Triple

T6429884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Willie Sutton E128152 entity
Predicate subjectOf P38 FINISHED
Object Sutton’s law E128156 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Sutton’s law | Statement: [Willie Sutton, subjectOf, Sutton’s law]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sutton’s law
Context triple: [Willie Sutton, subjectOf, Sutton’s law]
  • A. Sutton's law chosen
    Sutton's law is a medical and diagnostic principle that advises focusing first on the most likely cause of a problem, echoing bank robber Willie Sutton’s apocryphal rationale for targeting banks.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • 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. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c00838de888190af2eec0b80495efa elicitation completed
NER batch_69c06923b12081908a09543450b88c24 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c640e9ae8481909229bcf6d5e793d3 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:44 p.m.