Triple

T1169235
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Tobacco Company E24875 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object United States v. American Tobacco Co.
United States v. American Tobacco Co. was a landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Tobacco Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
E133672 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: United States v. American Tobacco Co. | Statement: [American Tobacco Company, significantEvent, United States v. American Tobacco Co.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. American Tobacco Co.
Context triple: [American Tobacco Company, significantEvent, United States v. American Tobacco Co.]
  • A. Helvering v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
    Helvering v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is a 1930s U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed federal tax treatment of corporate stock transactions involving the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
  • B. 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
    The 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act is a U.S. law that mandated health warnings on cigarette packages and restricted tobacco advertising as part of the first major federal effort to inform the public about the dangers of smoking.
  • C. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • D. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • E. 1969 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act
    The 1969 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened cigarette labeling requirements and banned cigarette advertising on television and radio to reduce smoking-related health risks.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: United States v. American Tobacco Co.
Triple: [American Tobacco Company, significantEvent, United States v. American Tobacco Co.]
Generated description
United States v. American Tobacco Co. was a landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Tobacco Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. American Tobacco Co.
Target entity description: United States v. American Tobacco Co. was a landmark 1911 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case that led to the breakup of the American Tobacco Company under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • A. Helvering v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
    Helvering v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is a 1930s U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed federal tax treatment of corporate stock transactions involving the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
  • B. 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
    The 1965 Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act is a U.S. law that mandated health warnings on cigarette packages and restricted tobacco advertising as part of the first major federal effort to inform the public about the dangers of smoking.
  • C. Lorillard Tobacco Company
    Lorillard Tobacco Company was a major American tobacco manufacturer, known for brands like Newport, that played a central role in the U.S. cigarette industry before its acquisition by Reynolds American.
  • D. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is a major American tobacco manufacturer best known for brands like Camel and Winston and as one of the largest cigarette producers in the United States.
  • E. 1969 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act
    The 1969 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act was a U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened cigarette labeling requirements and banned cigarette advertising on television and radio to reduce smoking-related health risks.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a494082a7c819095004f423f294a64 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bce821b481908bc278a3fa7973f4 completed March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac668562788190ac5f8d081a46b2ee completed March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac67a07f28819096fcd7b767e07a63 completed March 7, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac6826ef4c81909fc077bfba22b16f completed March 7, 2026, 6:02 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.