Triple
T9986238
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hotelling’s law |
E196773
|
entity |
| Predicate | basedOn |
P98
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hotelling’s linear city model |
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 linear city model | Statement: [Hotelling’s law, basedOn, Hotelling’s linear city model]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hotelling’s linear city model Context triple: [Hotelling’s law, basedOn, Hotelling’s linear city model]
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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.
The Theory of Industrial Organization
The Theory of Industrial Organization is a foundational economics textbook by Jean Tirole that systematically develops modern industrial organization theory using game-theoretic tools.
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C.
Reports on the relation of transportation to industrial concentration
"Reports on the relation of transportation to industrial concentration" is an early 20th-century investigative study analyzing how transportation systems influenced the growth and concentration of industry in the United States.
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D.
Theory of the Location of Industries
Theory of the Location of Industries is a foundational work in economic geography that develops a model explaining how firms choose industrial locations to minimize costs such as transportation, labor, and agglomeration.
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E.
Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications
Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications is a seminal 1975 book in transaction cost economics that examines how firms and markets are structured and the implications of these organizational forms for antitrust policy.
- 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_69ca82f1678c819093d06320a05f16a4 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdc79af13c81909349ae0b0d5da946 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 1:34 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d258078488819086a58db79075e2b9 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 12:39 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:49 p.m.