Triple

T2037683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fred Brooks E44669 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Brooks's law
Brooks's law is the software engineering principle stating that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, highlighting the communication and coordination overhead of large teams.
E229843 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: [Fred Brooks, knownFor, Brooks's law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brooks's law
Context triple: [Fred Brooks, knownFor, Brooks's law]
  • A. Linus’s Law
    Linus’s Law is the open-source software development principle that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” emphasizing the power of many reviewers to quickly find and fix defects.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Amdahl's law
    Amdahl's law is a formula in computer architecture and parallel computing that predicts the maximum performance improvement achievable by parallelizing parts of a system, given that some portion must remain serial.
  • 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: [Fred Brooks, knownFor, Brooks's law]
Generated description
Brooks's law is the software engineering principle stating that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, highlighting the communication and coordination overhead of large teams.
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 stating that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later, highlighting the communication and coordination overhead of large teams.
  • A. Linus’s Law
    Linus’s Law is the open-source software development principle that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow,” emphasizing the power of many reviewers to quickly find and fix defects.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Amdahl's law
    Amdahl's law is a formula in computer architecture and parallel computing that predicts the maximum performance improvement achievable by parallelizing parts of a system, given that some portion must remain serial.
  • 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_69a889159ec481908f9e4472d9f480c7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb95062c481908058d6da35337680 completed March 7, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1ff63de081908795a95c998dd9ac completed March 9, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20a6ce14819098007416d6377f2e completed March 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2130ba448190b91f590a348ebf88 completed March 9, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.