Triple
T17797407
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gordon Tullock |
E444327
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
The Rent-Seeking Society
The Rent-Seeking Society is an influential work in public choice economics that analyzes how individuals and groups expend resources to secure economic gains through political and regulatory manipulation rather than productive activity.
|
E1288804
|
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 Rent-Seeking Society | Statement: [Gordon Tullock, notableWork, The Rent-Seeking Society]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rent-Seeking Society Context triple: [Gordon Tullock, notableWork, The Rent-Seeking Society]
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A.
The Acquisitive Society
The Acquisitive Society is a 1920 book by British social critic R. H. Tawney that offers a moral and economic critique of capitalism and argues for a more socially responsible and egalitarian economic order.
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B.
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Beyond the Invisible Hand is a book by economist Kaushik Basu that critically examines free-market ideology and argues for a more ethically grounded and institutionally aware approach to economics.
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C.
Die politische Ökonomie
Die politische Ökonomie is the original German title of a section from Karl Marx’s seminal work "Das Kapital," in which he systematically analyzes the capitalist mode of production and its economic laws.
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D.
The Logic of Collective Action
The Logic of Collective Action is a seminal work in political economy by Mancur Olson that explains why individuals often fail to act in their collective interest without selective incentives or coercive mechanisms.
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E.
The Stalled Society
The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
- 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 Rent-Seeking Society Triple: [Gordon Tullock, notableWork, The Rent-Seeking Society]
Generated description
The Rent-Seeking Society is an influential work in public choice economics that analyzes how individuals and groups expend resources to secure economic gains through political and regulatory manipulation rather than productive activity.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rent-Seeking Society Target entity description: The Rent-Seeking Society is an influential work in public choice economics that analyzes how individuals and groups expend resources to secure economic gains through political and regulatory manipulation rather than productive activity.
-
A.
The Acquisitive Society
The Acquisitive Society is a 1920 book by British social critic R. H. Tawney that offers a moral and economic critique of capitalism and argues for a more socially responsible and egalitarian economic order.
-
B.
Beyond the Invisible Hand
Beyond the Invisible Hand is a book by economist Kaushik Basu that critically examines free-market ideology and argues for a more ethically grounded and institutionally aware approach to economics.
-
C.
Die politische Ökonomie
Die politische Ökonomie is the original German title of a section from Karl Marx’s seminal work "Das Kapital," in which he systematically analyzes the capitalist mode of production and its economic laws.
-
D.
The Logic of Collective Action
The Logic of Collective Action is a seminal work in political economy by Mancur Olson that explains why individuals often fail to act in their collective interest without selective incentives or coercive mechanisms.
-
E.
The Stalled Society
The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
- 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e487fbc83481909a30fc7203b64099 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a02f83e8b88819088619e575d93ab4e |
completed | May 12, 2026, 9:51 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a02fc17b1ec81909a0547eeed8efb49 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a02fcb37b408190aac496722b75ec53 |
completed | May 12, 2026, 10:10 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m.