Triple

T1937565
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MCI Inc. E41476 entity
Predicate notableCase P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E216127 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: MCI v. AT&T | Statement: [MCI Inc., notableCase, MCI v. AT&T]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MCI v. AT&T
Context triple: [MCI Inc., notableCase, MCI v. AT&T]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc.
    Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc. is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case that restricted when workers could challenge discriminatory seniority systems, prompting Congress to overturn its effect through the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
  • C. Argersinger v. Hamlin
    Argersinger v. Hamlin is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the right to counsel to defendants in misdemeanor cases that may result in imprisonment.
  • D. FCC v. Pacifica Foundation
    FCC v. Pacifica Foundation is a landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the government's authority to regulate indecent material on public airwaves, stemming from a radio broadcast of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" monologue.
  • E. Joint Committee on 2G Spectrum
    The Joint Committee on 2G Spectrum was a special parliamentary panel in India formed to investigate alleged irregularities and corruption in the allocation of 2G telecommunications spectrum licenses.
  • 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: MCI v. AT&T
Triple: [MCI Inc., notableCase, MCI v. AT&T]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MCI v. AT&T
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc.
    Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc. is a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case that restricted when workers could challenge discriminatory seniority systems, prompting Congress to overturn its effect through the Civil Rights Act of 1991.
  • C. Argersinger v. Hamlin
    Argersinger v. Hamlin is a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that extended the right to counsel to defendants in misdemeanor cases that may result in imprisonment.
  • D. FCC v. Pacifica Foundation
    FCC v. Pacifica Foundation is a landmark 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the government's authority to regulate indecent material on public airwaves, stemming from a radio broadcast of George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" monologue.
  • E. Joint Committee on 2G Spectrum
    The Joint Committee on 2G Spectrum was a special parliamentary panel in India formed to investigate alleged irregularities and corruption in the allocation of 2G telecommunications spectrum licenses.
  • 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_69a88649b24c819080047f26b6db2ded completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb2c752fc81909baf38ff1cdeb18c completed March 7, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3f6285c8190925af156f49cf9a2 completed March 8, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf4aea46481908b5da7c4251dd867 completed March 8, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf52b63c481908fcb9db4c40875b4 completed March 8, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.