Triple

T16529518
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernst & Young E401526 entity
Predicate memberOf P10 FINISHED
Object Big Four auditors E482357 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Big Four auditors | Statement: [Ernst & Young, memberOf, Big Four auditors]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Big Four auditors
Context triple: [Ernst & Young, memberOf, Big Four auditors]
  • A. Big Four auditors chosen
    The Big Four auditors are the four largest international accounting and professional services firms that dominate the global audit market for large public companies.
  • B. Big Eight accounting firms
    The Big Eight accounting firms were the dominant group of large international professional services networks that led the global audit and accounting industry before a series of mergers reduced them to today’s Big Four.
  • C. Big Four
    The Big Four was a historic Canadian football league that formed the basis of modern professional Canadian football and eventually evolved into part of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
  • D. Big Four
    The Big Four were the four largest British railway companies that dominated rail transport in Great Britain between the 1923 Grouping and nationalisation in 1948.
  • E. The Big Four
    The Big Four is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot as he confronts a powerful international criminal organization.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d883838abc8190bc79cb2d41733ce2 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e32ed625208190a68b879266b05b3f ner completed
NED1 batch_6a00608efd0c81908e64419bd74eb285 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:14 a.m.