Triple

T21137820
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herb Stein E520857 entity
Predicate notableFor P22 FINISHED
Object 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.
E1468461 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: Stein's Law | Statement: [Herb Stein, notableFor, Stein's Law]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stein's Law
Context triple: [Herb Stein, notableFor, Stein's Law]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sturgeon's Law
    Sturgeon's Law is an adage stating that "ninety percent of everything is crap," highlighting the prevalence of low-quality work in any field.
  • 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. Lenzsche Regel
    Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
  • 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: Stein's Law
Triple: [Herb Stein, notableFor, Stein's Law]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stein's Law
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Sturgeon's Law
    Sturgeon's Law is an adage stating that "ninety percent of everything is crap," highlighting the prevalence of low-quality work in any field.
  • 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. Lenzsche Regel
    Lenzsche Regel ist ein grundlegendes Gesetz der Elektrodynamik, das die Richtung induzierter Ströme so festlegt, dass sie der Ursache ihrer Entstehung entgegenwirken.
  • 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_69e0b50b53048190ae34e8abbe3c5ada completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e7235b89188190a6209c0a1839ee03 completed April 21, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0965f556d881909652d21a62b10874 completed May 17, 2026, 6:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0966f894d48190b6841c35a9aab417 completed May 17, 2026, 6:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a096adfd4248190a26c513278e7b334 completed May 17, 2026, 7:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:57 p.m.