Triple

T7612042
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme E172262 entity
Predicate trustee P451 FINISHED
Object Irving H. Picard
Irving H. Picard is the court-appointed trustee and attorney responsible for recovering funds for victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme.
E861176 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: Irving H. Picard | Statement: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, trustee, Irving H. Picard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving H. Picard
Context triple: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, trustee, Irving H. Picard]
  • A. Edward M. Kern
    Edward M. Kern was a 19th-century American topographer and explorer after whom California’s Kern County was named.
  • B. Robert N. Davoren
    Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
  • C. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • D. Edward H. R. Lyman
    Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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: Irving H. Picard
Triple: [Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC Ponzi scheme, trustee, Irving H. Picard]
Generated description
Irving H. Picard is the court-appointed trustee and attorney responsible for recovering funds for victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving H. Picard
Target entity description: Irving H. Picard is the court-appointed trustee and attorney responsible for recovering funds for victims of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme.
  • A. Edward M. Kern
    Edward M. Kern was a 19th-century American topographer and explorer after whom California’s Kern County was named.
  • B. Robert N. Davoren
    Robert N. Davoren was a notable figure in New York City's correctional system, commemorated by having a Rikers Island jail facility named in his honor.
  • C. Herbert F. York
    Herbert F. York was an American physicist and arms control advocate who became the first director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a prominent advisor on nuclear policy and disarmament.
  • D. Edward H. R. Lyman
    Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • E. Franklin H. Martin
    Franklin H. Martin was an American surgeon and medical leader best known for founding and guiding the development of the American College of Surgeons.
  • 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_69d7faf8c1048190a136289a44a0930b completed April 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d81c40dc6081908cc186ee6cd0814e completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d8277fbf0881908a1e16d6c07886e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:55 p.m.