Triple
T11455058
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Steroid era of Major League Baseball |
E271503
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | BALCO scandal |
E808355
|
NE FINISHED |
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: BALCO scandal | Statement: [Steroid era of Major League Baseball, associatedWith, BALCO scandal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BALCO scandal Context triple: [Steroid era of Major League Baseball, associatedWith, BALCO scandal]
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A.
BALCO doping scandal
chosen
The BALCO doping scandal was a major early-2000s sports controversy involving a California laboratory’s distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes, leading to high-profile investigations, bans, and criminal convictions.
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B.
Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball (2007)
The Mitchell Report on performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball (2007) is an independent investigative report that exposed the widespread use of steroids and other performance-enhancing substances among MLB players and prompted major reforms in the league’s drug-testing policies.
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C.
Recruit scandal
The Recruit scandal was a major late-1980s Japanese political corruption affair involving insider trading and illicit share allocations to influential politicians and business leaders, which severely undermined public trust in the government.
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D.
2015 FIFA corruption case
The 2015 FIFA corruption case was a major international scandal involving widespread bribery, fraud, and money laundering among top football officials, leading to numerous arrests and the downfall of several high-ranking FIFA executives.
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E.
Athletes Against Drugs
Athletes Against Drugs is a nonprofit organization that partners with sports figures to promote drug-free lifestyles and positive youth development.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6aadff8888190a13f253f0d460874 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d81c7057688190ad8aa99426e4ca30 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e5d3e197c881909db2e4e59c61c3c3 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 7:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.