Apalachin Meeting
E491173
The Apalachin Meeting was a notorious 1957 summit of American Mafia leaders in Apalachin, New York, whose discovery by law enforcement exposed the national scope and organization of the U.S. mob.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apalachin Mafia meeting | 1 |
| Apalachin Meeting canonical | 1 |
| Apalachin meeting | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5067721 — 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: Apalachin Meeting Context triple: [Russell Bufalino, involvedIn, Apalachin Meeting]
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A.
Baltimore Plot
The Baltimore Plot was a failed 1861 conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln as he traveled to his inauguration, foiled in part by detective work from Allan Pinkerton’s agency.
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B.
Operation Horseshoe (alleged)
Operation Horseshoe (alleged) is a purported Serbian military plan for the systematic expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo during the Kosovo War, whose existence and authenticity have been widely disputed.
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C.
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
The Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) was U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign organization, best known for its central role in financing and orchestrating activities that led to the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Condon Report
The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
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E.
Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
- 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: Apalachin Meeting Target entity description: The Apalachin Meeting was a notorious 1957 summit of American Mafia leaders in Apalachin, New York, whose discovery by law enforcement exposed the national scope and organization of the U.S. mob.
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A.
Baltimore Plot
The Baltimore Plot was a failed 1861 conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln as he traveled to his inauguration, foiled in part by detective work from Allan Pinkerton’s agency.
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B.
Operation Horseshoe (alleged)
Operation Horseshoe (alleged) is a purported Serbian military plan for the systematic expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo during the Kosovo War, whose existence and authenticity have been widely disputed.
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C.
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
The Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) was U.S. President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign organization, best known for its central role in financing and orchestrating activities that led to the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Condon Report
The Condon Report is a 1968 scientific study commissioned by the U.S. Air Force that concluded further systematic investigation of UFOs was unlikely to yield significant scientific discoveries.
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E.
Calas affair
The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mafia meeting
ⓘ
historical event ⓘ organized crime summit ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Apalachin Mafia meeting
ⓘ
linked to:
Apalachin Meeting
|
| attendedBy |
Anthony Accardo
ⓘ
linked to:
Tony Accardo
Carlo Gambino ⓘ Carmine Galante ⓘ Joseph Profaci ⓘ Russell Bufalino ⓘ Sam Giancana ⓘ Santo Trafficante Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Santo Trafficante Sr.
Stefano Magaddino ⓘ about 100 Mafia leaders ⓘ |
| disruptedBy | law enforcement ⓘ |
| exposed |
national scope of the American Mafia
ⓘ
organizational structure of the American Mafia ⓘ |
| hasAftermath |
greater cooperation between state and federal agencies on organized crime
ⓘ
increased use of conspiracy charges against mobsters ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
FBI acknowledgment of a national crime syndicate
ⓘ
increased FBI surveillance of Mafia families ⓘ |
| hasDate | 1957-11-14 ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionContext | United States federal jurisdiction ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | English ⓘ |
| hasTopic |
coordination of national criminal activities
ⓘ
division of territories among Mafia families ⓘ leadership disputes within the American Mafia ⓘ |
| hasYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| heldAt | Joseph Barbara's estate ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Joseph Barbara ⓘ |
| ledTo |
Senate investigations into organized crime
ⓘ
greater federal attention to organized crime ⓘ increased public awareness of the Mafia ⓘ strengthening of U.S. organized crime laws ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being unexpectedly discovered by police
ⓘ
large gathering of Mafia leaders ⓘ undermining Mafia claims of non-existence ⓘ |
| organizedBy | Vito Genovese ⓘ |
| precededBy | assassination of Albert Anastasia ⓘ |
| raidedBy | New York State Police ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
American Mafia
ⓘ
linked to:
La Cosa Nostra
Cosa Nostra ⓘ
linked to:
La Cosa Nostra
U.S. organized crime history ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
arrests of many attendees
ⓘ
seizure of numerous vehicles ⓘ |
| tookPlaceIn | Apalachin, New York ⓘ |
| tookPlaceInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| tookPlaceInState | New York ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Apalachin Meeting Description of subject: The Apalachin Meeting was a notorious 1957 summit of American Mafia leaders in Apalachin, New York, whose discovery by law enforcement exposed the national scope and organization of the U.S. mob.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Apalachin Meeting
linked to: Apalachin Meeting