Triple
T4805566
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | First law of Clarke |
E106937
|
entity |
| Predicate | statement |
P4223
|
FINISHED |
| Object | When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. |
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LITERAL FINISHED |
How this triple was built (1 step)
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: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. | Statement: [First law of Clarke, statement, When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.]
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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6c678e58819094cdf18d8c5ea96f |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.