Triple

T20733872
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernie Madoff E509638 entity
Predicate operatedPonziSchemeThrough P30573 FINISHED
Object Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC | Statement: [Bernie Madoff, operatedPonziSchemeThrough, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
Context triple: [Bernie Madoff, operatedPonziSchemeThrough, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC]
  • A. Bernie Madoff
    Bernie Madoff was an American financier who orchestrated one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, defrauding thousands of investors of billions of dollars.
  • B. Andrew Madoff
    Andrew Madoff was the younger son of infamous financier Bernie Madoff, known for his involvement in his father's investment firm and his public efforts to distance himself from the Ponzi scheme scandal.
  • C. Mark Madoff
    Mark Madoff was the elder son of infamous financier Bernie Madoff, whose life and tragic death drew widespread attention in the aftermath of his father's massive Ponzi scheme.
  • D. Ruth Madoff
    Ruth Madoff is the wife of infamous financier and Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, known for her controversial role and public scrutiny following the exposure of his massive financial fraud.
  • E. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme chosen
    The Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme was a massive, decades-long fraudulent investment operation orchestrated by Bernie Madoff that became one of the largest and most notorious financial scams in history.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: operatedPonziSchemeThrough
Context triple: [Bernie Madoff, operatedPonziSchemeThrough, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC]
  • A. operatedThrough chosen
    Indicates that an action, process, or influence is carried out or mediated via a particular intermediary, channel, or mechanism.
  • B. operatedAs
    Indicates that an entity functioned or was used in the capacity, role, or identity of another entity for some period of time.
  • C. exploitedFor
    Indicates that one entity is unfairly or abusively used by another entity as a resource, means, or advantage for the latter’s benefit.
  • D. usedMeansOfDeception
    Indicates that one entity employed a particular method or tool specifically to deceive another entity.
  • E. operatedBehind
    Indicates that one entity performed an operation or action while being physically or figuratively positioned at the rear or out of direct view of another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (3 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c1ef3040819085c8056e75571104 completed April 21, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e5c04b31248190b9b9d91b5cb854e3 completed April 20, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:31 p.m.