Triple

T21849962
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scott Sullivan E539476 entity
Predicate legalAction P7077 FINISHED
Object United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom) NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom) | Statement: [Scott Sullivan, legalAction, United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom)
Context triple: [Scott Sullivan, legalAction, United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom)]
  • A. United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers
    United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers was the federal criminal case in which former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was prosecuted and convicted for orchestrating one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history.
  • B. United States v. Skilling
    United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
  • C. 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.
  • D. WorldCom accounting scandal
    The WorldCom accounting scandal was a massive early-2000s corporate fraud case in which the telecommunications giant inflated its earnings by billions of dollars, becoming one of the largest accounting scandals in U.S. history and helping spur major reforms in financial regulation.
  • E. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom)
Target entity description: United States v. Scott Sullivan (criminal case related to WorldCom) was the federal criminal prosecution of WorldCom’s former chief financial officer for his role in the massive accounting fraud that led to the company’s collapse.
  • A. United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers
    United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers was the federal criminal case in which former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers was prosecuted and convicted for orchestrating one of the largest accounting frauds in U.S. history.
  • B. United States v. Skilling
    United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
  • C. 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.
  • D. WorldCom accounting scandal
    The WorldCom accounting scandal was a massive early-2000s corporate fraud case in which the telecommunications giant inflated its earnings by billions of dollars, becoming one of the largest accounting scandals in U.S. history and helping spur major reforms in financial regulation.
  • E. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e0c476c3c88190a92d08ebb59a128a completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f0bd582ca48190890648fdee2a0c6e completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:55 p.m.