SPLS
E396065
SPLS is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Staples Inc., a major American office supplies retail company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SPLS canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3868017 — 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: SPLS Context triple: [Staples Inc., tickerSymbol, SPLS]
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A.
PLS
PLS is the IATA airport code for Providenciales International Airport, the main air gateway to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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B.
SPL
SPL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Scottish Premier League, the former top professional football division in Scotland.
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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.
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D.
SPLASH
SPLASH is a major annual ACM conference focused on programming languages, software engineering, and related systems research.
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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.
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.
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A.
PLS
PLS is the IATA airport code for Providenciales International Airport, the main air gateway to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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B.
SPL
SPL is the commonly used abbreviation for the Scottish Premier League, the former top professional football division in Scotland.
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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.
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D.
SPLASH
SPLASH is a major annual ACM conference focused on programming languages, software engineering, and related systems research.
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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
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
business-to-business services
ⓘ
retail company ⓘ |
| classification | equity security ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| currency |
USD
ⓘ
linked to:
US dollar
|
| exchangeCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerTickerFor | Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| headquarteredIssuerLocation |
Framingham, Massachusetts
ⓘ
linked to:
Framingham
|
| identifierType | ticker symbol ⓘ |
| industry | office supplies retail ⓘ |
| issuer | Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| issuerBusinessModel |
business services
ⓘ
e-commerce ⓘ retail stores ⓘ |
| issuerCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| issuerFoundedAs | Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| issuerIndustry | office supplies ⓘ |
| market |
NASDAQ Global Select Market
ⓘ
linked to:
Nasdaq Global Select Market
|
| notation | SPLS ⓘ |
| refersTo | Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| representsOwnershipIn | Staples Inc. ⓘ |
| sector | consumer services ⓘ |
| securityType | common stock ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerStatus | delisted ⓘ |
| tradedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| usedFor | public trading of Staples Inc. shares ⓘ |
| usedIn |
financial markets
ⓘ
stock trading ⓘ |
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: SPLS Description of subject: SPLS is the former NASDAQ stock ticker symbol for Staples Inc., a major American office supplies retail company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.