EFX
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EFX is the stock ticker symbol for Equifax Inc., a major U.S.-based consumer credit reporting agency.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| EFX canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T704268 — 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: EFX Context triple: [Equifax, tickerSymbol, EFX]
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A.
EEF
EEF is the abbreviation for the Economist Educational Foundation, a charity that promotes economic and financial literacy through educational resources and programs.
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B.
EXS
EXS is the ICAO airline designator used for Jet2.com, a British low-cost leisure airline based in the United Kingdom.
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C.
FVEY
FVEY is an abbreviation for the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States that cooperates on signals intelligence and security matters.
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D.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
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E.
EK
EK is the commonly used abbreviation for the First Chamber of the Austrian Parliament (Erste Kammer).
- 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: EFX Target entity description: EFX is the stock ticker symbol for Equifax Inc., a major U.S.-based consumer credit reporting agency.
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A.
EEF
EEF is the abbreviation for the Economist Educational Foundation, a charity that promotes economic and financial literacy through educational resources and programs.
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B.
EXS
EXS is the ICAO airline designator used for Jet2.com, a British low-cost leisure airline based in the United Kingdom.
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C.
FVEY
FVEY is an abbreviation for the Five Eyes, an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States that cooperates on signals intelligence and security matters.
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D.
Audion
Audion is an early triode vacuum tube invented by Lee de Forest that enabled the amplification of electrical signals and was crucial to the development of radio and electronics.
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E.
EK
EK is the commonly used abbreviation for the First Chamber of the Austrian Parliament (Erste Kammer).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
credit reporting agency
ⓘ
public company ⓘ stock ticker symbol ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Europe
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| businessModel | business-to-business data and analytics services ⓘ |
| competitor |
Experian
ⓘ
TransUnion ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfIncorporation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| formerName | Retail Credit Company ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Cator Woolford
ⓘ
Guy Woolford ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Equifax
ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax Canada
Equifax ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax UK
Equifax ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax Workforce Solutions
Talx Corporation ⓘ |
| headquartersCity | Atlanta ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
| headquartersState | Georgia ⓘ |
| inception | 1899 ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer credit reporting
ⓘ
information services ⓘ |
| ISIN | US2944291051 ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| listedOn | NYSE:EFX ⓘ |
| memberOf | S&P 500 Index ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 2017 data breach exposing personal information of millions of consumers ⓘ |
| numberOfEmployees | over 10,000 ⓘ |
| products |
consumer credit reports
ⓘ
credit scores ⓘ fraud detection solutions ⓘ |
| regulator |
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
ⓘ
Federal Trade Commission ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Federal Trade Commission
|
| represents |
Equifax
ⓘ
surface form:
Equifax Inc.
|
| sector | Financials ⓘ |
| services |
credit monitoring
ⓘ
credit reporting ⓘ data analytics ⓘ identity theft protection ⓘ risk management solutions ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| stockTicker | EFX self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| tradedAs | EFX self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| website | https://www.equifax.com ⓘ |
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: EFX Description of subject: EFX is the stock ticker symbol for Equifax Inc., a major U.S.-based consumer credit reporting agency.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Equifax Inc.
subject surface form:
Equifax Inc.
subject surface form:
Equifax Inc.