
TASK: Please classify the relationship between the given premise and hypothesis into one of the following labels: entailment, contradiction, or neutral. Return only the label.
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INPUT: [PRE] The patient was able to maintain his oxygen saturations on nasal cannula; although, arterial blood gases during the Intensive Care Unit stay showed persistent hypercarbia of unclear etiology. [HYP]  the patient is acidotic
OUTPUT:

entailment contradiction neutral