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Summarize an Article Using Chain of Density

Create five increasingly information-dense article summaries using the Chain of Density method. Each revision preserves all previous entities and details while adding a small number of relevant, concise entities, without changing the summary’s word count.

6 steps 1 variables English

Prompt template

Run these steps in order.

Input the full article text into ARTICLE (ARTICLE).

Write an initial verbose summary of approximately 80 words that is non-specific and includes minimal informative entities.

Repeat the following five times:

Identify 1–3 relevant, concise (five words or fewer), novel, and faithful entities from the article that are missing from the previous summary. Separate the entities with semicolons.

Rewrite the summary to include all prior and new entities, keeping the word count the same, improving flow, and maximizing information density. Never drop entities from the previous summary; add fewer new entities if necessary to maintain the length.

Ensure each summary is self-contained and retains all previous entities while balancing new entities within the length constraint. Return the results as a JSON list of five dictionaries with the keys "Missing_Entities" and "Denser_Summary".

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