Triple

T2493858
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ricardian equivalence E52108 entity
Predicate majorProponent P4951 FINISHED
Object Robert J. Barro
Robert J. Barro is a prominent American macroeconomist known for his influential work on rational expectations, public debt, and economic growth.
 E272833 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: Robert J. Barro | Statement: [Ricardian equivalence, majorProponent, Robert J. Barro]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert J. Barro
Context triple: [Ricardian equivalence, majorProponent, Robert J. Barro]
  • A. David Romer
    David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
  • B. Robert Lucas Jr.
    Robert Lucas Jr. was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for developing rational expectations theory and shaping modern macroeconomics within the Chicago School tradition.
  • C. Gregory Mankiw
    Gregory Mankiw is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconomics, particularly in developing New Keynesian theory, and for authoring widely used economics textbooks.
  • D. Edward C. Prescott
    Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
  • E. Pol Antràs
    Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
  • 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: Robert J. Barro
Triple: [Ricardian equivalence, majorProponent, Robert J. Barro]
Generated description
Robert J. Barro is a prominent American macroeconomist known for his influential work on rational expectations, public debt, and economic growth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert J. Barro
Target entity description: Robert J. Barro is a prominent American macroeconomist known for his influential work on rational expectations, public debt, and economic growth.
  • A. David Romer
    David Romer is an influential American macroeconomist known for his work on New Keynesian economics, advanced macroeconomic theory, and widely used graduate-level textbooks.
  • B. Robert Lucas Jr.
    Robert Lucas Jr. was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for developing rational expectations theory and shaping modern macroeconomics within the Chicago School tradition.
  • C. Gregory Mankiw
    Gregory Mankiw is an American economist known for his influential work in macroeconomics, particularly in developing New Keynesian theory, and for authoring widely used economics textbooks.
  • D. Edward C. Prescott
    Edward C. Prescott was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on real business cycle theory and time consistency in economic policy.
  • E. Pol Antràs
    Pol Antràs is a Spanish economist known for his influential research on international trade, global value chains, and firm organization, and for serving as a professor of economics at Harvard University.
  • 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_69ab4955111c8190835bf619adec21ff completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd193fe7881909b08768c44b15049 completed March 7, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af1f9608e48190825417943e8c4559 completed March 9, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af20aafd008190ad9fee7c154f8597 completed March 9, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af2193102c81908f5fe1c899cc1a85 completed March 9, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.