Triple

T361382
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Costco Wholesale Corporation E7861 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object COST
COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
 E45775 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: COST | Statement: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, tickerSymbol, COST]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: COST
Context triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, tickerSymbol, COST]
  • A. CST
    CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
  • B. COT
    COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
  • C. Tarifit
    Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
  • D. The Price
    The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
  • E. CREST
    CREST is the UK’s central securities depository and electronic settlement system used to hold and settle trades in shares and other securities.
  • 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: COST
Triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, tickerSymbol, COST]
Generated description
COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: COST
Target entity description: COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
  • A. CST
    CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
  • B. COT
    COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
  • C. Tarifit
    Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
  • D. The Price
    The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
  • E. CREST
    CREST is the UK’s central securities depository and electronic settlement system used to hold and settle trades in shares and other securities.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebce64c88190a0a8edcc7095f78b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e57a56e081909004fcd7e15f457c completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e5e50b848190ab5d036719048df8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e63c749c8190b5bfd85b7ccafa9c completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.