Triple

T1762689
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harold Hotelling E38691 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Hotelling’s law
Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
E196773 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: Hotelling’s law | Statement: [Harold Hotelling, notableWork, Hotelling’s law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotelling’s law
Context triple: [Harold Hotelling, notableWork, Hotelling’s law]
  • A. Species Packing and Competitive Equilibrium for Many Species
    "Species Packing and Competitive Equilibrium for Many Species" is a foundational ecological theory paper that analyzes how numerous species can coexist by partitioning resources and reaching competitive equilibrium within shared environments.
  • B. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • C. Pareto efficiency
    Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
  • D. Sutton's law
    Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
  • E. On Equilibrium
    On Equilibrium is a philosophical work by John Ralston Saul that explores the importance of balancing key human qualities—such as reason, ethics, and common sense—to create a more humane and democratic society.
  • 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: Hotelling’s law
Triple: [Harold Hotelling, notableWork, Hotelling’s law]
Generated description
Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotelling’s law
Target entity description: Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
  • A. Species Packing and Competitive Equilibrium for Many Species
    "Species Packing and Competitive Equilibrium for Many Species" is a foundational ecological theory paper that analyzes how numerous species can coexist by partitioning resources and reaching competitive equilibrium within shared environments.
  • B. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • C. Pareto efficiency
    Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
  • D. Sutton's law
    Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
  • E. On Equilibrium
    On Equilibrium is a philosophical work by John Ralston Saul that explores the importance of balancing key human qualities—such as reason, ethics, and common sense—to create a more humane and democratic society.
  • 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_69a8862d562481908d7025a1c1f67c0d completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6465245c8190b1ee84628c62c529 completed March 6, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada0f12fd8819099759ebcdfc19494 completed March 8, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ada1e3587c8190bca329c68ff31c41 completed March 8, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ada2977bfc8190ad028e17184fccaa completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.