Why start = 4

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Hello, I'm a student who try to learn from this paper and code, and I met a small question confused me.

def count_frequency(triples, start=4):
''' Get frequency of a partial triple like (head, relation) or (relation, tail) The frequency will be used for subsampling like word2vec ''' count = {} for head, relation, tail in triples: if (head, relation) not in count: count[(head, relation)] = start

why start = 4 instead of start = 1?