Triple

T13547278
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George A. Akerlof E323544 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism E1046130 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: The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism | Statement: [George A. Akerlof, knownFor, The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism
Context triple: [George A. Akerlof, knownFor, The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism]
  • A. The Market for Lemons chosen
    The Market for Lemons is a seminal 1970 economics paper that introduced the concept of information asymmetry to explain how quality uncertainty can cause markets to break down.
  • B. A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation (with Jean-Jacques Laffont)
    A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation is a foundational economics book that develops a rigorous principal–agent framework for designing optimal contracts and regulatory mechanisms in public procurement and regulated industries.
  • C. The Theory of Industrial Organization
    The Theory of Industrial Organization is a foundational economics textbook by Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern industrial organization theory using game-theoretic tools.
  • D. Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications
    Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications is a seminal 1975 book in transaction cost economics that examines how firms and markets are structured and the implications of these organizational forms for antitrust policy.
  • E. Akerlof
    Akerlof is the surname of George A. Akerlof, a Nobel Prize–winning American economist known for his work on information asymmetry and market behavior.
  • 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_69d8076776248190bdf0d4fa1f85a5fc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbafdb466881908fb46642dc66849d completed April 12, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f76bae316081909e048ead31a9575a completed May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:45 p.m.