Triple

T7612029
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme E172262 entity
Predicate legalProceeding P3010 FINISHED
Object United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
United States v. Bernard L. Madoff is the landmark federal criminal case in which financier Bernard Madoff was prosecuted and sentenced for orchestrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
E676602 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: United States v. Bernard L. Madoff | Statement: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, legalProceeding, United States v. Bernard L. Madoff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
Context triple: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, legalProceeding, United States v. Bernard L. Madoff]
  • A. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme
    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.
  • B. Madoff (miniseries)
    Madoff (miniseries) is a television drama that chronicles the rise and fall of infamous financier Bernie Madoff and his massive Ponzi scheme.
  • C. 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.
  • D. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • E. United States v. Skilling
    United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
Triple: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, legalProceeding, United States v. Bernard L. Madoff]
Generated description
United States v. Bernard L. Madoff is the landmark federal criminal case in which financier Bernard Madoff was prosecuted and sentenced for orchestrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: United States v. Bernard L. Madoff
Target entity description: United States v. Bernard L. Madoff is the landmark federal criminal case in which financier Bernard Madoff was prosecuted and sentenced for orchestrating one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
  • A. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme
    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.
  • B. Madoff (miniseries)
    Madoff (miniseries) is a television drama that chronicles the rise and fall of infamous financier Bernie Madoff and his massive Ponzi scheme.
  • C. 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.
  • D. United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP
    United States v. Arthur Andersen LLP was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the criminal conviction of Enron’s accounting firm for obstruction of justice, significantly shaping standards for prosecuting corporate document destruction.
  • E. United States v. Skilling
    United States v. Skilling is a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case involving former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling that significantly narrowed the scope of the federal “honest services” fraud statute.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c868645f8081909439f63df3184628 completed March 28, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c868edf84c8190a6fefce18fc606e1 completed March 28, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c869c54ad08190ba42231080d0e9f3 completed March 28, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.