Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
E166189
Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains is an influential 18th-century economic treatise by Turgot advocating the free trade of grain and criticizing government intervention in grain markets.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains canonical | 2 |
| Letter on the Freedom of the Grain Trade | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1453655 — 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.
Target entity: Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains Context triple: [Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, notableWork, Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains]
-
A.
Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis
Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis is a political pamphlet by Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, written during the upheavals of the 19th century to analyze European revolutionary struggles and advocate radical social transformation.
-
B.
Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne
Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne is Alexander von Humboldt’s influential statistical and geographical study of colonial Mexico, analyzing its economy, society, and natural resources in the early 19th century.
-
C.
Letters on the Eastern States
Letters on the Eastern States is an early 19th-century travel and historical work by American author William Tudor that offers detailed observations of the culture, society, and landscapes of the New England region.
-
D.
A Revision of the Treaty
A Revision of the Treaty is John Maynard Keynes’s 1922 follow-up work to The Economic Consequences of the Peace, in which he further critiques and proposes modifications to the post–World War I peace settlement.
-
E.
A Fragment on Government
A Fragment on Government is an influential 1776 political treatise by Jeremy Bentham that critiques William Blackstone’s Commentaries and lays early foundations for utilitarian legal and political theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains Target entity description: Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains is an influential 18th-century economic treatise by Turgot advocating the free trade of grain and criticizing government intervention in grain markets.
-
A.
Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis
Letters to a Frenchman on the Present Crisis is a political pamphlet by Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, written during the upheavals of the 19th century to analyze European revolutionary struggles and advocate radical social transformation.
-
B.
Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne
Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne is Alexander von Humboldt’s influential statistical and geographical study of colonial Mexico, analyzing its economy, society, and natural resources in the early 19th century.
-
C.
Letters on the Eastern States
Letters on the Eastern States is an early 19th-century travel and historical work by American author William Tudor that offers detailed observations of the culture, society, and landscapes of the New England region.
-
D.
A Revision of the Treaty
A Revision of the Treaty is John Maynard Keynes’s 1922 follow-up work to The Economic Consequences of the Peace, in which he further critiques and proposes modifications to the post–World War I peace settlement.
-
E.
A Fragment on Government
A Fragment on Government is an influential 1776 political treatise by Jeremy Bentham that critiques William Blackstone’s Commentaries and lays early foundations for utilitarian legal and political theory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
economic treatise
ⓘ
political pamphlet ⓘ written work ⓘ |
| advocates |
free trade of grain
ⓘ
market-determined grain prices ⓘ removal of restrictions on grain trade ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
demonstrate harms of grain trade restrictions
ⓘ
justify liberalization of grain trade ⓘ |
| associatedWith | French Enlightenment ⓘ |
| author |
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
ⓘ
surface form:
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ⓘ
surface form:
Turgot
|
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| criticizes |
mercantilist policies
ⓘ
price controls on grain ⓘ regulation of grain trade ⓘ state intervention in grain markets ⓘ |
| discusses |
famine prevention
ⓘ
food security ⓘ relationship between prices and supply ⓘ role of government in markets ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic policy
ⓘ
political economy ⓘ |
| genre |
economic literature
ⓘ
political economy ⓘ |
| hasNotableProponent |
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
ⓘ
surface form:
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
|
| historicalPeriod |
Ancien Régime
ⓘ
surface form:
Ancien Régime in France
|
| influenced |
debates on grain trade regulation in France
ⓘ
later liberal economic thought ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
physiocracy
ⓘ
surface form:
physiocrats
|
| intellectualContext | pre-Revolutionary French economic reforms ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
agricultural economics
ⓘ
economic liberalism ⓘ free trade in grain ⓘ government intervention in markets ⓘ grain trade ⓘ price controls ⓘ |
| movement |
classical liberalism
ⓘ
physiocracy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| supports |
laissez-faire economic policy
ⓘ
property rights of grain producers ⓘ |
| theoreticalBasis |
natural order in economics
ⓘ
physiocratic theory ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| translatedTitle |
Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Letter on the Freedom of the Grain Trade
|
| workType | letter ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains Description of subject: Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains is an influential 18th-century economic treatise by Turgot advocating the free trade of grain and criticizing government intervention in grain markets.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.