Triple

T1531782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mythical Man-Month E32457 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object Brooks's law
Brooks's law is the software engineering principle that adding more people to a late project only makes it later, due to increased communication and coordination overhead.
E32457 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: Brooks's law | Statement: [The Mythical Man-Month, notableIdea, 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, notableIdea, Brooks's law]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • D. The Mythical Man-Month
    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.
  • 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. 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: Brooks's law
Triple: [The Mythical Man-Month, notableIdea, Brooks's law]
Generated description
Brooks's law is the software engineering principle that adding more people to a late project only makes it later, due to increased communication and coordination overhead.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brooks's law
Target entity description: Brooks's law is the software engineering principle that adding more people to a late project only makes it later, due to increased communication and coordination overhead.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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_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_69ad3706935481909455528b1bc4ce6c completed March 8, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad38a26fb481908a4dbfd855a95b86 completed March 8, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad39c0b0188190ad49ff69ac88eb88 completed March 8, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.