Triple
T3699727
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lipstick Building |
E78546
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWith |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme |
E172262
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Madoff Ponzi scheme | Statement: [Lipstick Building, associatedWith, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme Context triple: [Lipstick Building, associatedWith, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme]
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A.
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.
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B.
Enron accounting scandal
The Enron accounting scandal was a major corporate fraud case in the early 2000s involving widespread financial misrepresentation at energy company Enron, which led to its bankruptcy and spurred sweeping reforms in U.S. corporate governance and financial regulation.
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C.
Enron
Enron was a major American energy company that became infamous for one of the largest corporate frauds and bankruptcies in history, leading to sweeping reforms in financial regulation and corporate governance.
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D.
The Fraud
The Fraud is a historical novel by Zadie Smith that intertwines a 19th-century literary household with the infamous Tichborne trial to explore truth, authorship, and identity in Victorian England.
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E.
FBI ABSCAM operation
The FBI ABSCAM operation was a late-1970s undercover sting in which federal agents posed as wealthy Arab investors to expose political corruption among U.S. public officials.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69ad85e3b1888190abc983e06968696d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc513d26c8190bfdf25f62af8c6ca |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4c3df86bc819088db92eecee69fd3 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:11 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.