Triple

T9303390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Bates Clark E223821 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Distribution of Wealth
The Distribution of Wealth is an influential 1899 economics book by John Bates Clark that helped establish marginal productivity theory and shaped early neoclassical views on income distribution.
E790037 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 Distribution of Wealth | Statement: [John Bates Clark, notableWork, The Distribution of Wealth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Distribution of Wealth
Context triple: [John Bates Clark, notableWork, The Distribution of Wealth]
  • A. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth
    Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth is a foundational early-20th-century treatise in institutional economics that analyzes how legal concepts of property and contract shape the distribution of income and wealth in society.
  • B. The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor
    The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor is a book by epidemiologist and public health leader William H. Foege that reflects on global health inequities and the moral imperative to address them.
  • C. The Gospel of Wealth
    The Gospel of Wealth is an 1889 essay by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that argues the rich have a moral obligation to distribute their fortunes for the benefit of society.
  • D. Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities
    "Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities" is an influential early 20th-century economic study by Hugh Dalton that analyzes the causes, measurement, and implications of income inequality in industrial societies.
  • E. The Price of Inequality
    The Price of Inequality is a book by economist Joseph Stiglitz that analyzes the causes and consequences of growing economic inequality and argues for policy reforms to create a fairer, more stable society.
  • 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 Distribution of Wealth
Triple: [John Bates Clark, notableWork, The Distribution of Wealth]
Generated description
The Distribution of Wealth is an influential 1899 economics book by John Bates Clark that helped establish marginal productivity theory and shaped early neoclassical views on income distribution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Distribution of Wealth
Target entity description: The Distribution of Wealth is an influential 1899 economics book by John Bates Clark that helped establish marginal productivity theory and shaped early neoclassical views on income distribution.
  • A. Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth
    Property and Contract in Their Relations to the Distribution of Wealth is a foundational early-20th-century treatise in institutional economics that analyzes how legal concepts of property and contract shape the distribution of income and wealth in society.
  • B. The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor
    The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor is a book by epidemiologist and public health leader William H. Foege that reflects on global health inequities and the moral imperative to address them.
  • C. The Gospel of Wealth
    The Gospel of Wealth is an 1889 essay by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that argues the rich have a moral obligation to distribute their fortunes for the benefit of society.
  • D. Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities
    "Some Aspects of the Inequality of Incomes in Modern Communities" is an influential early 20th-century economic study by Hugh Dalton that analyzes the causes, measurement, and implications of income inequality in industrial societies.
  • E. The Price of Inequality
    The Price of Inequality is a book by economist Joseph Stiglitz that analyzes the causes and consequences of growing economic inequality and argues for policy reforms to create a fairer, more stable society.
  • 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_69ca8424d0f08190831e2e93c6533aeb completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd08d4c5e48190aa8c744a158e5fbb completed April 1, 2026, noon
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b26ae3c881909e88f0253e73f0ea completed April 4, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b3ba0bd88190873816ec7e7929a7 completed April 4, 2026, 6:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b49ec4c88190a48909e7022d7e60 completed April 4, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:36 p.m.