Triple
T12851245
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Howard Taft administration |
E307323
|
entity |
| Predicate | conflict |
P12
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ballinger–Pinchot controversy |
E569165
|
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: Ballinger–Pinchot controversy | Statement: [William Howard Taft administration, conflict, Ballinger–Pinchot controversy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ballinger–Pinchot controversy Context triple: [William Howard Taft administration, conflict, Ballinger–Pinchot controversy]
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A.
Teapot Dome scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
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B.
Bascom Affair
The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
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C.
Gaspee Affair
The Gaspee Affair was a 1772 pre-Revolutionary incident in which American colonists attacked and burned the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee, helping fuel tensions that led to the American Revolution.
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D.
Hetch Hetchy water rights controversy
chosen
The Hetch Hetchy water rights controversy was an early 20th-century environmental and political battle over damming a Yosemite valley to supply water to San Francisco, helping to define the modern American conservation movement.
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E.
Beecher–Tilton scandal
The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
- 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_69d7bdf5e7cc8190be357278bc5ba3bb |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d97020eacc81909357b3398d17dc49 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f69ba5059c81908be3b8b371518f41 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:36 p.m.