Triple

T361421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Costco Wholesale Corporation E7861 entity
Predicate competitor P1375 FINISHED
Object Sam's Club
Sam's Club is an American chain of membership-only warehouse clubs owned by Walmart, offering bulk goods and discounted merchandise similar to other wholesale retailers.
E45777 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: Sam's Club | Statement: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, competitor, Sam's Club]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam's Club
Context triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, competitor, Sam's Club]
  • A. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • B. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • C. Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward was a pioneering American mail-order and department store retailer that became one of the largest and most influential retail chains in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
  • E. Nordstrom
    Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Sam's Club
Triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, competitor, Sam's Club]
Generated description
Sam's Club is an American chain of membership-only warehouse clubs owned by Walmart, offering bulk goods and discounted merchandise similar to other wholesale retailers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam's Club
Target entity description: Sam's Club is an American chain of membership-only warehouse clubs owned by Walmart, offering bulk goods and discounted merchandise similar to other wholesale retailers.
  • A. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • B. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • C. Montgomery Ward
    Montgomery Ward was a pioneering American mail-order and department store retailer that became one of the largest and most influential retail chains in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  • D. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
  • E. Nordstrom
    Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebce64c88190a0a8edcc7095f78b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e57a56e081909004fcd7e15f457c completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e5e50b848190ab5d036719048df8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e63c749c8190b5bfd85b7ccafa9c completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.