Triple
T7533048
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James W. McCord Jr. |
E178074
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Watergate burglary |
E1565
|
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: Watergate burglary | Statement: [James W. McCord Jr., notableWork, Watergate burglary]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Watergate burglary Context triple: [James W. McCord Jr., notableWork, Watergate burglary]
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A.
Watergate scandal
chosen
The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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B.
Watergate Seven
The Watergate Seven were a group of former Nixon administration and campaign officials indicted and prosecuted for their roles in the Watergate scandal, which ultimately led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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C.
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
The Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) was U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign organization, best known for its central role in financing and orchestrating activities that led to the Watergate scandal.
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D.
FBI ABSCAM operation
The FBI ABSCAM operation was a late-1970s undercover sting in which federal agents posed as wealthy Arab investors to expose political corruption among U.S. public officials.
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E.
Watergate Special Prosecution Force
The Watergate Special Prosecution Force was a temporary, independent team of U.S. federal prosecutors established in the 1970s to investigate and prosecute crimes related to the Watergate scandal involving President Richard Nixon’s administration.
- 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_69c69f2acdbc8190b5a8320168c1d0ba |
completed | March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f8493964819086aeddfa4872a70b |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:36 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c84f03485c8190829beb95a8be0236 |
completed | March 28, 2026, 9:58 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:47 p.m.