It was the first time for a five person team to survive, at least the WWE will tell you that, I'm not sure.
The Triple Crown stuff, I take it with a grain of salt. For me, A Triple Crown Winner would be someone winning the belts of a certain brand, or had direct history with a certain company.
My Triple Crown:
WWE Championship, IC Championship, World Tag Team Championship. All of these belts are the traditional WWE Championships.
World Heavyweight Championship, US Championship, WWE Tag Team Championship. The First two are WCW lineage titles, and the WWE Tag team titles were introduced after the merger of the WCW titles with the World Titles.
ECW: Well, it would have been the TV, ECW and Tag Team titles, but we got some growing to do for that.
So with my Triple Crown winners, JBL wouldn't be one. The US title doesn't go with the WWE title.