Triple

T7612006
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme E172262 entity
Predicate beganApproximate P13193 FINISHED
Object early 1990s or earlier LITERAL 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: early 1990s or earlier | Statement: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, beganApproximate, early 1990s or earlier]
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: beganApproximate
Context triple: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, beganApproximate, early 1990s or earlier]
  • A. began
    Indicates that one entity initiated or started an action, event, or state involving another entity or context.
  • B. approximateStartYear chosen
    Indicates that the associated year value represents an estimated or imprecise starting year for an event, state, or relationship rather than an exact one.
  • C. beganWith
    Indicates that one event, process, or state started with or was initiated by another specified event, process, or state.
  • D. openingBeganApproxMa
    Indicates the approximate time in millions of years ago when an opening or separation process (such as rifting or basin formation) began.
  • E. timeStartApprox
    Indicates that the associated event or state begins at an approximate, rather than exact, point in time.
  • 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_69c6994f50808190ba228764bb422417 completed March 27, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6fa221c848190b892ba1caec8d83a completed March 27, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69c6f4e485f88190910b39da52a955fe completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.