Triple
T451039
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | An Essay on the Principle of Population |
E7128
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyConcept |
P531
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Malthusian trap |
E5962
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Malthusian trap | Statement: [An Essay on the Principle of Population, keyConcept, Malthusian trap]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malthusian trap Context triple: [An Essay on the Principle of Population, keyConcept, Malthusian trap]
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A.
Malthusian catastrophe
chosen
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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B.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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C.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
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D.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
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E.
Ricardian rent
Ricardian rent is an economic concept describing the extra income earned from land or other fixed resources due to their superior productivity compared to the least productive (marginal) resources in use.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ef835ae881908884dcc3a46af951 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a44801b3f88190b8bd4b4739c3e783 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.