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
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.”
E1574246 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: 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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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: Betteridge’s law
Triple: [Betteridge's law of headlines, hasAlternativeName, Betteridge’s law]
Generated 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.”
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.”
  • 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.
  • 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 (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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18efbe9a08190bcb6e822b8eab544 completed April 29, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c309c3da48190b07c64b10fda58ff completed May 19, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c31dd458c8190b8e98870dd5e19c5 completed May 19, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c325f5c248190b35e2c88b384ac31 completed May 19, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.