Triple

T3868017
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Staples Inc. E91908 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object SPLS
SPLS is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Staples Inc., a major American office supplies retail company.
 E396065 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: SPLS | Statement: [Staples Inc., tickerSymbol, SPLS]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: SPLS
Context triple: [Staples Inc., tickerSymbol, SPLS]
  • A. PLS
    PLS is the IATA airport code for Providenciales International Airport, the main air gateway to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  • B. SPL
    SPL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Scottish Premier League, the former top professional football division in Scotland.
  • C. PLP
    PLP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Parliamentary Labour Party, the grouping of Labour Members of Parliament in the UK House of Commons.
  • D. SPLASH
    SPLASH is a major annual ACM conference focused on programming languages, software engineering, and related systems research.
  • E. SAS
    SAS is an elite special forces unit of the British Army renowned for its covert operations, counterterrorism expertise, and rigorous selection process.
  • 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: SPLS
Triple: [Staples Inc., tickerSymbol, SPLS]
Generated description
SPLS is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Staples Inc., a major American office supplies retail company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: SPLS
Target entity description: SPLS is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Staples Inc., a major American office supplies retail company.
  • A. PLS
    PLS is the IATA airport code for Providenciales International Airport, the main air gateway to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
  • B. SPL
    SPL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Scottish Premier League, the former top professional football division in Scotland.
  • C. PLP
    PLP is the commonly used abbreviation for the Parliamentary Labour Party, the grouping of Labour Members of Parliament in the UK House of Commons.
  • D. SPLASH
    SPLASH is a major annual ACM conference focused on programming languages, software engineering, and related systems research.
  • E. SAS
    SAS is an elite special forces unit of the British Army renowned for its covert operations, counterterrorism expertise, and rigorous selection process.
  • 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_69aed9645f348190a9868e7cef56ab7e completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeec3cc1a88190924125a86f72fd5b completed March 9, 2026, 3:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b512440b8c8190ae2048bfcdd565ec completed March 14, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b512f3504c8190be940148a4f726e9 completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5172b369c8190956d7c54943225cd completed March 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:19 p.m.