Triple

T5871106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject WLS-TV E130516 entity
Predicate formerOwner P347 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: [WLS-TV, formerOwner, Sears, Roebuck and Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sears, Roebuck and Company
Context triple: [WLS-TV, formerOwner, 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_69c0085047dc8190af24e311edad3c07 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c035f87a4c819092fcfce58d303d61 completed March 22, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b114c53081908ea441b2a15c9ab9 completed March 23, 2026, 3:18 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:56 p.m.