Triple

T1217012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ray Kurzweil E26127 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object law of accelerating returns
The law of accelerating returns is Ray Kurzweil’s futurist principle that technological progress, especially in information technologies, grows at an exponential rate, leading to ever-faster and more transformative change over time.
E32615 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: law of accelerating returns | Statement: [Ray Kurzweil, notableIdea, law of accelerating returns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: law of accelerating returns
Context triple: [Ray Kurzweil, notableIdea, law of accelerating returns]
  • A. Great Acceleration
    The Great Acceleration is the post–World War II surge in human population, economic activity, and resource use that has dramatically intensified human impacts on Earth’s environment and climate.
  • B. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
    "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" is a historical and economic analysis that examines how technological advances have shaped inequality, political power, and shared prosperity over the past millennium.
  • C. The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
    The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
  • D. Kardashev scale
    The Kardashev scale is a theoretical framework that classifies civilizations by the amount of energy they can harness and use, ranging from planetary to galactic levels.
  • E. Moore's law
    Moore's law is an observation and prediction that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit—and thus computing power—tends to roughly double at regular intervals, driving exponential growth in digital technology.
  • 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: law of accelerating returns
Triple: [Ray Kurzweil, notableIdea, law of accelerating returns]
Generated description
The law of accelerating returns is Ray Kurzweil’s futurist principle that technological progress, especially in information technologies, grows at an exponential rate, leading to ever-faster and more transformative change over time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: law of accelerating returns
Target entity description: The law of accelerating returns is Ray Kurzweil’s futurist principle that technological progress, especially in information technologies, grows at an exponential rate, leading to ever-faster and more transformative change over time.
  • A. Great Acceleration
    The Great Acceleration is the post–World War II surge in human population, economic activity, and resource use that has dramatically intensified human impacts on Earth’s environment and climate.
  • B. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
    "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity" is a historical and economic analysis that examines how technological advances have shaped inequality, political power, and shared prosperity over the past millennium.
  • C. The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
    The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
  • D. Kardashev scale
    The Kardashev scale is a theoretical framework that classifies civilizations by the amount of energy they can harness and use, ranging from planetary to galactic levels.
  • E. Moore's law chosen
    Moore's law is an observation and prediction that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit—and thus computing power—tends to roughly double at regular intervals, driving exponential growth in digital technology.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a4948331fc8190b531ac9bec71c491 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be06d6308190a44c505e6b5e8d42 completed March 1, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac831fb6bc8190907f36e52489ec5c completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac839076708190882fe59c80bd3e7e completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84092f088190894b3ca2a268e5c1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.