Triple
T20733872
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bernie Madoff |
E509638
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entity |
| Predicate | operatedPonziSchemeThrough |
P30573
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC |
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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A.
operatedThrough
chosen
Indicates that an action, process, or influence is carried out or mediated via a particular intermediary, channel, or mechanism.
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B.
operatedAs
Indicates that an entity functioned or was used in the capacity, role, or identity of another entity for some period of time.
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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.
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D.
usedMeansOfDeception
Indicates that one entity employed a particular method or tool specifically to deceive another entity.
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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.