Triple

T10227532
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard J. Herrnstein E243243 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Matching Law
The Matching Law is a principle in behavioral psychology stating that organisms distribute their responses among available choices in proportion to the reinforcement they receive from each option.
E851140 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 Matching Law | Statement: [Richard J. Herrnstein, notableWork, The Matching Law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Matching Law
Context triple: [Richard J. Herrnstein, notableWork, The Matching Law]
  • A. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • B. Sutton's law
    Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
  • C. Sidman avoidance procedure
    The Sidman avoidance procedure is a type of operant conditioning paradigm in which an organism learns to avoid an aversive stimulus by responding in the absence of explicit warning signals, illustrating principles of avoidance learning and temporal control.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • 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 Matching Law
Triple: [Richard J. Herrnstein, notableWork, The Matching Law]
Generated description
The Matching Law is a principle in behavioral psychology stating that organisms distribute their responses among available choices in proportion to the reinforcement they receive from each option.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Matching Law
Target entity description: The Matching Law is a principle in behavioral psychology stating that organisms distribute their responses among available choices in proportion to the reinforcement they receive from each option.
  • A. The Structure of Behavior
    The Structure of Behavior is a foundational philosophical work by Maurice Merleau-Ponty that critiques both empiricism and intellectualism while developing a phenomenological account of perception and embodied behavior.
  • B. Sutton's law
    Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
  • C. Sidman avoidance procedure
    The Sidman avoidance procedure is a type of operant conditioning paradigm in which an organism learns to avoid an aversive stimulus by responding in the absence of explicit warning signals, illustrating principles of avoidance learning and temporal control.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • 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_69d381b0f97c819085c9b45799a5fb7c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4d1fa98a48190a5caf6b6003bc14c completed April 7, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f72bc5388190a8337aa6a60ed51f completed April 9, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2bb2ec8190aa099988a6c225eb completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd10dbc08190a297073e1b737566 completed April 9, 2026, 1:12 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:17 a.m.