BSA
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BSA is a U.S. anti-money laundering law that requires financial institutions to assist government agencies in detecting and preventing financial crimes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BSA canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294596 — 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: BSA Context triple: [Bank Secrecy Act, shortName, BSA]
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A.
BSC
BSC is an acronym commonly referring to British Security Coordination, a covert World War II intelligence organization established by the United Kingdom in North America.
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B.
BAA
BAA is the acronym for the Basketball Association of America, the professional basketball league that later merged to form today’s National Basketball Association (NBA).
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C.
BOL
BOL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bolivia.
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D.
EBSA
EBSA is a U.S. Department of Labor agency responsible for enforcing federal laws that regulate private-sector employee benefit plans, including retirement and health plans.
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E.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
- 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: BSA Target entity description: BSA is a U.S. anti-money laundering law that requires financial institutions to assist government agencies in detecting and preventing financial crimes.
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A.
BSC
BSC is an acronym commonly referring to British Security Coordination, a covert World War II intelligence organization established by the United Kingdom in North America.
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B.
BAA
BAA is the acronym for the Basketball Association of America, the professional basketball league that later merged to form today’s National Basketball Association (NBA).
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C.
BOL
BOL is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Bolivia.
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D.
EBSA
EBSA is a U.S. Department of Labor agency responsible for enforcing federal laws that regulate private-sector employee benefit plans, including retirement and health plans.
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E.
BA
BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal law
ⓘ
anti-money laundering law ⓘ |
| abbreviation | BSA self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
ⓘ
United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of the Treasury
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Bank Secrecy Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act
|
| amendedBy |
Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act
ⓘ
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ⓘ Money Laundering Suppression Act of 1994 ⓘ Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Strategy Act of 1998 ⓘ USA PATRIOT Act ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
banks
ⓘ
broker-dealers in securities ⓘ casinos ⓘ credit unions ⓘ money services businesses ⓘ other financial institutions ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dateEnacted | 1970-10-26 ⓘ |
| enactedBy | United States Congress ⓘ |
| enforcedBy |
United States Department of Justice
ⓘ
surface form:
Department of Justice
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ⓘ Internal Revenue Service ⓘ federal banking regulators ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
money laundering
ⓘ
other financial crimes ⓘ terrorist financing ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| legalArea |
anti-money laundering law
ⓘ
banking law ⓘ financial regulation ⓘ |
| officialName |
Bank Secrecy Act
ⓘ
surface form:
Bank Secrecy Act of 1970
|
| partOf | U.S. anti-money laundering regulatory framework ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
assist government agencies in detecting and preventing financial crimes
ⓘ
combat money laundering ⓘ |
| requires |
customer identification and due diligence procedures
ⓘ
establishment of anti-money laundering programs by financial institutions ⓘ financial institutions to file certain reports with the U.S. government ⓘ financial institutions to maintain certain records ⓘ recordkeeping for certain funds transfers ⓘ |
| requiresReport |
Currency Transaction Report
ⓘ
Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Reports ⓘ
surface form:
Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Report
Bank Secrecy Act ⓘ
surface form:
Suspicious Activity Report
|
| signedBy | Richard Nixon ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
civil penalties
ⓘ
criminal penalties ⓘ |
| thresholdForCurrencyTransactionReport | more than $10,000 in cash in a single day ⓘ |
| yearEnacted | 1970 ⓘ |
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: BSA Description of subject: BSA is a U.S. anti-money laundering law that requires financial institutions to assist government agencies in detecting and preventing financial crimes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bank Secrecy Act