organized crime group
C5695
concept
An organized crime group is a structured association of individuals who collaborate over time to commit, facilitate, or profit from serious criminal activities, often using violence, corruption, and intimidation to maintain power and evade law enforcement.
All labels observed (32)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| organized crime group canonical | 28 |
| drug trafficking organization | 13 |
| Italian-American Mafia crime family | 10 |
| street gang | 10 |
| drug cartel | 8 |
| crime family | 7 |
| Italian-American Mafia family | 4 |
| Italian-American organized crime syndicate | 3 |
| criminal underworld | 3 |
| crime syndicate | 2 |
| criminal organization network | 2 |
| mafia-type organization | 2 |
| American Mafia crime family | 1 |
| American crime family | 1 |
| Irish-American crime family | 1 |
| Irish-American mob | 1 |
| Irish-American organized crime | 1 |
| Italian-American organized crime group | 1 |
| Mafia crime family | 1 |
| Mafia organization | 1 |
| Mexican drug cartel | 1 |
| alleged drug trafficking organization | 1 |
| criminal cartel | 1 |
| criminal network | 1 |
| drug-smuggling syndicate | 1 |
| gangster clan | 1 |
| illicit trafficking network | 1 |
| organized crime depiction | 1 |
| organized crime syndicate network | 1 |
| secret criminal society | 1 |
| street gang alliance | 1 |
| transnational criminal organization | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: organized crime group
Generated description
An organized crime group is a structured association of individuals who collaborate over time to commit, facilitate, or profit from serious criminal activities, often using violence, corruption, and intimidation to maintain power and evade law enforcement.
Instances (91)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Cody crime family | crime family |
| Sinaloa Cartel | drug trafficking organization |
| La Familia Michoacana | drug cartel |
| Knights Templar Cartel | Mexican drug cartel |
| Jalisco New Generation Cartel | — |
| Gulf Cartel | drug cartel |
| Los Zetas | drug cartel |
| Beltrán-Leyva Cartel | drug cartel |
| Juárez Cartel | drug cartel |
| Kelly family | crime family |
| Tijuana Cartel | drug cartel |
| Cartel del Noreste | drug cartel |
| Medellín Cartel | drug trafficking organization |
| Cali Cartel | drug trafficking organization |
| Chicago Outfit | Italian-American organized crime syndicate |
| Sun Gym gang | — |
| Russian mob | — |
| Cartel of the Suns | alleged drug trafficking organization |
| Stanfield Organization | drug trafficking organization |
| Charlestown Mob | — |
| Mullens gang | — |
| Killeen gang | street gang |
| Patriarca crime family | Italian-American Mafia crime family |
| Reddington’s criminal syndicate | criminal network |
| Brownsville Boys | street gang |
| Roark family | crime family |
| Irish Kings | crime syndicate |
| Jack Welker’s gang | drug trafficking organization |
| Cartel | drug trafficking organization |
| Janus crime syndicate | crime syndicate |
| Shelby family | crime family |
| Bottle Street Gang | street gang |
| La Cosa Nostra | Italian-American organized crime syndicate |
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LCN
surface form:
La Cosa Nostra
|
Italian-American organized crime syndicate |
| North Jersey underworld | criminal underworld |
| New York Lupertazzi crime family | — |
| Proposition Joe’s Eastside crew | drug trafficking organization |
| Barksdale family | drug trafficking organization |
| New Day Co-Op | drug trafficking organization |
| Miami drug cartel | drug cartel |
| Colombian drug cartels | criminal organization network |