Triple

T2631241
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black–Scholes model E59634 entity
Predicate developedBy P73 FINISHED
Object Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
 E284678 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 C. Merton | Statement: [Black–Scholes model, developedBy, Robert C. Merton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert C. Merton
Context triple: [Black–Scholes model, developedBy, Robert C. Merton]
  • A. James Tobin
    James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
  • B. Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
  • C. Lawrence Klein
    Lawrence Klein was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in developing econometric models for forecasting economic trends.
  • D. Eugene Fama
    Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
  • E. Kenneth Arrow
    Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
  • 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 C. Merton
Triple: [Black–Scholes model, developedBy, Robert C. Merton]
Generated description
Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert C. Merton
Target entity description: Robert C. Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics and the mathematical modeling of derivatives.
  • A. James Tobin
    James Tobin was an influential American economist and Nobel laureate known for his work on portfolio selection theory, monetary economics, and the proposal of the "Tobin tax" on financial transactions.
  • B. Franco Modigliani
    Franco Modigliani was an Italian-American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the life-cycle hypothesis of saving and the Modigliani–Miller theorem in corporate finance.
  • C. Lawrence Klein
    Lawrence Klein was an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in developing econometric models for forecasting economic trends.
  • D. Eugene Fama
    Eugene Fama is an American economist renowned as a leading figure in the Chicago School and a pioneer of modern finance, particularly for his work on efficient markets and asset pricing.
  • E. Kenneth Arrow
    Kenneth Arrow was a Nobel Prize–winning American economist renowned for his foundational contributions to social choice theory and general equilibrium economics.
  • 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_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8c567408190b94ff047efa4bc06 completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af90a7021081909f81c4ddb48fa00c completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9172ba248190bbc68a00b43d9b44 completed March 10, 2026, 3:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af92500920819082c651f75a06dd72 completed March 10, 2026, 3:38 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.