Triple

T20421136

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	President of Costco Wholesale	`E500851`	entity
Predicate	collaboratesWith	`P37`	FINISHED
Object	Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale The Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and risk management to support its global retail operations.	`E1368063`	NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini

Instruction

Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).

Input

Phrase: Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale | Statement: [President of Costco Wholesale, collaboratesWith, Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale
Context triple: [President of Costco Wholesale, collaboratesWith, Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale]

A. President of Costco Wholesale
The President of Costco Wholesale is the top executive responsible for overseeing the global operations and strategic direction of the Costco membership-based warehouse retail chain.
B. Chief Executive Officer of Tesco
The Chief Executive Officer of Tesco is the top executive responsible for leading the strategy, operations, and overall management of Tesco, one of the largest multinational grocery and general merchandise retailers.
C. Chief Executive Officer of Capital One
The Chief Executive Officer of Capital One is the top executive responsible for leading the company’s overall strategy, operations, and financial performance as one of the largest U.S. banks and credit card issuers.
D. Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett-Packard
The Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett-Packard is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and risk management.
E. Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks
The Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks is the top executive responsible for leading the company’s global strategy, operations, and overall business performance.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1

Instruction

Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"

Input

Entity: Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale
Triple: [President of Costco Wholesale, collaboratesWith, Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale]

Generated description

The Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and risk management to support its global retail operations.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale
Target entity description: The Chief Financial Officer of Costco Wholesale is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and risk management to support its global retail operations.

A. President of Costco Wholesale
The President of Costco Wholesale is the top executive responsible for overseeing the global operations and strategic direction of the Costco membership-based warehouse retail chain.
B. Chief Executive Officer of Tesco
The Chief Executive Officer of Tesco is the top executive responsible for leading the strategy, operations, and overall management of Tesco, one of the largest multinational grocery and general merchandise retailers.
C. Chief Executive Officer of Capital One
The Chief Executive Officer of Capital One is the top executive responsible for leading the company’s overall strategy, operations, and financial performance as one of the largest U.S. banks and credit card issuers.
D. Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett-Packard chosen
The Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett-Packard is the senior executive responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy, planning, reporting, and risk management.
E. Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks
The Chief Executive Officer of Starbucks is the top executive responsible for leading the company’s global strategy, operations, and overall business performance.
F. None of above.

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step	Stage	Batch ID	Status	When
creating	Elicitation	`batch_69e0b4aa68fc8190b1a14c55575ef04a`	completed	April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e67ba479008190bf6d31ee79f3a401`	completed	April 20, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a0883f2977c8190b8c98b5beec749c1`	completed	May 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a0885caeb648190b07dd6dab576a9f8`	completed	May 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a08863ed9748190bd15713b2cfa61c0`	completed	May 16, 2026, 2:59 p.m.

Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:30 a.m.