Triple
T21689987
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company |
E535332
|
entity |
| Predicate | category |
P87
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FINISHED |
| Object | Teapot Dome 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: Teapot Dome scandal | Statement: [Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, category, Teapot Dome scandal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Teapot Dome scandal Context triple: [Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company, category, Teapot Dome scandal]
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A.
Teapot Dome scandal
chosen
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.
Ballinger–Pinchot affair
The Ballinger–Pinchot affair was a major U.S. political scandal of the early 1910s involving disputes over conservation policy and public land management that deepened the rift within the Republican Party and damaged President William Howard Taft’s administration.
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C.
Whiskey Ring scandal
The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
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D.
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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E.
Whitewater controversy
The Whitewater controversy was a 1990s political scandal involving Bill and Hillary Clinton’s past real estate investments in Arkansas that prompted multiple investigations into alleged financial and ethical misconduct.
- 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_69e0c46a6ee481908836e1420fb78c9b |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef96ce2ff88190a6cbfff45bb6a04f |
completed | April 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:44 p.m.