W. Craig Jelinek
E68504
W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| W. Craig Jelinek canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T361425 — 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: W. Craig Jelinek Context triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, employerOf, W. Craig Jelinek]
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A.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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D.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
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E.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
- 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: W. Craig Jelinek Target entity description: W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
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A.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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B.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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C.
James Honaker
James Honaker is a political scientist and statistician known for his work on methods for handling missing data and for coauthoring influential research with Gary King.
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D.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
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E.
Philip M. Kaiser
Philip M. Kaiser was an American diplomat and public servant who held several key ambassadorial posts during the Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Costco membership warehouse clubs
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linked to:
Costco Wholesale Corporation
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| boardMemberOf | Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| businessArea |
discount retailing
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membership-based wholesale clubs ⓘ |
| businessPhilosophy |
focus on low prices and value for members
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paying employees relatively high wages and benefits ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United States of America ⓘ |
| education | San Diego State University ⓘ |
| employer |
Costco Wholesale Corporation
ⓘ
FedMart ⓘ Price Club ⓘ |
| familyName | Jelinek ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | business ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| industry |
retail
ⓘ
warehouse clubs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Costco business model emphasizing low prices and membership warehouses
ⓘ
leading Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| leadershipStyle |
employee-centric management
ⓘ
focus on long-term value over short-term profits ⓘ |
| name | W. Craig Jelinek ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableRole | successor to Jim Sinegal as CEO of Costco ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Costco Wholesale Corporation
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President of Costco Wholesale Corporation ⓘ |
| workedAt |
Costco Wholesale Corporation
ⓘ
FedMart ⓘ Price Club ⓘ |
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: W. Craig Jelinek Description of subject: W. Craig Jelinek is an American business executive best known for serving as the CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.