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.]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.