Sephora
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Sephora is a global beauty retail chain known for its wide selection of cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance brands and its experiential, try-before-you-buy store concept.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sephora canonical | 6 |
| Sephora Collection | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3081344 — 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: Sephora Context triple: [Bernard Arnault, businessInterest, Sephora]
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A.
Sephora
Sephora is a character in the 1956 biblical epic film "The Ten Commandments," depicted as Moses' Midianite wife Zipporah.
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B.
Bath & Body Works
Bath & Body Works is a major American retail chain specializing in scented personal care products, candles, and home fragrances, known for its mall-based stores and seasonal collections.
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C.
Kiehl's
Kiehl's is an American skincare and cosmetics brand known for its apothecary-style stores and science-driven formulations.
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D.
Parfumerie
Parfumerie is a 1937 romantic play by Hungarian writer Miklós László about two feuding co-workers who are unknowingly anonymous pen-pal lovers, which has inspired several film adaptations.
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E.
Lancôme
Lancôme is a French luxury cosmetics and skincare brand renowned for its high-end perfumes, makeup, and beauty products.
- 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: Sephora Target entity description: Sephora is a global beauty retail chain known for its wide selection of cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance brands and its experiential, try-before-you-buy store concept.
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A.
Sephora
Sephora is a character in the 1956 biblical epic film "The Ten Commandments," depicted as Moses' Midianite wife Zipporah.
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B.
Bath & Body Works
Bath & Body Works is a major American retail chain specializing in scented personal care products, candles, and home fragrances, known for its mall-based stores and seasonal collections.
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C.
Kiehl's
Kiehl's is an American skincare and cosmetics brand known for its apothecary-style stores and science-driven formulations.
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D.
Parfumerie
Parfumerie is a 1937 romantic play by Hungarian writer Miklós László about two feuding co-workers who are unknowingly anonymous pen-pal lovers, which has inspired several film adaptations.
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E.
Lancôme
Lancôme is a French luxury cosmetics and skincare brand renowned for its high-end perfumes, makeup, and beauty products.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
beauty retailer
ⓘ
cosmetics retailer ⓘ multinational company ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Dominique Mandonnaud ⓘ |
| foundingLocation |
Limoges
ⓘ
surface form:
Limoges, France
|
| hasLoyaltyProgram | Beauty Insider ⓘ |
| hasLoyaltyTier |
Beauty Insider
ⓘ
surface form:
Beauty Insider Insider
Beauty Insider Rouge ⓘ Beauty Insider VIB ⓘ |
| hasMobileApp | Sephora app ⓘ |
| hasPrivateLabelBrand |
Sephora
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sephora Collection
|
| hasRetailFormat |
online store
ⓘ
specialty retail stores ⓘ |
| hasStoreConcept |
experiential retail
ⓘ
self-service product testing ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France ⓘ |
| inception | 1969 ⓘ |
| industry |
beauty
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cosmetics ⓘ fragrance ⓘ skincare ⓘ |
| knownFor |
in-store beauty services
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open-sell merchandising format ⓘ try-before-you-buy concept ⓘ wide selection of brands ⓘ |
| offersProductType |
bath and body products
ⓘ
beauty tools ⓘ fragrance ⓘ haircare ⓘ makeup ⓘ skincare ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| ownedBy | LVMH ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | LVMH ⓘ |
| providesService |
beauty classes
ⓘ
makeup consultations ⓘ skincare consultations ⓘ |
| sells |
Sephora Collection products
ⓘ
prestige beauty brands ⓘ |
| slogan | Let’s Beauty Together ⓘ |
| usesBusinessModel | omnichannel retail ⓘ |
| website | https://www.sephora.com ⓘ |
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: Sephora Description of subject: Sephora is a global beauty retail chain known for its wide selection of cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance brands and its experiential, try-before-you-buy store concept.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sephora Collection