Triple

T2000424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Bates Clark Medal E43456 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object James Tobin
James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
E223823 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: James Tobin | Statement: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, James Tobin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Tobin
Context triple: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, James Tobin]
  • A. Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
  • B. Eugene Fama
    Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
  • C. Hyman Minsky
    Hyman Minsky was an American economist best known for his financial instability hypothesis, which explains how periods of economic stability can lead to speculative excess and ultimately financial crises.
  • D. Arnold Harberger
    Arnold Harberger is an influential American economist known for his work on welfare economics, cost-benefit analysis, and the measurement of deadweight loss, and as a prominent figure of the Chicago School of economics.
  • E. Irving Fisher
    Irving Fisher was an influential American economist and statistician known for his pioneering work in interest theory, capital theory, and the development of modern economic and econometric analysis.
  • 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: James Tobin
Triple: [John Bates Clark Medal, notableRecipient, James Tobin]
Generated description
James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Tobin
Target entity description: James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
  • A. Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
  • B. Eugene Fama
    Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
  • C. Hyman Minsky
    Hyman Minsky was an American economist best known for his financial instability hypothesis, which explains how periods of economic stability can lead to speculative excess and ultimately financial crises.
  • D. Arnold Harberger
    Arnold Harberger is an influential American economist known for his work on welfare economics, cost-benefit analysis, and the measurement of deadweight loss, and as a prominent figure of the Chicago School of economics.
  • E. Irving Fisher
    Irving Fisher was an influential American economist and statistician known for his pioneering work in interest theory, capital theory, and the development of modern economic and econometric analysis.
  • 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_69a88715dbbc8190b2299e29e955d997 completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb87f78f0819098e787a5f3e062fd completed March 7, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae034122ec819096a72685b34c84b9 completed March 8, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03b5e294819093b20fdc95f653db completed March 8, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0475dd448190939620c5400eea16 completed March 8, 2026, 11:21 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.