Jelinek
E341570
Jelinek is a surname most prominently associated with W. Craig Jelinek, the longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jelinek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3265013 — 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: Jelinek Context triple: [W. Craig Jelinek, familyName, Jelinek]
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A.
Cornelia Srebnick
Cornelia Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a woman navigating marriage, creativity, and generational tensions in contemporary New York City.
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B.
Zora Vesecká
Zora Vesecká is a Czech individual whose given name is Zora, a common female name in Slavic countries.
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C.
Emilie Schenkl
Emilie Schenkl was an Austrian woman best known as the wife of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose and the mother of their daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff.
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D.
Monika Henreid
Monika Henreid is the daughter of classic Hollywood actor and director Paul Henreid, known for his roles in films such as "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager."
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E.
Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy is a pioneering computer scientist and engineer known for her influential work in robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
- 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: Jelinek Target entity description: Jelinek is a surname most prominently associated with W. Craig Jelinek, the longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
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A.
Cornelia Srebnick
Cornelia Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a woman navigating marriage, creativity, and generational tensions in contemporary New York City.
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B.
Zora Vesecká
Zora Vesecká is a Czech individual whose given name is Zora, a common female name in Slavic countries.
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C.
Emilie Schenkl
Emilie Schenkl was an Austrian woman best known as the wife of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose and the mother of their daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff.
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D.
Monika Henreid
Monika Henreid is the daughter of classic Hollywood actor and director Paul Henreid, known for his roles in films such as "Casablanca" and "Now, Voyager."
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E.
Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Bajcsy is a pioneering computer scientist and engineer known for her influential work in robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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chief executive officer ⓘ family name ⓘ public company ⓘ retail company ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alternativeTransliteration | Jelínek ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfIncorporation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer | Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| hasCEO | W. Craig Jelinek ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | W. Craig Jelinek ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Issaquah, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
retail
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warehouse club ⓘ |
| knownFor | CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| occupation | businessperson ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Austria
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Canada ⓘ Czech Republic ⓘ Germany ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Jelinek Description of subject: Jelinek is a surname most prominently associated with W. Craig Jelinek, the longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.