Triple

T9666649
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Salomon Brothers E233721 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
E814277 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: 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal | Statement: [Salomon Brothers, notableEvent, 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
Context triple: [Salomon Brothers, notableEvent, 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal]
  • A. Keating Five scandal
    The Keating Five scandal was a major U.S. political controversy in the late 1980s involving five senators accused of improperly intervening with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating, whose savings and loan institution later collapsed.
  • B. Whiskey Ring scandal
    The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
  • C. Bofors scandal
    The Bofors scandal was a major Indian political corruption controversy in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks in a Swedish howitzer gun deal, which severely damaged the credibility of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Bill Clinton–Paula Jones scandal
    The Bill Clinton–Paula Jones scandal refers to the sexual harassment allegations Paula Jones made against then–President Bill Clinton, which led to a high-profile lawsuit and played a significant role in the events surrounding his impeachment.
  • 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: 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
Triple: [Salomon Brothers, notableEvent, 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal]
Generated description
The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal
Target entity description: The 1991 U.S. Treasury auction bidding scandal was a major financial controversy in which Salomon Brothers was found to have violated Treasury auction rules by submitting illegal bids, shaking confidence in Wall Street and prompting regulatory reforms.
  • A. Keating Five scandal
    The Keating Five scandal was a major U.S. political controversy in the late 1980s involving five senators accused of improperly intervening with federal regulators on behalf of banker Charles Keating, whose savings and loan institution later collapsed.
  • B. Whiskey Ring scandal
    The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
  • C. Bofors scandal
    The Bofors scandal was a major Indian political corruption controversy in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks in a Swedish howitzer gun deal, which severely damaged the credibility of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s government.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Bill Clinton–Paula Jones scandal
    The Bill Clinton–Paula Jones scandal refers to the sexual harassment allegations Paula Jones made against then–President Bill Clinton, which led to a high-profile lawsuit and played a significant role in the events surrounding his impeachment.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c3a63948190be3f48f87bdbccf1 completed April 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a1c8b188190bcff470244b21640 completed April 4, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18b0929788190955f0da0eadb3210 completed April 4, 2026, 10:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18ea5ffbc8190b336c98087838d7b completed April 4, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:15 p.m.