Triple
T18291560
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Geoffrey Brennan |
E438125
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Power to Tax |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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 Power to Tax | Statement: [Geoffrey Brennan, notableWork, The Power to Tax]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Power to Tax Context triple: [Geoffrey Brennan, notableWork, The Power to Tax]
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A.
The Power to Tax
chosen
The Power to Tax is a seminal work in public finance and constitutional political economy by Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan that analyzes taxation as a tool of potentially predatory governments and explores institutional constraints to protect taxpayers’ liberty.
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B.
The Same Subject Continued: Concerning the General Power of Taxation
"The Same Subject Continued: Concerning the General Power of Taxation" is the subtitle of Federalist No. 31, an essay by Alexander Hamilton arguing for the necessity and scope of the federal government's authority to levy taxes under the proposed U.S. Constitution.
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C.
A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System
A Treatise on the Principles and Practical Influence of Taxation and the Funding System is a 19th-century economic work by John Ramsay McCulloch that systematically analyzes taxation, public finance, and government debt and their effects on the economy.
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D.
Treatise of Taxes and Contributions
Treatise of Taxes and Contributions is a 1662 work by economist William Petty that laid early foundations for modern public finance and political economy by systematically analyzing taxation and government revenue.
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E.
On the Tax in Kind
"On the Tax in Kind" was a key 1921 Bolshevik policy document that replaced grain requisitioning with a tax in kind, marking the start of the New Economic Policy in Soviet Russia.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b914530c8190b4474d862a2b2a1b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e501000bd881909ae64ab64219bef6 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 4:21 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.