COST
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COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| COST canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T361382 — 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: COST Context triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, tickerSymbol, COST]
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A.
CST
CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
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B.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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C.
Tarifit
Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
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D.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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E.
CREST
CREST is the UK’s central securities depository and electronic settlement system used to hold and settle trades in shares and other securities.
- 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: COST Target entity description: COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
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A.
CST
CST is the time zone used throughout mainland China, eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+8).
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B.
COT
COT is the standard time observed in Colombia, corresponding to UTC−05:00 without daylight saving time.
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C.
Tarifit
Tarifit is a Northern Berber language spoken primarily by the Riffian people in the Rif region of northern Morocco.
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D.
The Price
The Price is a 1968 play by American dramatist Arthur Miller that explores family conflict, memory, and the cost of choices through the story of two estranged brothers dividing their late father's possessions.
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E.
CREST
CREST is the UK’s central securities depository and electronic settlement system used to hold and settle trades in shares and other securities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
ⓘ
retail company ⓘ stock ticker symbol ⓘ warehouse club ⓘ |
| businessModel | membership-based warehouse retail chain ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
James Sinegal
ⓘ
Jeffrey Brotman ⓘ Sol Price ⓘ |
| foundedInCity |
Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
|
| foundedInYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| hasMembershipType |
Business membership
ⓘ
Executive membership ⓘ Gold Star membership ⓘ |
| hasPrivateLabelBrand | Kirkland Signature ⓘ |
| hasStoreFormat | large warehouse club stores ⓘ |
| hasStorePresenceIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ China ⓘ France ⓘ Iceland ⓘ Japan ⓘ Mexico ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Spain ⓘ Sweden ⓘ Taiwan ⓘ
linked to:
Taiwan, Province of China
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasSubsidiary | Kirkland Signature ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Issaquah, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| industry |
retail
ⓘ
warehouse clubs and supercenters ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bulk product sales
ⓘ
limited selection of SKUs ⓘ low prices ⓘ membership-only model ⓘ |
| listedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| membershipRequiredFor | warehouse shopping access ⓘ |
| offersProductCategory |
appliances
ⓘ
clothing ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ furniture ⓘ groceries ⓘ health and beauty products ⓘ |
| offersService |
optical services
ⓘ
pharmacy services ⓘ photo printing services ⓘ travel services ⓘ |
| predecessor | Price Club ⓘ |
| represents | Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| stockTicker | COST ⓘ |
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: COST Description of subject: COST is the stock ticker symbol for Costco Wholesale Corporation, a major American membership-based warehouse retail chain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
COST