Triple

T593486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sears, Roebuck & Co. E17326 entity
Predicate acquiredBy P347 FINISHED
Object Kmart Corporation
Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
E74427 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: Kmart Corporation | Statement: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., acquiredBy, Kmart Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kmart Corporation
Context triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., acquiredBy, Kmart Corporation]
  • A. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • B. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    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.
  • C. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • D. Kroger
    Kroger is one of the largest supermarket and retail grocery chains in the United States, operating thousands of stores under various banners nationwide.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Kmart Corporation
Triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., acquiredBy, Kmart Corporation]
Generated description
Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kmart Corporation
Target entity description: Kmart Corporation is a U.S.-based discount retail chain that became part of Sears Holdings after merging with Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • A. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • B. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    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.
  • C. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • D. Kroger
    Kroger is one of the largest supermarket and retail grocery chains in the United States, operating thousands of stores under various banners nationwide.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49bd15c5881909b59ed4c88687e7b completed March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a518c61744819090ccc037d61a61b1 completed March 2, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5197869fc8190b3e11f46f4eea7b9 completed March 2, 2026, 5 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a519e6319c81908d49076dfe2cd963 completed March 2, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.