Triple

T19582874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress E490038 entity
Predicate hasMotto P42 FINISHED
Object TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," a libertarian slogan popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* to express the idea that everything has a cost.
E1385714 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: TANSTAAFL | Statement: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, hasMotto, TANSTAAFL]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: TANSTAAFL
Context triple: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, hasMotto, TANSTAAFL]
  • A. Takas
    Takas is a dialect of the Mwaghavul language spoken by a subgroup of the Mwaghavul people in Nigeria’s Plateau State.
  • B. Laffer
    Laffer is a surname most prominently associated with Arthur Laffer, the American economist known for the Laffer curve concept in supply-side economics.
  • C. Thaler
    The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
  • D. Kluge's law
    Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
  • E. Lenzsche Regel
    Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
  • 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: TANSTAAFL
Triple: [The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, hasMotto, TANSTAAFL]
Generated description
TANSTAAFL is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," a libertarian slogan popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* to express the idea that everything has a cost.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: TANSTAAFL
Target entity description: TANSTAAFL is an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," a libertarian slogan popularized by Robert A. Heinlein’s novel *The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress* to express the idea that everything has a cost.
  • A. Takas
    Takas is a dialect of the Mwaghavul language spoken by a subgroup of the Mwaghavul people in Nigeria’s Plateau State.
  • B. Laffer
    Laffer is a surname most prominently associated with Arthur Laffer, the American economist known for the Laffer curve concept in supply-side economics.
  • C. Thaler
    The Thaler was a large silver coin and monetary unit widely used across various German states and parts of Europe from the 16th to 19th centuries, serving as a precursor to the modern dollar.
  • D. Kluge's law
    Kluge's law is a proposed sound law in Proto-Germanic historical linguistics that explains the development of certain geminate consonants from earlier consonant clusters.
  • E. Lenzsche Regel
    Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
  • 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_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6404f34b081908aeb9cc9a5ddf539 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a075f0f48b88190874f8cada3ed053d completed May 15, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07601bb12c81909faab959182b1863 completed May 15, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07613541688190821fd97e069691a5 completed May 15, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.