘ printing services ⓘ shipping services ⓘ technology support services ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Staples Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Staples Canada
|
| headquartersLocation |
Framingham
ⓘ
surface form:
Framingham, Massachusetts
|
| inception | 1986 ⓘ |
| industry |
business services
ⓘ
office supplies ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| knownFor |
business-to-business office solutions
ⓘ
office supply superstores ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| operatesInRegion | North America ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
business-to-business
ⓘ
consumer retail ⓘ |
| servesCustomerType |
individual consumers
ⓘ
large enterprises ⓘ small businesses ⓘ |
| stockExchange |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
|
| tickerSymbol | SPLS ⓘ |
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: Staples Inc. Description of subject: Staples Inc. is a major American office supply retail company known for its chain of stores and business-to-business services.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Roush Fenway Racing
this entity surface form:
Office Depot
this entity surface form:
Staples.com
this entity surface form:
Staples Canada
this entity surface form:
Staples (as depicted in The Office)
this entity surface form:
Staples
this entity surface form:
Staples Easy Button
this entity surface form:
Staples retail stores