Triple

T7651539
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bengt Holmström E173262 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Theory of Contracts
The Theory of Contracts is a foundational work in contract theory and economics that analyzes how optimal contracts can be designed under conditions of asymmetric information and incentive problems.
E680269 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: The Theory of Contracts | Statement: [Bengt Holmström, notableWork, The Theory of Contracts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Theory of Contracts
Context triple: [Bengt Holmström, notableWork, The Theory of Contracts]
  • A. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts
    A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts is a pioneering casebook on contract law by Christopher Columbus Langdell that helped establish the case method of legal education in American law schools.
  • B. Restatement (Second) of Contracts
    Restatement (Second) of Contracts is a highly influential legal treatise that systematically summarizes and clarifies U.S. contract law principles for courts, practitioners, and scholars.
  • C. The Essentials from the Science of Legal Theory
    The Essentials from the Science of Legal Theory is an English rendering of al-Ghazali’s seminal work in Islamic legal theory, presenting the foundational principles and methods of deriving Islamic law.
  • D. "The Nature of the Firm"
    "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.
  • E. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • 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: The Theory of Contracts
Triple: [Bengt Holmström, notableWork, The Theory of Contracts]
Generated description
The Theory of Contracts is a foundational work in contract theory and economics that analyzes how optimal contracts can be designed under conditions of asymmetric information and incentive problems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Theory of Contracts
Target entity description: The Theory of Contracts is a foundational work in contract theory and economics that analyzes how optimal contracts can be designed under conditions of asymmetric information and incentive problems.
  • A. A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts
    A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts is a pioneering casebook on contract law by Christopher Columbus Langdell that helped establish the case method of legal education in American law schools.
  • B. Restatement (Second) of Contracts
    Restatement (Second) of Contracts is a highly influential legal treatise that systematically summarizes and clarifies U.S. contract law principles for courts, practitioners, and scholars.
  • C. The Essentials from the Science of Legal Theory
    The Essentials from the Science of Legal Theory is an English rendering of al-Ghazali’s seminal work in Islamic legal theory, presenting the foundational principles and methods of deriving Islamic law.
  • D. "The Nature of the Firm"
    "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.
  • E. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • 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_69c6995473348190a4f41d110d619a18 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701770ac881909452348c9547ab47 completed March 27, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c89aeb66c081909f3a3d6385637c25 completed March 29, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c89ed393648190a32cf9267968faf5 completed March 29, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c89f35a7488190a6a9bc3d10bedd5a completed March 29, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:58 p.m.