Triple

T593509
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sears, Roebuck & Co. E17326 entity
Predicate operatedSubsidiary P9212 FINISHED
Object Sears Canada
Sears Canada was a major Canadian department store chain that operated retail stores, catalog, and online shopping until its closure in 2018.
E76082 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Sears Canada | Statement: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedSubsidiary, Sears Canada]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears Canada
Context triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedSubsidiary, Sears Canada]
  • A. Sears Outlet
    Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sears Holdings Corporation
    Sears Holdings Corporation was an American retail holding company formed in 2005 that became the parent of Sears and Kmart before ultimately declining into bankruptcy.
  • D. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • E. Loblaws supermarket
    Loblaws supermarket is a major Canadian grocery store chain known for its large-format supermarkets and wide selection of food and household products.
  • 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: Sears Canada
Triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedSubsidiary, Sears Canada]
Generated description
Sears Canada was a major Canadian department store chain that operated retail stores, catalog, and online shopping until its closure in 2018.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sears Canada
Target entity description: Sears Canada was a major Canadian department store chain that operated retail stores, catalog, and online shopping until its closure in 2018.
  • A. Sears Outlet
    Sears Outlet was a chain of discount retail stores offering overstocked, discontinued, and refurbished merchandise from Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sears Holdings Corporation
    Sears Holdings Corporation was an American retail holding company formed in 2005 that became the parent of Sears and Kmart before ultimately declining into bankruptcy.
  • D. Sears Grand
    Sears Grand was a big-box retail store format developed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. that combined traditional department store merchandise with a broader selection of general goods in a single large-format location.
  • E. Loblaws supermarket
    Loblaws supermarket is a major Canadian grocery store chain known for its large-format supermarkets and wide selection of food and household products.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: operatedSubsidiary
Context triple: [Sears, Roebuck & Co., operatedSubsidiary, Sears Canada]
  • A. notableSubsidiary chosen
    Indicates that one entity is a subsidiary of another and is particularly significant or prominent among that parent’s subsidiaries.
  • B. subsidiaryUnit
    Indicates that one organizational unit functions as a subordinate or dependent division of another, higher-level unit.
  • C. operatedByCompanyHeadquarteredIn
    Indicates that an entity is operated by a company whose headquarters is located in a specified place.
  • D. operatedAs
    Indicates that an entity functioned or was used in the capacity, role, or identity of another entity for some period of time.
  • E. operatesBy
    Indicates that an entity performs its function, action, or process through the use or application of another entity (e.g., a method, mechanism, or principle).
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49bd15c5881909b59ed4c88687e7b completed March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a529220bc4819087e9de129139b6ef completed March 2, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a52a081d0881909b4d5f0a699509aa completed March 2, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a52de03864819092878b952c053c15 completed March 2, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a494cd7d3c8190af008acf34a2293b completed March 1, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.