Triple

T10099029
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oliver Hart E215948 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure
Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure is a seminal book in contract theory and corporate finance that analyzes how contractual arrangements shape the boundaries, governance, and capital structure of firms.
E840031 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: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure | Statement: [Oliver Hart, notableWork, Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure
Context triple: [Oliver Hart, notableWork, Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure]
  • A. Reports on the relation of corporate finance to control
    "Reports on the relation of corporate finance to control" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how financial structures and ownership patterns influence corporate power and control.
  • B. "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.
  • C. The Theory of Corporate Finance
    The Theory of Corporate Finance is a comprehensive textbook by economist Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern corporate finance theory using tools from contract theory and information economics.
  • D. Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure
    "Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure" is an economics book by Pol Antràs that analyzes how firm-level decisions, contractual frictions, and international trade costs shape the organization and geography of global production.
  • E. Reports on the relation of stock exchanges to corporate finance
    "Reports on the relation of stock exchanges to corporate finance" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how stock exchange practices affect corporate financing and economic power.
  • 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: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure
Triple: [Oliver Hart, notableWork, Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure]
Generated description
Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure is a seminal book in contract theory and corporate finance that analyzes how contractual arrangements shape the boundaries, governance, and capital structure of firms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure
Target entity description: Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure is a seminal book in contract theory and corporate finance that analyzes how contractual arrangements shape the boundaries, governance, and capital structure of firms.
  • A. Reports on the relation of corporate finance to control
    "Reports on the relation of corporate finance to control" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how financial structures and ownership patterns influence corporate power and control.
  • B. "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.
  • C. The Theory of Corporate Finance
    The Theory of Corporate Finance is a comprehensive textbook by economist Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern corporate finance theory using tools from contract theory and information economics.
  • D. Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure
    "Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure" is an economics book by Pol Antràs that analyzes how firm-level decisions, contractual frictions, and international trade costs shape the organization and geography of global production.
  • E. Reports on the relation of stock exchanges to corporate finance
    "Reports on the relation of stock exchanges to corporate finance" is an early 20th-century investigative study by the U.S. Bureau of Corporations analyzing how stock exchange practices affect corporate financing and economic power.
  • 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_69ca83a4947c8190823a7495dc5d96ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd07d686481908d9bb91392954474 completed April 2, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b6c218b08190853b0979296e2f83 completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b790cc188190b5c16c89beaa8aca completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b81e7b948190baa417186aac284b completed April 5, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:02 p.m.