Triple
T3868030
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Staples Inc. |
E91908
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasOnlinePlatform |
P57
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Staples.com
Staples.com is the e-commerce website of office supply retailer Staples, offering a wide range of business, school, and technology products for online purchase and delivery.
|
E91908
|
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: Staples.com | Statement: [Staples Inc., hasOnlinePlatform, Staples.com]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Staples.com Context triple: [Staples Inc., hasOnlinePlatform, Staples.com]
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A.
Staples Inc.
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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B.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
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C.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble is a major American bookselling chain known for its large retail bookstores that offer a wide selection of books, magazines, and related media, often alongside in-store cafés.
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E.
Michaels Companies
Michaels Companies is a major North American specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, and home décor products.
- 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: Staples.com Triple: [Staples Inc., hasOnlinePlatform, Staples.com]
Generated description
Staples.com is the e-commerce website of office supply retailer Staples, offering a wide range of business, school, and technology products for online purchase and delivery.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Staples.com Target entity description: Staples.com is the e-commerce website of office supply retailer Staples, offering a wide range of business, school, and technology products for online purchase and delivery.
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A.
Staples Inc.
chosen
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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B.
Best Buy
Best Buy is a major American consumer electronics retail chain known for selling computers, appliances, and entertainment products through large-format stores and online.
-
C.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble is a major American bookselling chain known for its large retail bookstores that offer a wide selection of books, magazines, and related media, often alongside in-store cafés.
-
E.
Michaels Companies
Michaels Companies is a major North American specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, and home décor products.
- 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeec3cc1a88190924125a86f72fd5b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b512440b8c8190ae2048bfcdd565ec |
completed | March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b512f3504c8190be940148a4f726e9 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5172b369c8190956d7c54943225cd |
completed | March 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.