Triple
T4040872
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Maurice Stans |
E83943
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEvent |
P259
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nixon campaign finance investigations |
E33398
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Nixon campaign finance investigations | Statement: [Maurice Stans, notableEvent, Nixon campaign finance investigations]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nixon campaign finance investigations Context triple: [Maurice Stans, notableEvent, Nixon campaign finance investigations]
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A.
Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major 1970s American political scandal involving the Nixon administration’s attempts to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, ultimately leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
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B.
Nixon 1972 presidential campaign
chosen
The Nixon 1972 presidential campaign was Richard Nixon’s successful re-election effort, marked by a landslide victory and later overshadowed by the Watergate scandal.
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C.
Watergate Special Prosecution Force
The Watergate Special Prosecution Force was a temporary, independent team of U.S. federal prosecutors established in the 1970s to investigate and prosecute crimes related to the Watergate scandal involving President Richard Nixon’s administration.
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D.
The Nixon Defense
The Nixon Defense is a historical and legal analysis book by former White House Counsel John Dean that reconstructs Richard Nixon’s Watergate strategy using newly released tapes and documents.
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E.
United States v. John N. Mitchell et al.
United States v. John N. Mitchell et al. was a major Watergate-era criminal case in which former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell and other top Nixon administration officials were prosecuted for their roles in the scandal.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed92f7cf0819098e0539bdcc3767f |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefb39400881909d0f5430f04e441c |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b55649b75c819086b272f56ac73be4 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 12:36 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:37 p.m.