Triple

T22717559
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elf Aquitaine E561774 entity
Predicate notableEvent P259 FINISHED
Object Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal 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: Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal | Statement: [Elf Aquitaine, notableEvent, Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal
Context triple: [Elf Aquitaine, notableEvent, Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal]
  • A. Bettencourt affair
    The Bettencourt affair was a major French political and financial scandal involving L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, allegations of tax evasion, illegal political donations, and influence peddling at the highest levels of the French government.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Credit Mobilier scandal
    The Credit Mobilier scandal was a major 1870s political corruption affair involving fraudulent railroad construction contracts and widespread bribery of U.S. congressmen and officials.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal
Target entity description: The Elf Aquitaine corruption scandal was a major French political and corporate affair in the 1990s involving widespread bribery, embezzlement, and misuse of funds within the state-owned oil company Elf Aquitaine and high-ranking officials.
  • A. Bettencourt affair
    The Bettencourt affair was a major French political and financial scandal involving L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, allegations of tax evasion, illegal political donations, and influence peddling at the highest levels of the French government.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Credit Mobilier scandal
    The Credit Mobilier scandal was a major 1870s political corruption affair involving fraudulent railroad construction contracts and widespread bribery of U.S. congressmen and officials.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69e2454fc984819088213b58ee87a002 completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1790ecbc48190926d16b20b674dbd completed April 29, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:19 p.m.