WBA
E302753
WBA is the stock ticker symbol for Walgreens Boots Alliance, a major global pharmacy and retail health company.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2839539 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WBA Context triple: [Walgreens Boots Alliance, tickerSymbol, WBA]
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A.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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B.
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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C.
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council is one of the major international professional boxing organizations, known for sanctioning world championship bouts and establishing rules and rankings in the sport.
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D.
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is one of the four major professional boxing sanctioning bodies, responsible for organizing world championship bouts and ranking fighters across multiple weight divisions.
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E.
International Boxing Federation
The International Boxing Federation is a major global sanctioning body that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: WBA Target entity description: WBA is the stock ticker symbol for Walgreens Boots Alliance, a major global pharmacy and retail health company.
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A.
WBA
WBA is a professional English football club based in West Bromwich that competes in the English football league system and is traditionally known as West Bromwich Albion.
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B.
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is one of the major international sanctioning bodies that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
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C.
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council is one of the major international professional boxing organizations, known for sanctioning world championship bouts and establishing rules and rankings in the sport.
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D.
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization (WBO) is one of the four major professional boxing sanctioning bodies, responsible for organizing world championship bouts and ranking fighters across multiple weight divisions.
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E.
International Boxing Federation
The International Boxing Federation is a major global sanctioning body that organizes and regulates professional boxing world championship bouts across multiple weight divisions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| countryOfExchange |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| currency | US dollar ⓘ |
| exchangeTickerFormat | WBA self-link ⓘ |
| hasCorporateAction | formed via merger of Walgreens and Alliance Boots in 2014 ⓘ |
| hasCorporateGovernanceStructure | board of directors ⓘ |
| hasCorporateWebsite | https://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com/ ⓘ |
| hasCUSIP | 931427108 ⓘ |
| hasDividendPolicy | pays cash dividends (subject to change) ⓘ |
| hasFilingForm |
Form 10-K
ⓘ
Form 10-Q ⓘ Form 8-K ⓘ |
| hasISIN | US9314271084 ⓘ |
| hasLotSize | 1 share ⓘ |
| hasMicCode | XNGS ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryInstrumentID |
WBA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
WBA:US
|
| hasReportingStandard | US GAAP ⓘ |
| hasSEDOL | BQRNRD8 ⓘ |
| hasShareType | voting shares ⓘ |
| hasTradingHoursTimeZone | US Eastern Time ⓘ |
| hasUnderlyingBrand |
Boots
ⓘ
Duane Reade ⓘ Walgreens Boots Alliance ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreens
|
| hasUnderlyingCompanyCEO | Tim Wentworth (subject to change) ⓘ |
| isElectronicTradingEligible | yes ⓘ |
| isIncludedInESGIndices | yes (various, subject to change) ⓘ |
| listedOn |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
Nasdaq Global Select Market ⓘ |
| market | secondary equity market ⓘ |
| primaryListing |
NASDAQ
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq
|
| regulatoryAuthority |
Securities and Exchange Commission
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
|
| represents |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
|
| securityType | common stock ⓘ |
| settlementCurrency | USD ⓘ |
| tradedAs |
WBA
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
WBA.OQ
|
| underlyingCompanyBusinessDescription | global pharmacy and retail health company ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyFormerName |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreen Co.
|
| underlyingCompanyGICSSubIndustry | Drug Retail ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyHeadquarters |
Deerfield, Illinois
ⓘ
surface form:
Deerfield, Illinois, United States
|
| underlyingCompanyIncorporationJurisdiction |
Delaware
ⓘ
surface form:
Delaware, United States
|
| underlyingCompanyIndustry |
healthcare services
ⓘ
pharmacy retail ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyLegalName |
Walgreens Boots Alliance
ⓘ
surface form:
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.
|
| underlyingCompanySectorClassification | Health Care ⓘ |
| underlyingCompanyStockIndexMembership |
NASDAQ-100 Index
ⓘ
surface form:
Nasdaq-100 (historical/subject to change)
S&P 500 Index ⓘ
surface form:
S&P 500 (historical/subject to change)
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: WBA Description of subject: WBA is the stock ticker symbol for Walgreens Boots Alliance, a major global pharmacy and retail health company.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WBA:US