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]
  • A. Furniture City
    Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • A. Furniture City
    Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
  • 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.