Triple

T1054611
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jon Postel E22773 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Postel’s law
Postel’s law is a design principle in computing and networking that advises systems to be conservative in what they send and liberal in what they accept, promoting robustness and interoperability.
E121260 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: Postel’s law | Statement: [Jon Postel, knownFor, Postel’s law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postel’s law
Context triple: [Jon Postel, knownFor, Postel’s law]
  • A. Occam's razor
    Occam's razor is a philosophical and scientific principle that advises preferring the simplest explanation that adequately accounts for all observed facts.
  • B. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
    Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is a seminal book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that explores how software code functions as a form of regulation shaping behavior and governance in the digital world.
  • C. Rule 41
    Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
  • D. Clarke's three laws
    Clarke's three laws are a set of aphorisms about science and technology, most famously stating that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  • E. Leacock-Pennebaker
    Leacock-Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for its influential cinéma vérité works in the 1960s.
  • 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: Postel’s law
Triple: [Jon Postel, knownFor, Postel’s law]
Generated description
Postel’s law is a design principle in computing and networking that advises systems to be conservative in what they send and liberal in what they accept, promoting robustness and interoperability.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Postel’s law
Target entity description: Postel’s law is a design principle in computing and networking that advises systems to be conservative in what they send and liberal in what they accept, promoting robustness and interoperability.
  • A. Occam's razor
    Occam's razor is a philosophical and scientific principle that advises preferring the simplest explanation that adequately accounts for all observed facts.
  • B. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
    Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace is a seminal book by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig that explores how software code functions as a form of regulation shaping behavior and governance in the digital world.
  • C. Rule 41
    Rule 41 is a provision of the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that governs the voluntary and involuntary dismissal of civil actions in federal court.
  • D. Clarke's three laws
    Clarke's three laws are a set of aphorisms about science and technology, most famously stating that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  • E. Leacock-Pennebaker
    Leacock-Pennebaker was a pioneering American documentary film production company known for its influential cinéma vérité works in the 1960s.
  • 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_69a493da02e081908c13ff5e02a0fe7a completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8d79268819080f3f3f497e91c58 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bd110ac8190b66163de42bd3034 completed March 7, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3d4b32348190883244f2b8af32a0 completed March 7, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3dbf5c70819084a942fc97a9b50f completed March 7, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.