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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.