Teavana
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Teavana is a specialty tea retailer and brand known for its loose-leaf teas, tea accessories, and tea-centric beverages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teavana canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T451549 — 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: Teavana Context triple: [Starbucks, hasSubsidiary, Teavana]
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A.
Lovefeast
Lovefeast is a Christian communal meal and worship service, especially associated with Moravian and some Methodist traditions, that emphasizes fellowship, shared food, and spiritual unity rather than the sacramental elements of Holy Communion.
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B.
ECAFE
ECAFE is the former name (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) of the United Nations regional body now known as the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), which promotes economic and social development in the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Starbucks
Starbucks is a global coffeehouse chain and coffee roastery brand known for its specialty coffee drinks and widespread presence in cities around the world.
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D.
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Kenny Rogers Roasters is a restaurant chain known for its wood-fired rotisserie chicken and casual dining concept, originally co-founded by country singer Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Café Sebastienne
Café Sebastienne is the on-site restaurant at Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, known for its art-filled dining space and contemporary American cuisine.
- 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: Teavana Target entity description: Teavana is a specialty tea retailer and brand known for its loose-leaf teas, tea accessories, and tea-centric beverages.
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A.
Lovefeast
Lovefeast is a Christian communal meal and worship service, especially associated with Moravian and some Methodist traditions, that emphasizes fellowship, shared food, and spiritual unity rather than the sacramental elements of Holy Communion.
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B.
ECAFE
ECAFE is the former name (Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East) of the United Nations regional body now known as the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), which promotes economic and social development in the Asia-Pacific region.
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C.
Starbucks
Starbucks is a global coffeehouse chain and coffee roastery brand known for its specialty coffee drinks and widespread presence in cities around the world.
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D.
Kenny Rogers Roasters
Kenny Rogers Roasters is a restaurant chain known for its wood-fired rotisserie chicken and casual dining concept, originally co-founded by country singer Kenny Rogers.
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E.
Café Sebastienne
Café Sebastienne is the on-site restaurant at Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, known for its art-filled dining space and contemporary American cuisine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brand
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subsidiary ⓘ tea retailer ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Starbucks ⓘ |
| acquisitionAmount | 620 million US dollars ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2012 ⓘ |
| brandOf | Starbucks ⓘ |
| brandStatus | discontinued retail stores in North America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| formerHeadquartersLocation |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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linked to:
Atlanta
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| foundedBy |
Andrew Mack
ⓘ
Nancy Mack ⓘ |
| hasProductCategory |
black tea
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green tea ⓘ herbal tea ⓘ oolong tea ⓘ white tea ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Atlanta
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| industry |
retail
ⓘ
tea industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
flavored tea blends
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loose-leaf teas ⓘ tea accessories ⓘ tea-centric beverages ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Starbucks ⓘ |
| productType |
loose-leaf tea
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tea accessories ⓘ tea beverages ⓘ |
| soldAt | Starbucks stores ⓘ |
| soldIn |
Argentina
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Bahrain ⓘ Brazil ⓘ Canada ⓘ Chile ⓘ China ⓘ Indonesia ⓘ Japan ⓘ Kuwait ⓘ Mexico ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Oman ⓘ Philippines ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ South Korea ⓘ Thailand ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| storeClosureAnnouncementDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| storeType | specialty tea shop ⓘ |
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: Teavana Description of subject: Teavana is a specialty tea retailer and brand known for its loose-leaf teas, tea accessories, and tea-centric beverages.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.