The Home Depot
E14063
The Home Depot is a major American home improvement retail chain known for its large warehouse-style stores selling tools, construction products, and services to both DIY customers and professionals.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Home Depot canonical | 28 |
| Home Depot | 4 |
| The Home Depot (through founder) | 1 |
| The Home Depot, Inc. | 1 |
| home depot | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T128612 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Home Depot Context triple: [Atlanta, isHeadquartersOf, The Home Depot]
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A.
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.
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B.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
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C.
Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
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D.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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E.
American Appliance Company
American Appliance Company was the original name of the U.S. technology and defense contractor later known as Raytheon Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Home Depot Target entity description: The Home Depot is a major American home improvement retail chain known for its large warehouse-style stores selling tools, construction products, and services to both DIY customers and professionals.
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A.
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.
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B.
Furniture City
Furniture City is a nickname for Grand Rapids, Michigan, reflecting its historic prominence as a major center of American furniture manufacturing.
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C.
Nordstrom
Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
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D.
Amazon
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company best known for its vast online marketplace, cloud computing services through AWS, and significant influence on global retail and logistics.
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E.
American Appliance Company
American Appliance Company was the original name of the U.S. technology and defense contractor later known as Raytheon Company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
big-box retailer
ⓘ
home improvement retail chain ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| brandSlogan | How Doers Get More Done ⓘ |
| competitor | Lowe's ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
Arthur Blank
ⓘ
Bernard Marcus ⓘ Pat Farrah ⓘ Ron Brill ⓘ |
| foundedInCity | Atlanta ⓘ |
| foundedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedInState | Georgia ⓘ |
| hasColor | orange ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.homedepot.com ⓘ |
| headquartersCity | Atlanta ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| headquartersLocation |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
|
| headquartersState | Georgia ⓘ |
| inception | 1978 ⓘ |
| industry |
DIY supplies
ⓘ
construction products ⓘ home improvement ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| logoText | The Home Depot ⓘ |
| offers |
installation services
ⓘ
tool rental services ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Canada
ⓘ
Mexico ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| sells |
appliances
ⓘ
building materials ⓘ construction products ⓘ electrical supplies ⓘ flooring ⓘ garden supplies ⓘ hardware ⓘ home improvement products ⓘ lumber ⓘ paint ⓘ plumbing supplies ⓘ tools ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| storeFormat | warehouse-style stores ⓘ |
| targetCustomer |
DIY customers
ⓘ
professional contractors ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | HD ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Home Depot Description of subject: The Home Depot is a major American home improvement retail chain known for its large warehouse-style stores selling tools, construction products, and services to both DIY customers and professionals.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Home Depot Center, Carson, California, United States
subject linked to:
Home Depot Center, Carson, California, United States
linked to: The Home Depot
linked to: The Home Depot
subject linked to:
Blank
linked to: The Home Depot
linked to: The Home Depot
linked to: The Home Depot
linked to: The Home Depot
linked to: The Home Depot