Bell Telephone controversy

Target entity: Bell Telephone controversy
Context triple: [Elisha Gray, associatedWith, Bell Telephone controversy]

• A. Bascom Affair
  The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
• B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
  The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
• C. Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war
  The Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war was a fierce late-19th-century newspaper rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst that helped fuel sensationalist "yellow journalism" in the United States.
• D. United States v. AT&T
  United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
• E. 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.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Bell Telephone controversy
Target entity description: The Bell Telephone controversy was a 19th-century legal and historical dispute over the invention of the telephone, centering on competing patent claims and priority between Alexander Graham Bell and rival inventors.

• A. Bascom Affair
  The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
• B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
  The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
• C. Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war
  The Pulitzer–Hearst circulation war was a fierce late-19th-century newspaper rivalry between Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst that helped fuel sensationalist "yellow journalism" in the United States.
• D. United States v. AT&T
  United States v. AT&T was a landmark antitrust lawsuit in which the U.S. government forced the breakup of the Bell System telecommunications monopoly in the early 1980s.
• E. 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.
• F. None of above. chosen