Betteridge’s law
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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.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Betteridge’s law canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23154225 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.