Triple
T638805
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Berkshire Hathaway |
E16684
|
entity |
| Predicate | owns |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Nebraska Furniture Mart
Nebraska Furniture Mart is a large American home furnishings retailer known for its massive showrooms and wide selection of furniture, appliances, electronics, and home décor.
|
E79841
|
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: Nebraska Furniture Mart | Statement: [Berkshire Hathaway, owns, Nebraska Furniture Mart]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nebraska Furniture Mart Context triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, owns, Nebraska Furniture Mart]
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A.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
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B.
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.
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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.
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D.
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
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E.
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.
- 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: Nebraska Furniture Mart Triple: [Berkshire Hathaway, owns, Nebraska Furniture Mart]
Generated description
Nebraska Furniture Mart is a large American home furnishings retailer known for its massive showrooms and wide selection of furniture, appliances, electronics, and home décor.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nebraska Furniture Mart Target entity description: Nebraska Furniture Mart is a large American home furnishings retailer known for its massive showrooms and wide selection of furniture, appliances, electronics, and home décor.
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A.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
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B.
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.
-
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.
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
-
E.
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.
- 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49f00260081909d1a679182e23d10 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a574076b30819090f086b42696bb35 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 11:27 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a5748d5a4c8190b4f8fcbbae972b88 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 11:29 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a574fb37348190b0979dad87e79e53 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 11:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.