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Marshall Field & Company (colloquially Marshall Field's) was an American department store chain founded in 1852 by Potter Palmer. After joining the partnership in 1865, Marshall Field rose in Palmer's initial retail establishment and then developed it into a grand and innovative shopping destination in the late 1800s. It was based in Chicago, Illinois…
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TTTA extracted 284 structured relationships around Marshall Field's. Examples in this analysis include Marshall Field's → Defunct → September 9, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-09) and Marshall Field's → Fate → Acquisition by Federated Department Stores. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall Field's | Defunct | September 9, 2006; 19 years ago (2006-09-09) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Fate | Acquisition by Federated Department Stores | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Founded | 1852; 174 years ago (1852) in Chicago, Illinois, United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Founder | Potter Palmer | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Genre | Department stores | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Headquarters | Marshall Field and Company Building, Chicago, Illinois, United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Industry | Retail | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Key people | Marshall Field | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Key people | Levi Leiter | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Key people | Harry Gordon Selfridge | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Key people | John G. Shedd | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Parent | Batus Inc. (1982–1990) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Parent | Dayton Hudson Corporation[a] (1990–2004) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Parent | The May Department Stores Company (2004–2005) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Parent | Federated Department Stores (2005–2006) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Subsidiaries | The Crescent | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Subsidiaries | Frederick & Nelson | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Subsidiaries | Halle Bros. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Successor | Macy's | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Trade name | Marshall Field's | 1.00 | infobox |
| Marshall Field's | Type | Subsidiary | 1.00 | infobox |
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For Marshall Field's, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Marshall Field's with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Marshall Field's to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Community, Events & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Marshall Field's · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout