Triple

T11961483
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert C. Merton E284678 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Merton model
The Merton model is a structural credit risk framework that values a company's equity as a call option on its assets to assess default risk and price corporate debt and derivatives.
E956280 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: Merton model | Statement: [Robert C. Merton, notableWork, Merton model]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton model
Context triple: [Robert C. Merton, notableWork, Merton model]
  • A. Black–Scholes model
    The Black–Scholes model is a fundamental mathematical framework in financial economics for pricing options and other derivatives by modeling asset prices as stochastic processes.
  • B. Modigliani–Brumberg model
    The Modigliani–Brumberg model is an economic life-cycle theory explaining how individuals plan consumption and saving over their lifetimes to smooth living standards despite changing income.
  • C. Bachelier
    Bachelier was a prominent 19th-century French publishing house known for issuing influential scientific and philosophical works.
  • D. Lucas asset pricing model
    The Lucas asset pricing model is a foundational rational expectations framework in macro-finance that explains asset prices through representative-agent intertemporal consumption choices under uncertainty.
  • E. Modigliani–Miller theorem
    The Modigliani–Miller theorem is a foundational result in corporate finance stating that, under certain idealized conditions, a firm's value is unaffected by its capital structure or how it is financed.
  • 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: Merton model
Triple: [Robert C. Merton, notableWork, Merton model]
Generated description
The Merton model is a structural credit risk framework that values a company's equity as a call option on its assets to assess default risk and price corporate debt and derivatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton model
Target entity description: The Merton model is a structural credit risk framework that values a company's equity as a call option on its assets to assess default risk and price corporate debt and derivatives.
  • A. Black–Scholes model
    The Black–Scholes model is a fundamental mathematical framework in financial economics for pricing options and other derivatives by modeling asset prices as stochastic processes.
  • B. Modigliani–Brumberg model
    The Modigliani–Brumberg model is an economic life-cycle theory explaining how individuals plan consumption and saving over their lifetimes to smooth living standards despite changing income.
  • C. Bachelier
    Bachelier was a prominent 19th-century French publishing house known for issuing influential scientific and philosophical works.
  • D. Lucas asset pricing model
    The Lucas asset pricing model is a foundational rational expectations framework in macro-finance that explains asset prices through representative-agent intertemporal consumption choices under uncertainty.
  • E. Modigliani–Miller theorem
    The Modigliani–Miller theorem is a foundational result in corporate finance stating that, under certain idealized conditions, a firm's value is unaffected by its capital structure or how it is financed.
  • 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_69d6ab2eaeb881909f7914758f859413 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9037848f481908276716675464464 completed April 10, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4592fa9a48190a0450e3d0c57c4d3 completed May 1, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f4645ef63881909b46937f73d637a3 completed May 1, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f465be4db08190882898a17d077019 completed May 1, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.