Triple

T1534743
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brown & Williamson E32524 entity
Predicate involvedIn P149 FINISHED
Object United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)
United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. is a landmark U.S. federal racketeering and fraud case in which major tobacco companies were found to have deceived the public for decades about the health risks and addictiveness of smoking.
E31201 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. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group) | Statement: [Brown & Williamson, involvedIn, United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)
Context triple: [Brown & Williamson, involvedIn, United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Philip Morris USA
    Philip Morris USA is a major American tobacco company best known as the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes and a key player in the U.S. tobacco industry.
  • D. Philip Morris Companies Inc.
    Philip Morris Companies Inc. was a major American tobacco and consumer products conglomerate that later restructured and rebranded as Altria Group, Inc.
  • E. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • 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. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)
Triple: [Brown & Williamson, involvedIn, United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)]
Generated description
United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. is a landmark U.S. federal racketeering and fraud case in which major tobacco companies were found to have deceived the public for decades about the health risks and addictiveness of smoking.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. (as a defendant company group)
Target entity description: United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al. is a landmark U.S. federal racketeering and fraud case in which major tobacco companies were found to have deceived the public for decades about the health risks and addictiveness of smoking.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Philip Morris USA chosen
    Philip Morris USA is a major American tobacco company best known as the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes and a key player in the U.S. tobacco industry.
  • D. Philip Morris Companies Inc.
    Philip Morris Companies Inc. was a major American tobacco and consumer products conglomerate that later restructured and rebranded as Altria Group, Inc.
  • E. Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was a major American tobacco company, known as one of the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States and a key party in landmark tobacco litigation and regulation.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a885ea86308190998f6bc14bb91f8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90828cdf08190aa404a0c11335c7b completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad295da0988190b1dc171bcdfe4d71 completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad29dc9fd08190b67527f0662c92dc completed March 8, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a4d71a88190b67ed21beebbb479 completed March 8, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.