Triple

T593501
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sears, Roebuck & Co. E17326 entity
Predicate operatedStoreFormat P4952 FINISHED
Object Sears Outlet
Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
E75767 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: Sears Outlet | Statement: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedStoreFormat, Sears Outlet]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears Outlet
Context triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedStoreFormat, Sears Outlet]
  • A. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. Sam's Club
    Sam's Club is an American chain of membership-only warehouse clubs owned by Walmart, offering bulk goods and discounted merchandise similar to other wholesale retailers.
  • 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. 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: Sears Outlet
Triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedStoreFormat, Sears Outlet]
Generated description
Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears Outlet
Target entity description: Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • A. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • 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. 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.
  • D. Sam's Club
    Sam's Club is an American chain of membership-only warehouse clubs owned by Walmart, offering bulk goods and discounted merchandise similar to other wholesale retailers.
  • 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. 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_69a49d2a5f5481908bb9a71ff0f534d4 completed March 1, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5238759c88190b1a960291c758447 completed March 2, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a524233d34819092c15fdc9d6b6411 completed March 2, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a524a0b00c8190951d1e279226ef50 completed March 2, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.