Triple

T4420273
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James M. Buchanan E95079 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock was an influential economist and one of the founders of public choice theory, known for his work on rent-seeking and the economic analysis of political processes.
E444327 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: Gordon Tullock | Statement: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Gordon Tullock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Tullock
Context triple: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Gordon Tullock]
  • A. George Stigler
    George Stigler was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and the history of economic thought.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Armen Alchian
    Armen Alchian was an influential American economist known for his foundational contributions to property rights theory, the theory of the firm, and evolutionary approaches to economic behavior.
  • D. Frank Knight
    Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
  • E. Ronald Coase
    Ronald Coase was a British economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on transaction costs, property rights, and the nature of the firm, which became foundational to law and economics and the Chicago School tradition.
  • 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: Gordon Tullock
Triple: [James M. Buchanan, coAuthor, Gordon Tullock]
Generated description
Gordon Tullock was an influential economist and one of the founders of public choice theory, known for his work on rent-seeking and the economic analysis of political processes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gordon Tullock
Target entity description: Gordon Tullock was an influential economist and one of the founders of public choice theory, known for his work on rent-seeking and the economic analysis of political processes.
  • A. George Stigler
    George Stigler was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on industrial organization, the economics of regulation, and the history of economic thought.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Armen Alchian
    Armen Alchian was an influential American economist known for his foundational contributions to property rights theory, the theory of the firm, and evolutionary approaches to economic behavior.
  • D. Frank Knight
    Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
  • E. Ronald Coase
    Ronald Coase was a British economist and Nobel laureate best known for his work on transaction costs, property rights, and the nature of the firm, which became foundational to law and economics and the Chicago School tradition.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3551fae7c8190abafda0d78f02d89 completed March 13, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b650e656148190be51f790dc3d5f4d completed March 15, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b652473e588190b118e33aae859d17 completed March 15, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b652ed79d88190811e98f133010b2a completed March 15, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.