Triple

T4591821
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Warren Sears E103507 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Sears, Roebuck and Company 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 Company | Statement: [Richard Warren Sears, notableWork, Sears, Roebuck and Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sears, Roebuck and Company
Context triple: [Richard Warren Sears, notableWork, Sears, Roebuck and Company]
  • 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. Kmart Corporation
    Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • E. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • 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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd592520ec8190b1bd4cb4d9b94c94 completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa3f792881908f7d0bc1f09d517e completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.