Triple

T13755012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Democracy: The God That Failed E330452 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization
"On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization" is an essay by Hans-Hermann Hoppe that argues how democratic political structures raise societal time preference, thereby undermining long-term capital formation and contributing to social and moral decline.
E1060529 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: On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization | Statement: [Democracy: The God That Failed, hasPart, On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization
Context triple: [Democracy: The God That Failed, hasPart, On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization]
  • A. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • B. The Politics of Prudence
    The Politics of Prudence is a collection of essays by conservative thinker Russell Kirk that articulates and defends the principles of traditionalist conservatism in modern political life.
  • C. The Cost-Benefit Revolution
    The Cost-Benefit Revolution is a book by legal scholar Cass Sunstein that argues for the central role of cost-benefit analysis in modern regulation and public policy.
  • D. Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life
    "Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life" is a scholarly book by Nikolas Rose (with Peter Miller) that analyzes how contemporary forms of governance shape economic, social, and individual life through dispersed, everyday practices and rationalities.
  • E. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
    The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities is a seminal economic and political analysis by Mancur Olson that explains how the accumulation of interest groups and institutional rigidities can hinder long-term economic growth and contribute to stagnation.
  • 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: On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization
Triple: [Democracy: The God That Failed, hasPart, On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization]
Generated description
"On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization" is an essay by Hans-Hermann Hoppe that argues how democratic political structures raise societal time preference, thereby undermining long-term capital formation and contributing to social and moral decline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization
Target entity description: "On Time Preference, Government, and the Process of Decivilization" is an essay by Hans-Hermann Hoppe that argues how democratic political structures raise societal time preference, thereby undermining long-term capital formation and contributing to social and moral decline.
  • A. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • B. The Politics of Prudence
    The Politics of Prudence is a collection of essays by conservative thinker Russell Kirk that articulates and defends the principles of traditionalist conservatism in modern political life.
  • C. The Cost-Benefit Revolution
    The Cost-Benefit Revolution is a book by legal scholar Cass Sunstein that argues for the central role of cost-benefit analysis in modern regulation and public policy.
  • D. Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life
    "Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life" is a scholarly book by Nikolas Rose (with Peter Miller) that analyzes how contemporary forms of governance shape economic, social, and individual life through dispersed, everyday practices and rationalities.
  • E. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
    The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities is a seminal economic and political analysis by Mancur Olson that explains how the accumulation of interest groups and institutional rigidities can hinder long-term economic growth and contribute to stagnation.
  • 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_69d81c573f288190aa2403d484fa3d49 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de02179c948190a652cc8c586e418f completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7a859e6748190aa1899830a02b710 completed May 3, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7a91deb3c8190ad2be7f1ca99ac9b completed May 3, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7ad51c6808190afa80fc3622399bf completed May 3, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:09 p.m.