Triple
T23154225
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Betteridge's law of headlines |
E578397
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasAlternativeName |
P39
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Betteridge’s law |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Betteridge’s law | Statement: [Betteridge's law of headlines, hasAlternativeName, Betteridge’s law]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betteridge’s law Context triple: [Betteridge's law of headlines, hasAlternativeName, Betteridge’s law]
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A.
Aitken’s Law
Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
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B.
Stein's Law
Stein's Law is an economic adage stating that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop, highlighting the inevitability of unsustainable trends ending.
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C.
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.
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D.
Burke's Law
Burke's Law is a 1960s American television detective series featuring Gene Barry as a wealthy, suave police captain who solves crimes with style and wit.
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E.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betteridge’s law Target entity description: Betteridge’s law is a humorous adage in journalism stating that any headline ending in a question mark can usually be answered with the word “no.”
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A.
Aitken’s Law
Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
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B.
Stein's Law
Stein's Law is an economic adage stating that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop, highlighting the inevitability of unsustainable trends ending.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Burke's Law
Burke's Law is a 1960s American television detective series featuring Gene Barry as a wealthy, suave police captain who solves crimes with style and wit.
-
E.
Lusser's law
Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18efbe9a08190bcb6e822b8eab544 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:54 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.