Fortune 500
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Fortune 500 is an annual ranking by Fortune magazine that lists the 500 largest U.S. companies by total revenue.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fortune 500 canonical | 11 |
| Fortune 500 list | 3 |
| Fortune 500 companies | 2 |
| Fortune 100 | 1 |
| Fortune 500 executives | 1 |
| Fortune 500 ranking | 1 |
| Fortune Global 500 | 1 |
| Fortune magazine 500 largest U.S. corporations list | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152053 — 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: Fortune 500 Context triple: [Fortune, knownFor, Fortune 500]
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A.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate holding company based in the United States, best known for its diverse portfolio of wholly owned businesses and large equity investments overseen by Warren Buffett.
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B.
NYSE U.S. 100 Index
The NYSE U.S. 100 Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 100 leading U.S.-listed companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women
The Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women is an annual ranking by Forbes magazine that highlights the most influential women across politics, business, technology, media, and philanthropy worldwide.
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D.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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E.
NASDAQ-100 Index
The NASDAQ-100 Index is a stock market index comprising 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, heavily weighted toward the technology sector.
- 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: Fortune 500 Target entity description: Fortune 500 is an annual ranking by Fortune magazine that lists the 500 largest U.S. companies by total revenue.
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A.
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway is a multinational conglomerate holding company based in the United States, best known for its diverse portfolio of wholly owned businesses and large equity investments overseen by Warren Buffett.
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B.
NYSE U.S. 100 Index
The NYSE U.S. 100 Index is a stock market index that tracks the performance of 100 leading U.S.-listed companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women
The Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women is an annual ranking by Forbes magazine that highlights the most influential women across politics, business, technology, media, and philanthropy worldwide.
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D.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a major U.S. stock market index that tracks the performance of 30 large, publicly traded blue-chip companies.
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E.
NASDAQ-100 Index
The NASDAQ-100 Index is a stock market index comprising 100 of the largest non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, heavily weighted toward the technology sector.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fortune magazine list
ⓘ
annual list ⓘ corporate ranking ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fortune 500
ⓘ
surface form:
Fortune 500 list
Fortune 500 ⓘ
surface form:
Fortune magazine 500 largest U.S. corporations list
|
| basedOn | companies’ fiscal year revenue ⓘ |
| category |
business rankings
ⓘ
lists of companies ⓘ |
| countryOfScope |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataSource | companies’ audited financial statements ⓘ |
| excludes |
U.S. companies not required to file financial statements
ⓘ
private companies that do not publish financial data ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1955 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| geographicRestriction | companies incorporated in the United States ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
business school research
ⓘ
corporate reputation ⓘ economic policy discussions ⓘ executive compensation benchmarking ⓘ |
| inception | 1955 ⓘ |
| includes | U.S.-incorporated subsidiaries of foreign companies ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| metricUnit | U.S. dollars ⓘ |
| notableFor | benchmarking corporate size in the United States ⓘ |
| numberOfCompaniesRanked | 500 ⓘ |
| ownerOfPublisher |
Fortune Media IP Limited
ⓘ
Time Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Time Inc. (historical)
|
| partOf |
Fortune magazine
ⓘ
surface form:
Fortune rankings
|
| publishedBy | Fortune magazine ⓘ |
| publisher | Fortune ⓘ |
| publisherType | business magazine ⓘ |
| rankingCriterion | total revenue ⓘ |
| relatedList |
Fortune 500
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Fortune 100
Fortune 1000 ⓘ Fortune Global 500 list of largest global corporations by revenue ⓘ
surface form:
Global 500
|
| sectorCoverage |
private companies that publish financial data
ⓘ
public companies ⓘ |
| subjectOfRanking | largest U.S. companies by revenue ⓘ |
| typicalPublicationMonth | spring ⓘ |
| usedBy |
academics
ⓘ
business analysts ⓘ investors ⓘ media ⓘ |
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: Fortune 500 Description of subject: Fortune 500 is an annual ranking by Fortune magazine that lists the 500 largest U.S. companies by total revenue.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fortune 100
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 list
this entity surface form:
Fortune magazine 500 largest U.S. corporations list
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 list
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 ranking
Fortune Global 500 list of largest global corporations by revenue
→
notableRelatedList
→
Fortune 500
ⓘ
subject surface form:
Fortune Global 500
subject surface form:
Fortune
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 list
subject surface form:
Fortune
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 executives
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 companies
this entity surface form:
Fortune 500 companies