Hermes (Evri)
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Hermes (now rebranded as Evri) is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company serving both businesses and consumers with nationwide and international shipping services.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hermes | 1 |
| Hermes (Evri) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4362691 — 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: Hermes (Evri) Context triple: [Parcelforce Worldwide, hasCompetitor, Hermes (Evri)]
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A.
Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
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B.
Hermes Pan
Hermes Pan was an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer best known for his innovative, Oscar-winning work on Hollywood musicals, particularly in collaboration with Fred Astaire.
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C.
Ariphron
Ariphron was an Athenian statesman of the 5th century BCE, known primarily as the elder brother of the famous orator Pericles.
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D.
Iasius
Iasius is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified with Iasion, who is associated with Demeter and sometimes regarded as a founder-hero linked to agriculture and mystery rites.
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E.
Apollo Ismenios
Apollo Ismenios is a local Theban form of the Greek god Apollo, venerated especially at the Ismenion sanctuary near the river Ismenus.
- 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: Hermes (Evri) Target entity description: Hermes (now rebranded as Evri) is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company serving both businesses and consumers with nationwide and international shipping services.
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A.
Hermes
Hermes is the fleet-footed Greek god of trade, travel, and communication, who serves as messenger of the Olympian gods and guide of souls to the underworld.
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B.
Hermes Pan
Hermes Pan was an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer best known for his innovative, Oscar-winning work on Hollywood musicals, particularly in collaboration with Fred Astaire.
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C.
Ariphron
Ariphron was an Athenian statesman of the 5th century BCE, known primarily as the elder brother of the famous orator Pericles.
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D.
Iasius
Iasius is a figure in Greek mythology, often identified with Iasion, who is associated with Demeter and sometimes regarded as a founder-hero linked to agriculture and mystery rites.
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E.
Apollo Ismenios
Apollo Ismenios is a local Theban form of the Greek god Apollo, venerated especially at the Ismenion sanctuary near the river Ismenus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
courier company
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parcel delivery company ⓘ |
| basedIn | England ⓘ |
| brandName | Evri ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| customerType |
high-street retailers
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individual senders ⓘ marketplace sellers ⓘ online retailers ⓘ |
| formerName | Hermes UK ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Evri
ⓘ
Hermes UK ⓘ |
| hasFocus | e-commerce parcel delivery ⓘ |
| hasLogoText | Evri ⓘ |
| hasNetwork |
courier network
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parcel shops ⓘ |
| hasRebranding | Hermes UK to Evri ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Leeds ⓘ |
| industry |
courier services
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logistics ⓘ parcel delivery ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| marketPosition | major UK parcel carrier ⓘ |
| offersFeature |
courier collection
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home delivery ⓘ parcel shop pickup ⓘ tracking services ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
business-to-business delivery
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business-to-consumer delivery ⓘ last-mile delivery ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Advent International
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Otto Group ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Great Britain
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Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| serves |
business customers
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consumer customers ⓘ |
| service |
courier services
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e-commerce logistics ⓘ international parcel delivery ⓘ nationwide parcel delivery ⓘ parcel collection services ⓘ parcel drop-off services ⓘ returns handling ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| transportMode | road transport ⓘ |
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: Hermes (Evri) Description of subject: Hermes (now rebranded as Evri) is a major UK-based parcel delivery and courier company serving both businesses and consumers with nationwide and international shipping services.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Parcel Force (as part of Royal Mail Group)
linked to: Hermes (Evri)