Dev claim · claim-386 · #143 of 154
“Renewables such as wind turbines are environmentally disastrous because they pollute a huge land area, slice and dice birds and bats, kill insects that are bird food, create health problems for humans who live within kilometres of them, leave toxins around the turbine site and despoil the landscape.”
Claim tags (sorted stems; highlighted when a passage shares them)
- area
- around
- bat
- bird
- bird
- creat
- despoil
- dice
- disastr
- environment
- food
- health
- huge
- human
- insect
- kill
- kilometr
- land
- landscap
- leav
- live
- pollut
- problem
- site
- slice
- toxin
- turbin
- turbin
- wind
- within
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
- 13.5%
- Refutes
- 3.8%
- Not enough info
- 78.4%
- Disputed
- 4.2%
One claim at a time
The same model run on a single claim, which is how the Try-it page runs it.
- Supports
- 30.9%
- Refutes
- 8.3%
- Not enough info
- 47.9%
- Disputed
- 12.9%
With gold evidence
Fed the human-annotated evidence instead of retrieved passages. This is the 'val accuracy' the training loop reports.
- Supports
- 47.6%
- Refutes
- 15.1%
- Not enough info
- 23.0%
- Disputed
- 14.3%
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 1 gold
- P
- 0.00
- R
- 0.00
- F
- 0.00
#1evidence-1022928 These insects accumulate toxins in their exoskeletons and pass them on to insectivorous birds and bats.
- pass
- bird (shared with the claim)
- accumul
- toxin (shared with the claim)
- bat (shared with the claim)
- insect (shared with the claim)
- cos
- 0.369
- overlap
- 0.667
- score
- 1.036
- shared
- 4
#2evidence-1080171 Bird abatement, driving or removing undesired birds from an area
- remov
- drive
- area (shared with the claim)
- bird (shared with the claim)
- cos
- 0.520
- overlap
- 0.500
- score
- 1.020
- shared
- 2
#3evidence-1041248 Hungry prions mistook these pellets for food, and these particles were found intact within the birds' gizzards and proventriculi.
- within (shared with the claim)
- food (shared with the claim)
- bird (shared with the claim)
- intact
- found
- particl
- cos
- 0.520
- overlap
- 0.500
- score
- 1.020
- shared
- 3
#4evidence-656333 This bird is on the verge of extinction.
- bird (shared with the claim)
- extinct
- cos
- 0.506
- overlap
- 0.500
- score
- 1.006
- shared
- 1
#5evidence-435422 ``Pasărea Phoenix'' (Phoenix Bird, The) -1968
- phoenix
- bird (shared with the claim)
- cos
- 0.506
- overlap
- 0.500
- score
- 1.006
- shared
- 1
#6evidence-1060245 His meta-analysis concluded that in 2012 in the United States, wind turbines resulted in the deaths of 888,000 bats and 573,000 birds, including 83,000 birds of prey.
- turbin (shared with the claim)
- bird (shared with the claim)
- bat (shared with the claim)
- analysi
- conclud
- wind (shared with the claim)
- meta
- prey
- cos
- 0.506
- overlap
- 0.500
- score
- 1.006
- shared
- 4
Gold evidence (1)
evidence-555861 Fossil-fueled power plants, which wind turbines generally require to make up for their weather dependent intermittency, kill almost 20 times as many birds per gigawatt hour (GWh) of electricity according to Sovacool.
- fuel
- depend
- fossil
- turbin (shared with the claim)
- intermitt
- bird (shared with the claim)
- weather
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