Triple

T14255215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States – Tax Treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations” E353366 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Foreign Sales Corporation
A Foreign Sales Corporation was a U.S.-created, tax-advantaged export entity structure used by American companies to reduce U.S. taxes on income from foreign sales, later found to violate international trade rules.
E1089745 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: Foreign Sales Corporation | Statement: [United States – Tax Treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations”, relatedConcept, Foreign Sales Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foreign Sales Corporation
Context triple: [United States – Tax Treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations”, relatedConcept, Foreign Sales Corporation]
  • A. War Finance Corporation
    The War Finance Corporation was a U.S. government agency created during World War I to provide financial support to war-related industries and stabilize the national economy.
  • B. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • C. Container Corporation of America
    Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Commodity Stabilization Service
    The Commodity Stabilization Service was a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency responsible for administering farm price support and commodity stabilization programs during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Export-Import Bank of the United States
    The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official U.S. export credit agency that provides financing and insurance to support American exports and promote U.S. jobs.
  • 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: Foreign Sales Corporation
Triple: [United States – Tax Treatment for “Foreign Sales Corporations”, relatedConcept, Foreign Sales Corporation]
Generated description
A Foreign Sales Corporation was a U.S.-created, tax-advantaged export entity structure used by American companies to reduce U.S. taxes on income from foreign sales, later found to violate international trade rules.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Foreign Sales Corporation
Target entity description: A Foreign Sales Corporation was a U.S.-created, tax-advantaged export entity structure used by American companies to reduce U.S. taxes on income from foreign sales, later found to violate international trade rules.
  • A. War Finance Corporation
    The War Finance Corporation was a U.S. government agency created during World War I to provide financial support to war-related industries and stabilize the national economy.
  • B. United Company
    United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
  • C. Container Corporation of America
    Container Corporation of America was a pioneering American packaging company renowned for its innovative modernist graphic design and influential corporate identity campaigns in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Commodity Stabilization Service
    The Commodity Stabilization Service was a U.S. Department of Agriculture agency responsible for administering farm price support and commodity stabilization programs during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Export-Import Bank of the United States
    The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official U.S. export credit agency that provides financing and insurance to support American exports and promote U.S. jobs.
  • 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_69d8278c43e08190824146f4632b89a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de62992a188190bc046fbab5a149d6 completed April 14, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd325c98288190ba035fb5cc5bcf6b completed May 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd33cba18481908f2dfe358017f11b completed May 8, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd346ffb9c81909ec28e514ea5451b completed May 8, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:09 a.m.