Triple

T4958146
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franco Modigliani E111336 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object life-cycle income hypothesis
The life-cycle income hypothesis is an economic theory proposing that individuals plan their consumption and saving behavior over their lifetime to smooth consumption, based on expected lifetime income rather than current income.
E483087 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: life-cycle income hypothesis | Statement: [Franco Modigliani, notableIdea, life-cycle income hypothesis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: life-cycle income hypothesis
Context triple: [Franco Modigliani, notableIdea, life-cycle income hypothesis]
  • A. permanent income hypothesis
    The permanent income hypothesis is an economic theory, associated with Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, which posits that individuals base their consumption decisions on expected long-term average income rather than current income.
  • B. A Theory of the Consumption Function
    A Theory of the Consumption Function is Milton Friedman’s influential 1957 economics book that introduced the permanent income hypothesis to explain household consumption behavior over time.
  • C. Ricardian equivalence
    Ricardian equivalence is an economic theory proposing that consumers anticipate future taxes implied by government borrowing and therefore adjust their saving so that deficit-financed tax cuts do not affect overall demand.
  • D. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • E. Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model
    The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model is a foundational neoclassical growth model in macroeconomics that analyzes optimal savings, consumption, and capital accumulation over time in a perfectly competitive economy.
  • 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: life-cycle income hypothesis
Triple: [Franco Modigliani, notableIdea, life-cycle income hypothesis]
Generated description
The life-cycle income hypothesis is an economic theory proposing that individuals plan their consumption and saving behavior over their lifetime to smooth consumption, based on expected lifetime income rather than current income.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: life-cycle income hypothesis
Target entity description: The life-cycle income hypothesis is an economic theory proposing that individuals plan their consumption and saving behavior over their lifetime to smooth consumption, based on expected lifetime income rather than current income.
  • A. permanent income hypothesis
    The permanent income hypothesis is an economic theory, associated with Milton Friedman and the Chicago School, which posits that individuals base their consumption decisions on expected long-term average income rather than current income.
  • B. A Theory of the Consumption Function
    A Theory of the Consumption Function is Milton Friedman’s influential 1957 economics book that introduced the permanent income hypothesis to explain household consumption behavior over time.
  • C. Ricardian equivalence
    Ricardian equivalence is an economic theory proposing that consumers anticipate future taxes implied by government borrowing and therefore adjust their saving so that deficit-financed tax cuts do not affect overall demand.
  • D. Fisherian intertemporal choice theory
    Fisherian intertemporal choice theory is an economic framework, developed by Irving Fisher, that explains how rational individuals allocate consumption and savings over time to maximize lifetime utility given their income, preferences, and interest rates.
  • E. Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model
    The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans model is a foundational neoclassical growth model in macroeconomics that analyzes optimal savings, consumption, and capital accumulation over time in a perfectly competitive economy.
  • 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_69bd4418390c8190b7e9766a2512ce55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd71d834c0819087f3faafdc9b4228 completed March 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be81e144a08190b66bf07e09b6ff55 completed March 21, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be83b10e048190889289ac2ca9f07f completed March 21, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be843e2e50819099b2b73498c7c16e completed March 21, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:32 p.m.