Triple

T1814790
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John R. Hicks E40411 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Hicksian demand
Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
E204381 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: Hicksian demand | Statement: [John R. Hicks, knownFor, Hicksian demand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hicksian demand
Context triple: [John R. Hicks, knownFor, Hicksian demand]
  • A. Hotelling’s lemma
    Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
  • B. 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.
  • C. “New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility”
    “New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility” is a pioneering work in econometrics by Ragnar Frisch that develops formal techniques for empirically estimating consumers’ marginal utilities.
  • D. Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
    The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions are fundamental optimality criteria in nonlinear programming that generalize Lagrange multipliers to handle inequality constraints.
  • E. Frisch elasticity of labor supply
    The Frisch elasticity of labor supply is an economic measure that captures how responsive individuals’ labor supply is to changes in wages when their expected lifetime wealth is held constant.
  • 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: Hicksian demand
Triple: [John R. Hicks, knownFor, Hicksian demand]
Generated description
Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hicksian demand
Target entity description: Hicksian demand is a concept in microeconomics that describes how a consumer’s demand for goods changes when prices vary while holding utility (satisfaction) constant, often used in welfare and consumer theory.
  • A. Hotelling’s lemma
    Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
  • B. 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.
  • C. “New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility”
    “New Methods of Measuring Marginal Utility” is a pioneering work in econometrics by Ragnar Frisch that develops formal techniques for empirically estimating consumers’ marginal utilities.
  • D. Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions
    The Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions are fundamental optimality criteria in nonlinear programming that generalize Lagrange multipliers to handle inequality constraints.
  • E. Frisch elasticity of labor supply
    The Frisch elasticity of labor supply is an economic measure that captures how responsive individuals’ labor supply is to changes in wages when their expected lifetime wealth is held constant.
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa65f4628481909ca8e4c2302752ac completed March 6, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf5de46c8190817f67d692e98803 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc2b4d8a0819080ff41cf73417276 completed March 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc38732d8819092e0ac76354f08c1 completed March 8, 2026, 6:44 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.