Triple
T6411944
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George K. Zipf |
E127726
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Zipf's law
Zipf's law is an empirical statistical pattern observed in many natural and social phenomena, where the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table, famously seen in word usage in human languages.
|
E382868
|
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: Zipf's law | Statement: [George K. Zipf, knownFor, Zipf's law]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zipf's law Context triple: [George K. Zipf, knownFor, Zipf's law]
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A.
Szemerényi's law
Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
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B.
Newcomb–Benford law
The Newcomb–Benford law is a statistical principle stating that in many naturally occurring datasets, the leading digits are distributed logarithmically, with smaller digits (especially 1) appearing as the first digit more frequently than larger ones.
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C.
Pareto distribution
The Pareto distribution is a power-law probability distribution often used to model phenomena with heavy tails and strong inequality, such as wealth or city sizes.
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D.
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle is an economic and management concept stating that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes, often used to prioritize efforts and resources.
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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.
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: Zipf's law Triple: [George K. Zipf, knownFor, Zipf's law]
Generated description
Zipf's law is an empirical statistical pattern observed in many natural and social phenomena, where the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table, famously seen in word usage in human languages.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zipf's law Target entity description: Zipf's law is an empirical statistical pattern observed in many natural and social phenomena, where the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its rank in a frequency table, famously seen in word usage in human languages.
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A.
Szemerényi's law
Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
-
B.
Newcomb–Benford law
The Newcomb–Benford law is a statistical principle stating that in many naturally occurring datasets, the leading digits are distributed logarithmically, with smaller digits (especially 1) appearing as the first digit more frequently than larger ones.
-
C.
Pareto distribution
chosen
The Pareto distribution is a power-law probability distribution often used to model phenomena with heavy tails and strong inequality, such as wealth or city sizes.
-
D.
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle is an economic and management concept stating that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes, often used to prioritize efforts and resources.
-
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.
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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c068d228208190ba05eeb7707482fe |
completed | March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c640c48e688190981a19ce5eb2af44 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c6427c80c48190b87b9ecd1e10e78a |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:40 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c642da89a48190a2d6de237669ca8c |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:42 p.m.