Triple

T21739805
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John A. Macdonald E536623 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object Pacific Scandal
The Pacific Scandal was a major 1870s Canadian political corruption affair involving the Conservative government’s handling of the Canadian Pacific Railway contract, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.
E1499945 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: Pacific Scandal | Statement: [John A. Macdonald, notableFor, Pacific Scandal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Scandal
Context triple: [John A. Macdonald, notableFor, Pacific Scandal]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Morgan affair
    The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • 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: Pacific Scandal
Triple: [John A. Macdonald, notableFor, Pacific Scandal]
Generated description
The Pacific Scandal was a major 1870s Canadian political corruption affair involving the Conservative government’s handling of the Canadian Pacific Railway contract, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pacific Scandal
Target entity description: The Pacific Scandal was a major 1870s Canadian political corruption affair involving the Conservative government’s handling of the Canadian Pacific Railway contract, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Morgan affair
    The Morgan affair was an 1826 incident involving the disappearance of William Morgan after he threatened to expose Masonic secrets, which sparked widespread anti-Masonic sentiment in the United States.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Calas affair
    The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
  • 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_69e0c46df5448190b4322127ffc4c690 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f01a714c208190b96efe23ed3bf0db completed April 28, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a2ed6393c8190973dda40d63eb736 completed May 17, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a305abef08190ae24c97fa5a528e3 completed May 17, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a30ec03808190a7f6028243e5728a completed May 17, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:49 p.m.