TANSTAAFL
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TANSTAAFL is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," a libertarian slogan popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* to express the idea that everything has a cost.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| TANSTAAFL canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19582874 — 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: TANSTAAFL Context triple: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, hasMotto, TANSTAAFL]
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A.
Takas
Takas is a dialect of the Mwaghavul language spoken by a subgroup of the Mwaghavul people in Nigeria’s Plateau State.
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B.
Laffer
Laffer is a surname most prominently associated with Arthur Laffer, the American economist known for the Laffer curve concept in supply-side economics.
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C.
Thaler
The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
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D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
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E.
Lenzsche Regel
Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
- 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: TANSTAAFL Target entity description: TANSTAAFL is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," a libertarian slogan popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* to express the idea that everything has a cost.
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A.
Takas
Takas is a dialect of the Mwaghavul language spoken by a subgroup of the Mwaghavul people in Nigeria’s Plateau State.
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B.
Laffer
Laffer is a surname most prominently associated with Arthur Laffer, the American economist known for the Laffer curve concept in supply-side economics.
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C.
Thaler
The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
-
D.
Kluge's law
Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
-
E.
Lenzsche Regel
Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.