Triple

T4587059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ronald Coase E103392 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object transaction cost economics
Transaction cost economics is a branch of institutional economics that explains how and why firms and markets are structured by focusing on the costs of making economic exchanges, such as negotiating, monitoring, and enforcing contracts.
E455285 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: transaction cost economics | Statement: [Ronald Coase, knownFor, transaction cost economics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: transaction cost economics
Context triple: [Ronald Coase, knownFor, transaction cost economics]
  • A. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • B. ECN
    ECN is an electronic communication network used in financial markets to match buy and sell orders directly between participants, often outside traditional stock exchanges.
  • C. law and economics movement
    The law and economics movement is an intellectual approach to legal theory that applies economic principles and methods—especially those associated with the Chicago School—to analyze and shape laws, legal institutions, and judicial decisions.
  • D. Money, Credit and Commerce
    Money, Credit and Commerce is a major economic treatise by Alfred Marshall that analyzes the functioning of monetary systems, banking, and financial markets within the broader framework of economic theory.
  • E. The Theory of Industrial Organization
    The Theory of Industrial Organization is a foundational economics textbook by Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern industrial organization theory using game-theoretic tools.
  • 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: transaction cost economics
Triple: [Ronald Coase, knownFor, transaction cost economics]
Generated description
Transaction cost economics is a branch of institutional economics that explains how and why firms and markets are structured by focusing on the costs of making economic exchanges, such as negotiating, monitoring, and enforcing contracts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: transaction cost economics
Target entity description: Transaction cost economics is a branch of institutional economics that explains how and why firms and markets are structured by focusing on the costs of making economic exchanges, such as negotiating, monitoring, and enforcing contracts.
  • A. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • B. ECN
    ECN is an electronic communication network used in financial markets to match buy and sell orders directly between participants, often outside traditional stock exchanges.
  • C. law and economics movement
    The law and economics movement is an intellectual approach to legal theory that applies economic principles and methods—especially those associated with the Chicago School—to analyze and shape laws, legal institutions, and judicial decisions.
  • D. Money, Credit and Commerce
    Money, Credit and Commerce is a major economic treatise by Alfred Marshall that analyzes the functioning of monetary systems, banking, and financial markets within the broader framework of economic theory.
  • E. The Theory of Industrial Organization
    The Theory of Industrial Organization is a foundational economics textbook by Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern industrial organization theory using game-theoretic tools.
  • 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_69bd43dccaf08190aa89e9991a289719 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd591fc20481908d8d4b71d055ae8c completed March 20, 2026, 2:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bde0b1b014819085543bd297f925c1 completed March 21, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bde38803748190b560b0cac32be443 completed March 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bde419847c8190919ef7f7542ff20f completed March 21, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.