Triple

T5525310
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Stanley Jevons E144908 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object Jevons paradox
Jevons paradox is an economic observation that increased efficiency in using a resource can lead to higher overall consumption of that resource rather than a reduction.
E530102 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: Jevons paradox | Statement: [William Stanley Jevons, notableFor, Jevons paradox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jevons paradox
Context triple: [William Stanley Jevons, notableFor, Jevons paradox]
  • A. Kaldor–Verdoorn law
    The Kaldor–Verdoorn law is an economic principle that posits a positive relationship between the growth of output and the growth of labor productivity, often used to explain cumulative and self-reinforcing processes in industrial growth.
  • B. limits to growth
    Limits to Growth is a seminal 1972 report and concept in systems thinking that models how exponential economic and population growth can exceed the planet’s finite resources, leading to potential ecological and societal collapse.
  • C. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
    The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is a foundational work in ecological economics that applies the concept of entropy from thermodynamics to critique conventional economic theory and highlight the physical limits to economic growth.
  • D. Hicks–Kaldor compensation criterion
    The Hicks–Kaldor compensation criterion is an economic efficiency test stating that a policy change is desirable if those who gain could in principle compensate those who lose and still be better off, regardless of whether compensation actually occurs.
  • E. Pareto efficiency
    Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
  • 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: Jevons paradox
Triple: [William Stanley Jevons, notableFor, Jevons paradox]
Generated description
Jevons paradox is an economic observation that increased efficiency in using a resource can lead to higher overall consumption of that resource rather than a reduction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jevons paradox
Target entity description: Jevons paradox is an economic observation that increased efficiency in using a resource can lead to higher overall consumption of that resource rather than a reduction.
  • A. Kaldor–Verdoorn law
    The Kaldor–Verdoorn law is an economic principle that posits a positive relationship between the growth of output and the growth of labor productivity, often used to explain cumulative and self-reinforcing processes in industrial growth.
  • B. limits to growth
    Limits to Growth is a seminal 1972 report and concept in systems thinking that models how exponential economic and population growth can exceed the planet’s finite resources, leading to potential ecological and societal collapse.
  • C. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process
    The Entropy Law and the Economic Process is a foundational work in ecological economics that applies the concept of entropy from thermodynamics to critique conventional economic theory and highlight the physical limits to economic growth.
  • D. Hicks–Kaldor compensation criterion
    The Hicks–Kaldor compensation criterion is an economic efficiency test stating that a policy change is desirable if those who gain could in principle compensate those who lose and still be better off, regardless of whether compensation actually occurs.
  • E. Pareto efficiency
    Pareto efficiency is an economic concept describing an allocation of resources where no individual can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
  • 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_69c008f873a481909b4d9f7e2db3c37d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f874bd081909cccfc25767ee6fa completed March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027fa22108190b55c07fe930ca4f1 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c040a395488190bea2fd651c3aeef7 completed March 22, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04141ea408190aba1463d56ad6b7d completed March 22, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.