Shipt
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Shipt is a same-day delivery and personal shopping service that partners with retailers to deliver groceries and household essentials to customers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shipt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7422492 — 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: Shipt Context triple: [Target Corporation, acquired, Shipt]
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A.
Instacart
Instacart is a U.S.-based grocery delivery and pickup service that partners with local retailers to let customers order groceries online for same-day fulfillment.
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B.
Postmates
Postmates is an on-demand delivery service platform that connects users with local couriers to deliver food, groceries, and other goods from nearby merchants.
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C.
GrabExpress
GrabExpress is Grab’s on-demand parcel and document delivery service operating across various Southeast Asian cities.
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D.
Grubhub
Grubhub is a major U.S.-based online food ordering and delivery platform that connects diners with local restaurants through its website and mobile app.
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E.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company that partners with restaurants and couriers to deliver meals to customers via its app and website.
- 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: Shipt Target entity description: Shipt is a same-day delivery and personal shopping service that partners with retailers to deliver groceries and household essentials to customers.
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A.
Instacart
Instacart is a U.S.-based grocery delivery and pickup service that partners with local retailers to let customers order groceries online for same-day fulfillment.
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B.
Postmates
Postmates is an on-demand delivery service platform that connects users with local couriers to deliver food, groceries, and other goods from nearby merchants.
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C.
GrabExpress
GrabExpress is Grab’s on-demand parcel and document delivery service operating across various Southeast Asian cities.
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D.
Grubhub
Grubhub is a major U.S.-based online food ordering and delivery platform that connects diners with local restaurants through its website and mobile app.
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E.
Deliveroo
Deliveroo is a British online food delivery company that partners with restaurants and couriers to deliver meals to customers via its app and website.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
on-demand delivery service ⓘ online marketplace ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Target Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmountUSD | 550000000 ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| allows | scheduled deliveries ⓘ |
| availableOn |
Android
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
iOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel |
membership-based
ⓘ
subscription ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employs | personal shoppers ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Bill Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | Bill Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModelComponent |
annual membership fee
ⓘ
per-order fees ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Birmingham, Alabama, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2014 ⓘ |
| industry |
e-commerce
ⓘ
grocery delivery ⓘ logistics ⓘ same-day delivery ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | 2014 ⓘ |
| notablePartner |
CVS (in some markets)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Costco (in some markets) NERFINISHED ⓘ Target NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offers |
grocery delivery
ⓘ
household essentials delivery ⓘ personal shopping ⓘ same-day delivery ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Target Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partnersWith |
big-box retailers
ⓘ
grocery stores ⓘ retailers ⓘ |
| platform |
mobile app
ⓘ
website ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| serviceType |
on-demand
ⓘ
same-day ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
in-app tipping
ⓘ
real-time order tracking ⓘ shopping preferences ⓘ |
| targetAudience | consumers ⓘ |
| uses | independent contractors as shoppers ⓘ |
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: Shipt Description of subject: Shipt is a same-day delivery and personal shopping service that partners with retailers to deliver groceries and household essentials to customers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.