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Dev claim · claim-141 · #93 of 154

“Greenpeace didn’t save the whales, switching from whale oil to petroleum and palm oil did”

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

  • greenpeac
  • oil
  • oil
  • palm
  • petroleum
  • save
  • switch
  • whale
  • whale

Annotators’ label

Not enough info Run this claim live

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.

Not enough info✓ matches the label
Supports
3.4%
Refutes
0.6%
Not enough info
93.8%
Disputed
2.1%

One claim at a time

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

Not enough info✓ matches the label
Supports
16.3%
Refutes
2.8%
Not enough info
66.3%
Disputed
14.6%

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
3.8%
Refutes
0.7%
Not enough info
93.2%
Disputed
2.4%

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.

Path
not recorded
Found
1 of 5 gold
P
0.17
R
0.20
F
0.18
  1. #1evidence-178784

    It was an oil palm plantation owned by Sime Derby Plantations.

    • palm (shared with the claim)
    • plantat
    • derbi
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    cos
    1.000
    overlap
    0.500
    score
    1.500
    shared
    2
  2. #2evidence-276644

    and Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks.

    • keeper
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    cos
    1.000
    overlap
    0.500
    score
    1.500
    shared
    1
  3. #3evidence-917144 gold evidence

    Greenpeace is also calling Wilmar out for breaking the commitment to end deforestation policy signed by Wilmar in December 2013 where they promise to incorporate organic and sustainable ways to collect palm oil.

    • incorpor
    • break
    • deforest
    • greenpeac (shared with the claim)
    • commit
    • promi
    • palm (shared with the claim)
    • sustain
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    cos
    1.000
    overlap
    0.429
    score
    1.429
    shared
    3
  4. #4evidence-495706

    at 6% and oil at 4%.

    • محمد
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.925
    overlap
    0.500
    score
    1.425
    shared
    1
  5. #5evidence-503665

    Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between 17 and of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period of several decades.

    • petroleum (shared with the claim)
    • crude
    • brooklyn
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    • leak
    cos
    1.000
    overlap
    0.400
    score
    1.400
    shared
    2
  6. #6evidence-667396

    Oil companies also participated with Dick Cheney's task force in a discussion of Iraqi oilfields, refineries and other energy infrastructure, and two charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents are dated two years before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and six months before the September 11 attacks (9/11).

    • refineri
    • iraqi
    • oil (shared with the claim)
    cos
    1.000
    overlap
    0.333
    score
    1.333
    shared
    1

Gold evidence (5)

  1. evidence-51845

    Greenpeace is also critical of extracting petroleum from oil sands and has used direct action to block operations at the Athabasca oil sands in Canada.

    • block
    • petroleum (shared with the claim)
    • sand
    • action
    • extract
    • greenpeac (shared with the claim)
    • direct
    • critic
    • canada
    • oil (shared with the claim)
  2. evidence-1025353

    Another Greenpeace movement concerning the rain forests is discouraging palm oil industries.

    • anoth
    • forest
    • industri
    • greenpeac (shared with the claim)
    • movement
    • discourag
    • concern
    • palm (shared with the claim)
    • rain
    • oil (shared with the claim)
  3. evidence-917144

    Greenpeace is also calling Wilmar out for breaking the commitment to end deforestation policy signed by Wilmar in December 2013 where they promise to incorporate organic and sustainable ways to collect palm oil.

    • incorpor
    • break
    • deforest
    • greenpeac (shared with the claim)
    • commit
    • promi
    • palm (shared with the claim)
    • sustain
    • oil (shared with the claim)
  4. evidence-426684

    Brands cannot let this deception pass unchallenged and have no choice but to suspend all business with Wilmar until it can prove it only trades clean palm oil from responsible producers."

    • decept
    • palm (shared with the claim)
    • prove
    • trade
    • suspend
    • brand
    • let
    • choic
    • clean
    • oil (shared with the claim)
  5. evidence-784155

    James S. Robbins has argued that the advent of petroleum-refined kerosene saved some species of great whales from extinction by providing an inexpensive substitute for whale oil, thus eliminating the economic imperative for open-boat whaling.

    • whale (shared with the claim)
    • elimin
    • petroleum (shared with the claim)
    • robbin
    • inexpen
    • substitut
    • refin
    • argu
    • advent
    • save (shared with the claim)