Triple
T4397656
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sherman Antitrust Act |
E99530
|
entity |
| Predicate | landmarkCase |
P9728
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
|
E436009
|
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: United States v. Microsoft Corp. | Statement: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. Microsoft Corp.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Microsoft Corp. Context triple: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. Microsoft Corp.]
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A.
Microsoft Corp. v. United States
Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
EU–US Privacy Shield
The EU–US Privacy Shield was a transatlantic data transfer framework that governed how companies could legally move personal data from the European Union to the United States while aiming to ensure adequate privacy protections.
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E.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
- 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: United States v. Microsoft Corp. Triple: [Sherman Antitrust Act, landmarkCase, United States v. Microsoft Corp.]
Generated description
United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Microsoft Corp. Target entity description: United States v. Microsoft Corp. was a major U.S. antitrust lawsuit in the late 1990s and early 2000s that challenged Microsoft's dominance in the personal computer operating systems market, particularly its practices related to bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.
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A.
Microsoft Corp. v. United States
Microsoft Corp. v. United States is a landmark legal case in which the U.S. government’s authority to compel a technology company to produce customer data stored on foreign servers under U.S. law was contested.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
EU–US Privacy Shield
The EU–US Privacy Shield was a transatlantic data transfer framework that governed how companies could legally move personal data from the European Union to the United States while aiming to ensure adequate privacy protections.
-
E.
United States v. Edward Snowden
United States v. Edward Snowden is the U.S. criminal case in which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was charged for leaking classified surveillance documents, leading to international debates over government secrecy and privacy.
- 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b352adce588190b9e6ed53458aa1e1 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5e53ae7bc8190b216319e522b11c6 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b5e5f8b9bc8190abb35710e2ddbe5e |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:49 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b5e62af694819086b3eddb71f591d2 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.