Triple
T10183143
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert K. Merton |
E236835
|
entity |
| Predicate | child |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert C. Merton |
E284678
|
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: Robert C. Merton | Statement: [Robert K. Merton, child, Robert C. Merton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert C. Merton Context triple: [Robert K. Merton, child, Robert C. Merton]
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A.
Robert C. Merton
chosen
Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
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B.
James Tobin
James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
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C.
Fischer Black
Fischer Black was an American economist and financial theorist best known for co-developing the Black–Scholes option pricing model, a foundational tool in modern quantitative finance.
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D.
Myron Scholes
Myron Scholes is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Black–Scholes option pricing model, a foundational tool in modern financial economics.
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E.
Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
- 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_69ca84d7260c8190bfbec36762943f37 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cded3408b88190a7d981a6dcea48d9 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d3179b9de88190ba3beb7d6dbf7ad3 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 2:16 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:12 p.m.