Office Depot
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Office Depot is a major American office supply retail chain that sells stationery, furniture, technology products, and business services to consumers and companies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Office Depot canonical | 7 |
| Office Depot, Inc. | 2 |
| Office Depot (as depicted in The Office) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3868037 — 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: Office Depot Context triple: [Staples Inc., hasCompetitor, Office Depot]
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A.
Office Depot Center
Office Depot Center was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Sunrise, Florida, best known as the longtime home venue of the NHL’s Florida Panthers under a former naming-rights deal.
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B.
Staples Inc.
Staples Inc. is a major American office supply retail company known for its chain of stores and business-to-business services.
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C.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Michaels Companies
Michaels Companies is a major North American specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, and home décor products.
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E.
The Home Depot
The Home Depot is a major American home improvement retail chain known for its large warehouse-style stores selling tools, construction products, and services to both DIY customers and professionals.
- 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: Office Depot Target entity description: Office Depot is a major American office supply retail chain that sells stationery, furniture, technology products, and business services to consumers and companies.
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A.
Office Depot Center
Office Depot Center was a multi-purpose indoor arena in Sunrise, Florida, best known as the longtime home venue of the NHL’s Florida Panthers under a former naming-rights deal.
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B.
Staples Inc.
Staples Inc. is a major American office supply retail company known for its chain of stores and business-to-business services.
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C.
Michaels
Michaels is the surname of Lorne Michaels, the influential Canadian-American television producer and creator of "Saturday Night Live."
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D.
Michaels Companies
Michaels Companies is a major North American specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, and home décor products.
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E.
The Home Depot
The Home Depot is a major American home improvement retail chain known for its large warehouse-style stores selling tools, construction products, and services to both DIY customers and professionals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
office supply retail chain
ⓘ
public company ⓘ retail company ⓘ |
| brand | Office Depot self-link ⓘ |
| competitor |
OfficeMax
ⓘ
Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy |
F. Patrick Sher
ⓘ
Jack Kopkin ⓘ Stephen Dougherty ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
|
| hasColor |
red
ⓘ
white ⓘ |
| hasLogo | Office Depot logo ⓘ |
| hasRetailFormat |
brick-and-mortar stores
ⓘ
online store ⓘ |
| hasSlogan | Taking Care of Business ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Boca Raton, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1986 ⓘ |
| industry |
business services
ⓘ
office supplies retail ⓘ technology products retail ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Florida ⓘ |
| offers |
office design services
ⓘ
print and copy services ⓘ tech support services ⓘ |
| operatesIn | North America ⓘ |
| owns |
OfficeMax
ⓘ
surface form:
OfficeMax brand
|
| parentOrganization | The ODP Corporation ⓘ |
| productOrService |
business services
ⓘ
copying services ⓘ office furniture ⓘ office supplies ⓘ printing services ⓘ shipping services ⓘ stationery ⓘ technology products ⓘ |
| sells |
business software
ⓘ
computers ⓘ ink and toner ⓘ paper products ⓘ printers ⓘ school supplies ⓘ |
| serves |
businesses
ⓘ
consumers ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | ODP ⓘ |
| website | https://www.officedepot.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: Office Depot Description of subject: Office Depot is a major American office supply retail chain that sells stationery, furniture, technology products, and business services to consumers and companies.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Office Depot (as depicted in The Office)
this entity surface form:
Office Depot, Inc.
this entity surface form:
Office Depot, Inc.