Costco Wholesale Corporation
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Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T91706 — 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: Costco Wholesale Corporation Context triple: [Tony James, boardMemberOf, Costco Wholesale Corporation]
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A.
Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
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B.
Starbucks
Starbucks is a global coffeehouse chain and coffee roastery brand known for its specialty coffee drinks and widespread presence in cities around the world.
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C.
Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation was a major American media and marketing company best known for its portfolio of lifestyle magazines and television broadcasting assets.
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D.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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E.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
- 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: Costco Wholesale Corporation Target entity description: Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
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A.
Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
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B.
Starbucks
Starbucks is a global coffeehouse chain and coffee roastery brand known for its specialty coffee drinks and widespread presence in cities around the world.
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C.
Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation was a major American media and marketing company best known for its portfolio of lifestyle magazines and television broadcasting assets.
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D.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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E.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
multinational corporation
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public company ⓘ retail company ⓘ warehouse club ⓘ |
| brand | Kirkland Signature ⓘ |
| businessModel | membership-based warehouse club ⓘ |
| competitor |
BJ's Wholesale Club
ⓘ
Sam's Club ⓘ |
| coreProduct |
appliances
ⓘ
bulk consumer goods ⓘ clothing ⓘ electronics ⓘ furniture ⓘ gasoline ⓘ groceries ⓘ pharmacy products ⓘ |
| coreService |
optical services
ⓘ
photo printing services ⓘ tire services ⓘ travel services ⓘ |
| countryOfIncorporation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employerOf |
James Sinegal
ⓘ
Ron Vachris ⓘ W. Craig Jelinek ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | Kirkland, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
James Sinegal
ⓘ
Jeffrey Brotman ⓘ |
| foundingLocation | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Costco Wholesale Corporation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Costco Wholesale Australia Pty Ltd.
Costco Wholesale Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
Costco Wholesale Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Costco Wholesale Japan Ltd.
Costco Wholesale Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Costco Wholesale Mexico
Costco Wholesale Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Costco Wholesale UK Ltd.
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| headquartersLocation | Issaquah, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| inception | 1983 ⓘ |
| industry |
retail
ⓘ
warehouse club industry ⓘ wholesale ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| membershipRequired | yes ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
bulk sales at discounted prices
ⓘ
limited product selection per category ⓘ private-label focus with Kirkland Signature ⓘ |
| operatesInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ China ⓘ France ⓘ Iceland ⓘ Japan ⓘ Mexico ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Spain ⓘ Formosa ⓘ
surface form:
Taiwan
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| pricingStrategy | low-margin high-volume ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| storeFormat | large-scale warehouse store ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | COST ⓘ |
| website | https://www.costco.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: Costco Wholesale Corporation Description of subject: Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Costco