Triple

T14264958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bob Metcalfe E353620 entity
Predicate developed P73 FINISHED
Object Metcalfe's law
Metcalfe's law is a principle of network theory stating that the value of a network grows proportionally to the square of the number of its connected users or nodes.
E1090011 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: Metcalfe's law | Statement: [Bob Metcalfe, developed, Metcalfe's law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Metcalfe's law
Context triple: [Bob Metcalfe, developed, Metcalfe's law]
  • A. Wirth’s law
    Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
  • B. Koomey's law
    Koomey's law is an empirical observation that the energy efficiency of computing—measured as computations per unit of energy—has historically doubled roughly every 1.5 years.
  • C. Zipf's law
    Zipf's law is an empirical statistical principle observing that in many datasets, such as word frequencies in natural language, the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table.
  • 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. Linus’s Law
    Linus’s Law is the open-source software development principle that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” emphasizing the power of many reviewers to quickly find and fix defects.
  • 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: Metcalfe's law
Triple: [Bob Metcalfe, developed, Metcalfe's law]
Generated description
Metcalfe's law is a principle of network theory stating that the value of a network grows proportionally to the square of the number of its connected users or nodes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Metcalfe's law
Target entity description: Metcalfe's law is a principle of network theory stating that the value of a network grows proportionally to the square of the number of its connected users or nodes.
  • A. Wirth’s law
    Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
  • B. Koomey's law
    Koomey's law is an empirical observation that the energy efficiency of computing—measured as computations per unit of energy—has historically doubled roughly every 1.5 years.
  • C. Zipf's law
    Zipf's law is an empirical statistical principle observing that in many datasets, such as word frequencies in natural language, the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table.
  • 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. Linus’s Law
    Linus’s Law is the open-source software development principle that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” emphasizing the power of many reviewers to quickly find and fix defects.
  • 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_69d8278c43e08190824146f4632b89a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de6357a8188190ba518a486521052b completed April 14, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd326367348190b4b31b32f4ca5639 completed May 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd335a496881908689b5769bb677ae completed May 8, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd3445422c8190a22eaa4bef5fdf76 completed May 8, 2026, 12:54 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:09 a.m.