Triple
T18626012
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | transaction cost economics |
E455285
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | “The Nature of the Firm” |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: “The Nature of the Firm” | Statement: [transaction cost economics, influencedBy, “The Nature of the Firm”]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Nature of the Firm” Context triple: [transaction cost economics, influencedBy, “The Nature of the Firm”]
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A.
"The Nature of the Firm"
chosen
"The Nature of the Firm" is a foundational 1937 economic essay by Ronald Coase that explains why firms exist and how transaction costs shape their size and structure.
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B.
Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm
Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm is a foundational work in organizational and contract theory that analyzes how incomplete contracts shape firm boundaries, ownership structures, and incentives.
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C.
The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration
"The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" is a seminal economics paper by Oliver Hart (with co-authors) that develops the property-rights approach to the firm, explaining how ownership and control of assets shape optimal firm boundaries and integration decisions.
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D.
The Theory of Business Enterprise
The Theory of Business Enterprise is an influential 1904 work of institutional economics in which Thorstein Veblen analyzes how profit-driven business practices can conflict with and distort the broader industrial and social interests of society.
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E.
“Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization”
“Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization” is a seminal 1972 economics paper by Armen Alchian and Harold Demsetz that analyzes how information and monitoring costs shape the structure and boundaries of firms.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38cc7948190a55ea64e5638994e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e54f04d0cc81909c3c6022c5dfdb63 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:54 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m.