Triple

T7329728
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wirth’s law E168966 entity
Predicate relatedTo P37 FINISHED
Object Parkinson’s law of triviality
Parkinson’s law of triviality is the adage that people in organizations tend to give disproportionate attention and time to trivial issues while neglecting more important, complex matters.
E656396 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: Parkinson’s law of triviality | Statement: [Wirth’s law, relatedTo, Parkinson’s law of triviality]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parkinson’s law of triviality
Context triple: [Wirth’s law, relatedTo, Parkinson’s law of triviality]
  • A. The Dilbert Principle
    The Dilbert Principle is a satirical business book that critiques corporate management and workplace culture, expanding on themes from the Dilbert comic strip.
  • B. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • C. Drucker stability postulate
    The Drucker stability postulate is a fundamental criterion in plasticity theory that asserts materials must not exhibit negative incremental work, ensuring stable and physically realistic material behavior under loading.
  • D. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
    The Bureaucratic Phenomenon is a seminal sociological study by Michel Crozier that analyzes how bureaucratic organizations function, resist change, and generate dysfunctions within modern society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Parkinson’s law of triviality
Triple: [Wirth’s law, relatedTo, Parkinson’s law of triviality]
Generated description
Parkinson’s law of triviality is the adage that people in organizations tend to give disproportionate attention and time to trivial issues while neglecting more important, complex matters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Parkinson’s law of triviality
Target entity description: Parkinson’s law of triviality is the adage that people in organizations tend to give disproportionate attention and time to trivial issues while neglecting more important, complex matters.
  • A. The Dilbert Principle
    The Dilbert Principle is a satirical business book that critiques corporate management and workplace culture, expanding on themes from the Dilbert comic strip.
  • B. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • C. Drucker stability postulate
    The Drucker stability postulate is a fundamental criterion in plasticity theory that asserts materials must not exhibit negative incremental work, ensuring stable and physically realistic material behavior under loading.
  • D. The Bureaucratic Phenomenon
    The Bureaucratic Phenomenon is a seminal sociological study by Michel Crozier that analyzes how bureaucratic organizations function, resist change, and generate dysfunctions within modern society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69c68a54cacc81908e3b773441f19566 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f0a9c0f081909218560d8a4f4995 completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ef16f35881909fffba1df072f0d6 completed March 28, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ef9665748190bddc45f234af7a7b completed March 28, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7f02f95508190a7b323f3f94e4a0f completed March 28, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:03 p.m.