Is Claude less prone to hallucinating than Chat GPT?

I've been playing around with DuckDuckGo's Claude 3 Haiku and ChaptGPT 4o Mini by prompting with this template:

What, if anything, can you tell me about [insert person/topic]...?

I do this as a precaution - before doing my "real prompt" I want to do an epistemic spot-check on whether or not the LLM can get the basic facts right. It appears Claude 3 Haiku has a much higher threshold for what it will reply on than Chat GPT 4o Mini.^[1]

Claude 3 Haiku gives a standard disclaimer rather than an answer for former-SNL comedian Jack Handey, Simpsons writer George Meyer, the cult zine "Army Man" they both contributed to but not their colleague Conan O'Brien.

ChatGPT 4oMini, on the other hand, confidently and correctly identified Jack Handey as the writer of the proto-twitter "Deep Thoughts" and as a cast member of SNL.

It correctly stated George Meyer as an influential writer among the Simpsons writing team, and a SNL alumni, but it incorrectly said he had contributed to the television show the Critic.

ChatGPT 4o Mini also incorrectly described Jack Handey and Poet J. D. McClatchy as the creators of Army Man (actually George Meyer was). And the description of it's cult appeal and abstract content seems more like a successful Forer/Barnum effect  hallucination rather than actually based on facts.

Does this match your experience? Is this unique to the particular scaled down models? Is this simply how two different LLMs behave when present with an identical prompt?
 

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   I don't know anything about how these have been scaled down or what System Prompts are used for each implementation, so maybe Chat GPT 4o Mini has more parameters and therefore a larger scraping of source material to reference; or maybe they have roughly the same but there's a higher and more discerning filter on Claude 3 Haiku?