Triple

T2033908
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Montgomery Ward E44578 entity
Predicate competitor P1375 FINISHED
Object Sears, Roebuck and Co. E17326 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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, Roebuck and Co. | Statement: [Montgomery Ward, competitor, Sears, Roebuck and Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Context triple: [Montgomery Ward, competitor, Sears, Roebuck and Co.]
  • 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 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.
  • C. Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward was a pioneering American mail-order and department store retailer that became one of the largest and most influential retail chains in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • E. Kmart Corporation
    Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a889144f2481909932f0746a93023d completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb93387488190ac9d8d2746451f2e completed March 7, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1ff03d3c8190adef0224aac989bd completed March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.