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Dev claim · claim-369 · #21 of 154

“By 2050 there’s a scientific consensus that we reached the tipping point for ice sheets in Greenland and the West Antarctic”

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

  • antarct
  • consensu
  • greenland
  • ice
  • point
  • reach
  • scientif
  • sheet
  • tip
  • west

Annotators’ label

Supports 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.

Supports✓ matches the label
Supports
63.1%
Refutes
26.5%
Not enough info
1.7%
Disputed
8.8%

One claim at a time

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

Supports✓ matches the label
Supports
53.7%
Refutes
30.7%
Not enough info
10.2%
Disputed
5.4%

With gold evidence

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

Supports✓ matches the label
Supports
64.1%
Refutes
24.2%
Not enough info
1.6%
Disputed
10.1%

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
0 of 2 gold
P
0.00
R
0.00
F
0.00
  1. #1evidence-1061091

    The Whillans Ice Stream, a glaciological feature of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    • ice (shared with the claim)
    • antarct (shared with the claim)
    • stream
    • west (shared with the claim)
    • sheet (shared with the claim)
    • featur
    cos
    0.584
    overlap
    0.667
    score
    1.251
    shared
    4
  2. #2evidence-571920

    West Antarctica is covered by the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

    • ice (shared with the claim)
    • antarct (shared with the claim)
    • cover
    • antarctica
    • west (shared with the claim)
    • sheet (shared with the claim)
    cos
    0.575
    overlap
    0.667
    score
    1.242
    shared
    4
  3. #3evidence-964861

    "Stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet in a warming world".

    • warm
    • stabil
    • ice (shared with the claim)
    • antarct (shared with the claim)
    • west (shared with the claim)
    • sheet (shared with the claim)
    • world
    cos
    0.594
    overlap
    0.571
    score
    1.165
    shared
    4

Gold evidence (2)

  1. evidence-783884

    A study published in 2017 concluded that Greenland's peripheral glaciers and ice caps crossed an irreversible tipping point around 1997, and will continue to melt.

    • melt
    • glacier
    • irrev
    • cap
    • periph
    • tip (shared with the claim)
    • greenland (shared with the claim)
    • conclud
  2. evidence-411817

    A 2019 UNEP study indicates that now at least for the Arctic and the Greenland ice sheet a tipping point has already been reached.

    • unep
    • arctic
    • alreadi
    • sheet (shared with the claim)
    • tip (shared with the claim)
    • greenland (shared with the claim)
    • indic