Triple

T9535700
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Filene's E230008 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: [Filene'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: [Filene's, acquiredBy, May Department Stores Company]
  • 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.).
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. J. C. Penney
    J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca847b1b3081908f72bc932c17cc41 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98cd6a5c8190835c0910ec38ede3 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d15275e4c08190a8aeb02caff052d8 completed April 4, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.