Triple

T8556323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apple Corps E202571 entity
Predicate legalDispute P3996 FINISHED
Object Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
Apple Corps v. Apple Computer was a series of high-profile trademark lawsuits between the Beatles’ record company and the technology firm over the use of the “Apple” name and logo in music-related products and services.
E743236 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: Apple Corps v. Apple Computer | Statement: [Apple Corps, legalDispute, Apple Corps v. Apple Computer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
Context triple: [Apple Corps, legalDispute, Apple Corps v. Apple Computer]
  • A. Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
    Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
  • B. Microsoft Corp. v. United States
    Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
  • C. United States v. Microsoft Corp.
    United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
  • D. Apple Corps
    Apple Corps is a multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 to manage their business interests and creative projects, including their record label Apple Records.
  • E. MCI v. AT&T
    MCI v. AT&T was a landmark U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the telecommunications industry that challenged AT&T’s monopoly and helped open the long-distance market to competition.
  • 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: Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
Triple: [Apple Corps, legalDispute, Apple Corps v. Apple Computer]
Generated description
Apple Corps v. Apple Computer was a series of high-profile trademark lawsuits between the Beatles’ record company and the technology firm over the use of the “Apple” name and logo in music-related products and services.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Apple Corps v. Apple Computer
Target entity description: Apple Corps v. Apple Computer was a series of high-profile trademark lawsuits between the Beatles’ record company and the technology firm over the use of the “Apple” name and logo in music-related products and services.
  • A. Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc.
    Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc. is a landmark U.S. copyright and trademark case in which the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Alex Kozinski, held that the song "Barbie Girl" was protected parody and did not infringe Mattel’s rights in the Barbie doll.
  • B. Microsoft Corp. v. United States
    Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
  • C. United States v. Microsoft Corp.
    United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
  • D. Apple Corps
    Apple Corps is a multimedia corporation founded by the Beatles in 1968 to manage their business interests and creative projects, including their record label Apple Records.
  • E. MCI v. AT&T
    MCI v. AT&T was a landmark U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the telecommunications industry that challenged AT&T’s monopoly and helped open the long-distance market to competition.
  • 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_69ca832610e08190b3b6c6cd2c250255 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe88bcce081909e12e4037a0e6323 completed March 31, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce893b24c0819094fead15749fe1ee completed April 2, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8a9ba0448190ae7637f24b8a8032 completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8bda33548190a8f6985a48d65a39 completed April 2, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:19 p.m.