Triple
T1531756
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Mythical Man-Month |
E32457
|
entity |
| Predicate | proposes |
P32
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Brooks's law |
E32457
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Brooks's law | Statement: [The Mythical Man-Month, proposes, Brooks's law]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brooks's law Context triple: [The Mythical Man-Month, proposes, Brooks's law]
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A.
Cunningham's Law
Cunningham's Law is an internet adage stating that the best way to get the right answer online is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer.
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B.
Wirth’s law
Wirth’s law is the observation that software tends to become slower more quickly than hardware becomes faster, often negating the benefits of improved computing performance.
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C.
Sutton's law
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.
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D.
The Mythical Man-Month
chosen
The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
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E.
Postel’s law
Postel’s law is a design principle in computing and networking that advises systems to be conservative in what they send and liberal in what they accept, promoting robustness and interoperability.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a885ea86308190998f6bc14bb91f8e |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a90816b5e88190aa92a8558e35744b |
completed | March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad30942dc481908de85bd2ca30c0bd |
completed | March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.