Triple
T14911960
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hecht's |
E371282
|
entity |
| Predicate | acquiredBy |
P347
|
FINISHED |
| Object | May Department Stores Company |
E381670
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: May Department Stores Company | Statement: [Hecht's, acquiredBy, May Department Stores Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: May Department Stores Company Context triple: [Hecht's, acquiredBy, May Department Stores Company]
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A.
May Department Stores Company
chosen
May Department Stores Company was a major American department store holding company that operated numerous regional chains before being acquired by Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s, Inc.).
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B.
F. W. Woolworth Company
The F. W. Woolworth Company was a pioneering American retail chain that popularized the five-and-dime store concept and helped shape modern mass-market merchandising.
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C.
Dayton-Hudson Corporation
Dayton-Hudson Corporation was a major American retail company that evolved into Target Corporation, known for operating prominent department and discount store chains.
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D.
May Company Wilshire
May Company Wilshire is a historic Streamline Moderne department store building in Los Angeles, renowned for its iconic gold-tiled cylinder and later adaptation into part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures complex.
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E.
J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69d85cc7ea3481908228b5acb7d06f12 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ded61d75008190b6f9a1a38137836f |
completed | April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fe7e86ce888190b03056db39438701 |
completed | May 9, 2026, 12:23 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:26 a.m.