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Dev claim · claim-1407 · #44 of 154

““In their award winning book, ‘Taken By Storm’ (2007), Canadian researchers Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick explain: ‘Temperature is not an amount of something [like height or weight].”

Claim tags (sorted stems; highlighted when a passage shares them)

  • amount
  • award
  • book
  • canadian
  • christoph
  • essex
  • explain
  • height
  • like
  • mckitrick
  • research
  • ross
  • someth
  • storm
  • taken
  • temperatur
  • weight
  • win

Annotators’ label

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The model’s verdict

The Transformer retrained from the notebook (the 2024 weights were never saved), shown three ways. The first is how the notebook evaluated it.

Notebook protocol

Dev claims predicted in batches of 16, in file order, from the 2024 retrieved evidence, as the notebook does.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
58.3%
Refutes
21.2%
Not enough info
8.1%
Disputed
12.4%

One claim at a time

The same model run on a single claim, which is how the Try-it page runs it.

Supports✗ differs from the label
Supports
50.9%
Refutes
23.0%
Not enough info
18.0%
Disputed
8.1%

With gold evidence

Fed the human-annotated evidence instead of retrieved passages. This is the 'val accuracy' the training loop reports.

Not enough info✓ matches the label
Supports
0.9%
Refutes
0.1%
Not enough info
98.4%
Disputed
0.6%

Retrieved vs gold evidence

Gold passages were picked by the dataset’s annotators. Retrieved passages are what the TF-IDF rule returned from all 1.19M passages. Switch between the submitted 2024 output and the re-runs.

2024 submission

The passages the team actually retrieved and submitted in 2024 (their saved output file). The file records only passage ids, so scores are recomputed with the submission rule.

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  1. #1evidence-528195

    The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year 's best creative nonfiction book with a ``Canadian locale and/or significance'' that is a Canadian writer 's ``first or second published book of any type or genre''.

    • award (shared with the claim)
    • book (shared with the claim)
    • creativ
    • nonfict
    • canadian (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.573
    overlap
    0.600
    score
    1.173
    shared
    3

Gold evidence (5)

  1. evidence-25485

    Lately, the temperature criterion has fallen out of the definition across the United States Bomb cyclone – A rapid deepening of a mid-latitude cyclonic low-pressure area, typically occurring over the ocean, but can occur over land.

    • latitud
    • rapid
    • fallen
    • cyclon
    • occur
    • bomb
    • definit
    • criterion
  2. evidence-189203

    Nevertheless, a thermodynamic temperature does in fact have a definite numerical value that has been arbitrarily chosen by tradition and is dependent on the property of a particular materials; it is simply less arbitrary than relative "degrees" scales such as Celsius and Fahrenheit.

    • thermodynam
    • simpli
    • nevertheless
    • arbitrari
    • fact
    • chosen
    • fahrenheit
    • celsiu
    • particular
    • definit
  3. evidence-710700

    It has the symbol K. For everyday applications, it is often convenient to use the Celsius scale, in which 0 °C corresponds very closely to the freezing point of water and 100 °C is its boiling point at sea level.

    • scale
    • boil
    • correspond
    • everyday
    • symbol
    • celsiu
    • freez
    • conveni
    • point
  4. evidence-948988

    The most common scales are the Celsius scale (formerly called centigrade), denoted °C, the Fahrenheit scale (denoted °F), and the Kelvin scale (denoted K), the latter of which is predominantly used for scientific purposes by conventions of the International System of Units (SI).

    • denot
    • scale
    • purpo
    • latter
    • predominantli
    • celsiu
    • fahrenheit
    • convent
    • si
  5. evidence-179080

    This upper bound is called the "maximum potential intensity", v p {\displaystyle v_{p}} , and is given by v p 2 = C k C d T s − T o T o Δ k {\displaystyle v_{p}^{2}={\frac {C_{k}}{C_{d}}}{\frac {T_{s}-T_{o}}{T_{o}}}\Delta k} where T s {\displaystyle T_{s}} is the temperature of the sea surface, T o {\displaystyle T_{o}} is the temperature of the outflow ([K]), Δ k {\displaystyle \Delta k} is the enthalpy difference between the surface and the overlying air ([J/kg]), and C k {\displaystyle C_{k}} and C d {\displaystyle C_{d}} are the surface exchange coefficients (dimensionless) of enthalpy and momentum, respectively.

    • outflow
    • surfac
    • v
    • temperatur (shared with the claim)
    • overli
    • c
    • k
    • delta
    • p