Triple

T1286285
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William R. Sears E27440 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sears
Sears is a historic American retail company best known for its former dominance as a mail-order catalog and department store chain.
E17326 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Sears | Statement: [William R. Sears, familyName, Sears]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears
Context triple: [William R. Sears, familyName, Sears]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Sears Outlet
    Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • 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.
  • D. Sears Canada
    Sears Canada was a major Canadian department store chain that operated retail stores, catalog, and online shopping until its closure in 2018.
  • E. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Sears
Triple: [William R. Sears, familyName, Sears]
Generated description
Sears is a historic American retail company best known for its former dominance as a mail-order catalog and department store chain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears
Target entity description: Sears is a historic American retail company best known for its former dominance as a mail-order catalog and department store chain.
  • A. Sears, Roebuck & Co. chosen
    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.
  • B. Sears Outlet
    Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • 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.
  • D. Sears Canada
    Sears Canada was a major Canadian department store chain that operated retail stores, catalog, and online shopping until its closure in 2018.
  • E. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a496d4ec448190ad653b2590c46711 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c0b85eb48190a8b61dc397fa6390 completed March 1, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca3004b648190a4148b0421699bf9 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3a6c8508190bac1ecaf57e40bb0 completed March 7, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca40068f08190a49f9cbb5c78b471 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.