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  "child_id": "2e6a6348-a373-48b5-b7fa-f26a3c3342c5",
  "relation": "contradicts",
  "parent_id": "ce83c0f0-e756-4e41-89d8-86d2f16dc9c3",
  "reasoning": "Weak, indirect evidence against. The execution study (Si, Hashimoto and Yang 2025, NLP prompting research) is comparative: LLM ideas' ratings fell more than expert ideas' after execution, erasing their proposal-stage lead and on several metrics leaving them below expert ideas. It does not measure absolute validation rates, and its domain is computational. What it does show is that judged novelty at the proposal stage overstates how LLM ideas fare when tested, which undercuts using ideation-stage ratings as evidence of reliable validation and gives no sign that LLM ideas outperform expert ones once executed."
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get_claim

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{
  "claim_id": "474f2f6a-3f2c-4294-b232-86767bcbb595"
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