Triple
T7880968
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ulysses S. Grant administration |
E182977
|
entity |
| Predicate | significantEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
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.
|
E697869
|
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: Sanborn contracts scandal | Statement: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Sanborn contracts scandal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sanborn contracts scandal Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Sanborn contracts scandal]
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A.
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.
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B.
Thornton Affair
The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
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C.
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.
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D.
Recruit scandal
The Recruit scandal was a major late-1980s Japanese political corruption affair involving insider trading and illicit share allocations to influential politicians and business leaders, which severely undermined public trust in the government.
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E.
1889 Cleveland Street scandal
The 1889 Cleveland Street scandal was a notorious Victorian-era British sex scandal involving a male brothel in London that implicated members of the aristocracy and raised suspicions of a cover-up to protect high-ranking figures.
- 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: Sanborn contracts scandal Triple: [Ulysses S. Grant administration, significantEvent, Sanborn contracts scandal]
Generated description
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.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sanborn contracts scandal Target entity description: 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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A.
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.
-
B.
Thornton Affair
The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Recruit scandal
The Recruit scandal was a major late-1980s Japanese political corruption affair involving insider trading and illicit share allocations to influential politicians and business leaders, which severely undermined public trust in the government.
-
E.
1889 Cleveland Street scandal
The 1889 Cleveland Street scandal was a notorious Victorian-era British sex scandal involving a male brothel in London that implicated members of the aristocracy and raised suspicions of a cover-up to protect high-ranking figures.
- 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.