Triple

T4329672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Coase theorem E96716 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object The Problem of Social Cost
The Problem of Social Cost is Ronald Coase’s landmark 1960 law-and-economics article that introduced the analysis of externalities and bargaining that underpins what later became known as the Coase theorem.
E434107 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: The Problem of Social Cost | Statement: [Coase theorem, relatedTo, The Problem of Social Cost]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Problem of Social Cost
Context triple: [Coase theorem, relatedTo, The Problem of Social Cost]
  • A. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • B. The Economics of Welfare
    The Economics of Welfare is a foundational 1920 economics treatise by Arthur Cecil Pigou that systematically develops welfare economics and the concept of externalities to analyze the role of government in correcting market failures.
  • C. The Economics and Ethics of Private Property
    The Economics and Ethics of Private Property is a libertarian treatise by Hans-Hermann Hoppe that defends private property, free markets, and anarcho-capitalism through praxeological and ethical arguments.
  • D. The Theory and Measurement of Demand
    The Theory and Measurement of Demand is a foundational economics book by Henry Schultz that rigorously develops statistical and mathematical methods for estimating consumer demand.
  • E. The Scope and Method of Economic Science
    The Scope and Method of Economic Science is a foundational work in economic methodology that examines the proper aims, limits, and scientific status of economics as a discipline.
  • 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: The Problem of Social Cost
Triple: [Coase theorem, relatedTo, The Problem of Social Cost]
Generated description
The Problem of Social Cost is Ronald Coase’s landmark 1960 law-and-economics article that introduced the analysis of externalities and bargaining that underpins what later became known as the Coase theorem.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Problem of Social Cost
Target entity description: The Problem of Social Cost is Ronald Coase’s landmark 1960 law-and-economics article that introduced the analysis of externalities and bargaining that underpins what later became known as the Coase theorem.
  • A. Coase theorem
    The Coase theorem is an economic theory stating that if property rights are well-defined and transaction costs are negligible, private bargaining will lead to an efficient allocation of resources regardless of the initial assignment of rights.
  • B. The Economics of Welfare
    The Economics of Welfare is a foundational 1920 economics treatise by Arthur Cecil Pigou that systematically develops welfare economics and the concept of externalities to analyze the role of government in correcting market failures.
  • C. The Economics and Ethics of Private Property
    The Economics and Ethics of Private Property is a libertarian treatise by Hans-Hermann Hoppe that defends private property, free markets, and anarcho-capitalism through praxeological and ethical arguments.
  • D. The Theory and Measurement of Demand
    The Theory and Measurement of Demand is a foundational economics book by Henry Schultz that rigorously develops statistical and mathematical methods for estimating consumer demand.
  • E. The Scope and Method of Economic Science
    The Scope and Method of Economic Science is a foundational work in economic methodology that examines the proper aims, limits, and scientific status of economics as a discipline.
  • 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_69b34542fd908190b11b08faad8decfd completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3513545fc81909e29de7eae1829f7 completed March 12, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5db98ae888190aac5b5b7839ae7dd completed March 14, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5dc3d81a08190b29b633009fab4ff completed March 14, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e04f356c81909e3f6f2c865e0f99 completed March 14, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:13 p.m.