Triple

T9029266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard Ebbers E216126 entity
Predicate notableCase P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E773502 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. Bernard J. Ebbers | Statement: [Bernard Ebbers, notableCase, United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers
Context triple: [Bernard Ebbers, notableCase, United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. United States v. Gementera
    United States v. Gementera is a federal appellate case known for upholding a controversial shaming-based condition of supervised release imposed on a mail thief, raising significant debate about the limits of creative sentencing under the Eighth Amendment.
  • E. United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
    United States v. Bernard L. Madoff is the landmark federal criminal case in which financier Bernard Madoff was prosecuted and sentenced for orchestrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
  • 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. Bernard J. Ebbers
Triple: [Bernard Ebbers, notableCase, United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Bernard J. Ebbers
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. United States v. Gementera
    United States v. Gementera is a federal appellate case known for upholding a controversial shaming-based condition of supervised release imposed on a mail thief, raising significant debate about the limits of creative sentencing under the Eighth Amendment.
  • E. United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
    United States v. Bernard L. Madoff is the landmark federal criminal case in which financier Bernard Madoff was prosecuted and sentenced for orchestrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
  • 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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6a9bcb508190b58751f1772407d4 completed April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfdbc289648190834031537c8ce130 completed April 3, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfde57a18c8190b4b8c8d2f521bd2c completed April 3, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfdec619d081909fd6b268f4ce06b9 completed April 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.