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

How this triple was built (2 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
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]
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)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d8e8cf61b0819096fe3e4107827c4e completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fc032f108190a89e47d1458f3f55 completed April 20, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:30 p.m.