Triple
T8359593
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Harold Hotelling |
E196771
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hotelling's law |
E196773
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Hotelling's law | Statement: [Harold Hotelling, knownFor, Hotelling's law]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotelling's law Context triple: [Harold Hotelling, knownFor, Hotelling's law]
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A.
Hotelling’s law
chosen
Hotelling’s law is an economic principle that explains why competing businesses or political candidates tend to cluster together by choosing similar locations or positions to maximize their share of consumers or voters.
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B.
Hotelling’s lemma
Hotelling’s lemma is a result in microeconomics that links a firm’s profit function to its supply and factor demand functions via partial derivatives.
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C.
Hotelling
Hotelling is a surname most notably associated with Harold Hotelling, an influential American statistician and economist known for Hotelling's law and contributions to multivariate analysis.
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D.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
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E.
Law of the Maximum
The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca82f08b348190bfb7881944bbff6f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb807134008190b4671326e0414210 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 8:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cdc76d49c881909e8e93b8f7d940df |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6 p.m.