Triple

T19287749
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Big Four auditors E482357 entity
Predicate historicallyPrecededBy P3444 FINISHED
Object Big Eight auditors — NE NERFINISHED

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 Eight auditors | Statement: [Big Four auditors, historicallyPrecededBy, Big Eight 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 Eight auditors
Context triple: [Big Four auditors, historicallyPrecededBy, Big Eight auditors]
  • A. Big Eight accounting firms chosen
    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.
  • B. Big Four auditors
    The Big Four auditors are the four largest international accounting and professional services firms that dominate the global audit market for large public companies.
  • C. The Big Four
    The Big Four is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot as he confronts a powerful international criminal organization.
  • D. 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).
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d8e8cf61b0819096fe3e4107827c4e elicitation completed
NER batch_69e5fc032f108190a89e47d1458f3f55 ner completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 p.m.