Triple

T7880966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ulysses S. Grant administration E182977 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Credit Mobilier scandal
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.
E697867 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: Credit Mobilier scandal | Statement: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Credit Mobilier scandal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Credit Mobilier scandal
Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Credit Mobilier scandal]
  • A. Bettencourt affair
    The Bettencourt affair was a major French political and financial scandal involving L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, allegations of tax evasion, illegal political donations, and influence peddling at the highest levels of the French government.
  • B. Straperlo scandal
    The Straperlo scandal was a major political corruption affair in 1930s Spain involving rigged gambling concessions that severely damaged the reputation of the Radical Republican Party and contributed to the destabilization of the Second Spanish Republic.
  • C. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • D. Teapot Dome scandal
    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.
  • E. Saltergate
    Saltergate is a small hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, known as a popular stopping point on the A169 road overlooking the scenic Hole of Horcum in the North York Moors.
  • 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: Credit Mobilier scandal
Triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Credit Mobilier scandal]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Credit Mobilier scandal
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. Bettencourt affair
    The Bettencourt affair was a major French political and financial scandal involving L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, allegations of tax evasion, illegal political donations, and influence peddling at the highest levels of the French government.
  • B. Straperlo scandal
    The Straperlo scandal was a major political corruption affair in 1930s Spain involving rigged gambling concessions that severely damaged the reputation of the Radical Republican Party and contributed to the destabilization of the Second Spanish Republic.
  • C. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • D. Teapot Dome scandal
    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.
  • E. Saltergate
    Saltergate is a small hamlet in North Yorkshire, England, known as a popular stopping point on the A169 road overlooking the scenic Hole of Horcum in the North York Moors.
  • 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_69ca828af6e48190a06ee7010d8f0e64 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb39bffbc481908e868ab98a38e10a completed March 31, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5b8c812481909663119a02f6d756 completed March 31, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5f1daac88190a162132bbd40fdc6 completed March 31, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb768ac1a48190bc6a59a64adf7144 completed March 31, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:58 p.m.