Silverado Savings and Loan
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Silverado Savings and Loan was a U.S. savings and loan institution that became notorious for its failure and role in the late-1980s savings and loan crisis, drawing additional attention due to the involvement of Neil Bush on its board.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association | 1 |
| Silverado Savings and Loan canonical | 1 |
| Silverado Savings and Loan Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1652921 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silverado Savings and Loan Context triple: [Neil Bush, boardMemberOf, Silverado Savings and Loan]
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A.
Jefferson Valley
Jefferson Valley is a residential hamlet within the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York.
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B.
Meridian Credit Union
Meridian Credit Union is one of Canada's largest credit unions, providing a full range of banking and financial services primarily to members in Ontario.
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C.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a major South African financial institution offering a wide range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses.
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D.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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E.
Hunts Bank
Hunts Bank is a street in central Manchester, England, located near major transport hubs and historic city landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silverado Savings and Loan Target entity description: Silverado Savings and Loan was a U.S. savings and loan institution that became notorious for its failure and role in the late-1980s savings and loan crisis, drawing additional attention due to the involvement of Neil Bush on its board.
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A.
Jefferson Valley
Jefferson Valley is a residential hamlet within the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York.
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B.
Meridian Credit Union
Meridian Credit Union is one of Canada's largest credit unions, providing a full range of banking and financial services primarily to members in Ontario.
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C.
First National Bank
First National Bank is a major South African financial institution offering a wide range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses.
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D.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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E.
Hunts Bank
Hunts Bank is a street in central Manchester, England, located near major transport hubs and historic city landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial institution
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savings and loan association ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
energy sector lending in the 1980s
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real estate development loans ⓘ |
| boardMember |
Neil Bush
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other local Denver business leaders ⓘ |
| ceasedOperation | 1988 ⓘ |
| closedBy | federal regulators ⓘ |
| controversy | conflict-of-interest allegations involving Neil Bush ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| era | Reagan administration era financial deregulation ⓘ |
| estimatedCostToFSLIC | approximately 1 billion U.S. dollars ⓘ |
| estimatedCostToTaxpayers | over 1 billion U.S. dollars ⓘ |
| failureDate | 1988 ⓘ |
| governedBy | U.S. thrift regulations ⓘ |
| hadProblem |
concentration of loans to a small group of borrowers
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insufficient capital to cover loan losses ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the most prominent S&L failures of the 1980s ⓘ |
| impact |
contributed to public outrage over the savings and loan crisis
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used as an example of regulatory failure in the S&L crisis ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
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thrift banking ⓘ |
| insurer | Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation ⓘ |
| investigatedBy |
Office of Thrift Supervision
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federal banking regulators ⓘ |
| legalOutcomeForNeilBush |
found to have engaged in conflicts of interest by regulators
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not criminally charged in connection with the failure ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy involving board member Neil Bush
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failure during the savings and loan crisis ⓘ large losses to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation ⓘ |
| operatedAs | federally insured savings and loan association ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association
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linked to:
Silverado Savings and Loan
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| partOf |
United States savings and loan crisis
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linked to:
savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
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| publicPerception | symbol of excesses of the savings and loan industry in the 1980s ⓘ |
| reasonForClosure | insolvency ⓘ |
| reasonForInsolvency |
high-risk real estate lending
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insider and related-party transactions ⓘ poor underwriting standards ⓘ speculative commercial real estate investments ⓘ |
| regulator | Federal Home Loan Bank Board ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
United States savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s
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linked to:
savings and loan crisis of the 1980s
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| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| successor | assets and liabilities resolved by federal receivership ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 1980s ⓘ |
| typeOfFailure | bank failure ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Silverado Savings and Loan Description of subject: Silverado Savings and Loan was a U.S. savings and loan institution that became notorious for its failure and role in the late-1980s savings and loan crisis, drawing additional attention due to the involvement of Neil Bush on its board.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Silverado Savings and Loan
Silverado Savings and Loan collapse
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involvesOrganization
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Silverado Savings and Loan Association
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linked to: Silverado Savings and Loan