Triple
T18056688
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ames family |
E432056
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Credit Mobilier of America scandal |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: Credit Mobilier of America scandal | Statement: [Ames family, associatedWith, Credit Mobilier of America scandal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Credit Mobilier of America scandal Context triple: [Ames family, associatedWith, Credit Mobilier of America scandal]
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A.
Credit Mobilier scandal
chosen
The Credit Mobilier scandal was a major 1870s political corruption affair involving fraudulent railroad construction contracts and widespread bribery of U.S. congressmen and officials.
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B.
Sanborn contracts scandal
The Sanborn contracts scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political controversy involving corrupt tax-collection contracts that damaged the reputation of President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
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C.
1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
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D.
Keating Five scandal
The Keating Five scandal was a major U.S. political controversy in the late 1980s involving five senators accused of improperly intervening with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating, whose savings and loan institution later collapsed.
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E.
Enron accounting scandal
The Enron accounting scandal was a major corporate fraud case in the early 2000s involving widespread financial misrepresentation at energy company Enron, which led to its bankruptcy and spurred sweeping reforms in U.S. corporate governance and financial regulation.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b906482481908183315b9ecf9994 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4c102d08081908d2419c898213400 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 11:48 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:26 a.m.