Stratton Oakmont
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Stratton Oakmont was a notorious Long Island-based brokerage firm known for its aggressive “pump and dump” stock schemes and central role in the securities fraud case involving Jordan Belfort.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stratton Oakmont canonical | 4 |
| Stratton Oakmont, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2658926 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stratton Oakmont Context triple: [Jordan Belfort, employer, Stratton Oakmont]
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A.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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B.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
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C.
Mirage Enterprises
Mirage Enterprises is a film production company best known for producing acclaimed movies such as the Academy Award–winning drama "Out of Africa."
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D.
Forever Enterprises
Forever Enterprises is the private company that owns and operates the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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E.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stratton Oakmont Target entity description: Stratton Oakmont was a notorious Long Island-based brokerage firm known for its aggressive “pump and dump” stock schemes and central role in the securities fraud case involving Jordan Belfort.
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A.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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B.
Netscape Communications Corporation
Netscape Communications Corporation was a pioneering web browser company of the 1990s whose Netscape Navigator played a central role in the early popularization of the World Wide Web.
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C.
Mirage Enterprises
Mirage Enterprises is a film production company best known for producing acclaimed movies such as the Academy Award–winning drama "Out of Africa."
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D.
Forever Enterprises
Forever Enterprises is the private company that owns and operates the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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E.
United Company
United Company was a prominent late 17th-century London theatre company formed by the merger of the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, active during the Restoration period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brokerage firm
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defunct company ⓘ over-the-counter brokerage ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Wall Street culture of the 1990s ⓘ |
| businessModel | over-the-counter stock sales ⓘ |
| businessPractice |
fraudulent stock promotion
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manipulation of penny stocks ⓘ misleading investment recommendations ⓘ |
| charge |
money laundering
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securities fraud ⓘ |
| closureReason |
regulatory action
ⓘ
securities law violations ⓘ |
| consequence |
court-ordered restitution to investors
ⓘ
revocation of broker-dealer license ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| foundedBy |
Danny Porush
ⓘ
Jordan Belfort ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Stratton Oakmont
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Stratton Oakmont, Inc.
|
| hasPart | boiler room trading floor ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
securities brokerage ⓘ |
| influenced | public perception of stockbrokers ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Danny Porush
ⓘ
Jordan Belfort ⓘ |
| knownFor |
boiler room operations
ⓘ
high-pressure cold calling ⓘ pump and dump schemes ⓘ securities fraud ⓘ |
| legalForm | private company ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Long Island
ⓘ
New York ⓘ |
| method |
artificial inflation of stock prices
ⓘ
cold-calling retail investors ⓘ dumping overvalued shares on clients ⓘ |
| notableCase |
Jordan Belfort securities fraud case
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U.S. federal securities fraud prosecution ⓘ |
| operationalFocus |
penny stocks
ⓘ
small-cap companies ⓘ |
| regulator |
National Association of Securities Dealers
ⓘ
Securities and Exchange Commission ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
|
| reputation | notorious brokerage firm ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Wolf of Wall Street ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| victim | retail investors ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Stratton Oakmont Description of subject: Stratton Oakmont was a notorious Long Island-based brokerage firm known for its aggressive “pump and dump” stock schemes and central role in the securities fraud case involving Jordan Belfort.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stratton Oakmont, Inc.