Neville recounts that his friend Benny, to whom he had foretold on the 20th of October that it would come on the 6th of March, telephoned him the previous night — interrupting a dinner with two friends he had not seen in three years — to report his vision of David: left as a sitter at a party, a boy of about fourteen came through, whom he knew to be David and who called him Father, saying their Father would never leave them. Neville now prophesies the next experience for the 8th of July.
Date (happened)
6 March 1968
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Passage 537448 explicitly says Benny's David experience came on the foretold sixth of March. The carrier lecture's independently corroborated exact delivery on 1968-03-11 supplies the year and is consistent with the passage's retrospective wording; this dates the vision itself, unlike the existing March 10 row derived from the later phone call.
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6 March 1968
estimated · possible
Source
passage 555128 (lecture nid 2188), 'he saw David on the 6th day of March, the very day I foretold it would happen'
Why
A friend's separate vision on 5 March, mentioned in the same passage stream, belongs to a different event.
Reasoning
Neville states the day and month of Benny's vision directly ('the 6th day of March'), but no year appears in the passage. The lecture's own delivery year is only probable (claim d1, 1968-03-11, from a chrome dateline whose presence is disputed by the lecture's other delivery claim d0 and which exactly matches the variant lecture 1336's date, an open unresolved discrepancy). The derived happening-date year is therefore set at possible, below d1's own probable rating, per the inheritance ceiling.
Last night
relative
Source
"Last night", told in Conception (nid 2188)
6 March 1968
stated · probable
Source
derived from the event's own title: "Benny experiences David on March 6, 1968"
Reasoning
The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1968-03-06 (day precision, parsed as "month day year"). ⚠ A title in this corpus is a DERIVED artefact — an earlier pass wrote it from the passage text — so this claim is title-derived and is marked as such rather than cited as a source document; the underlying text remains the real evidence and would supersede it. Confidence `probable`, never `certain`, for that reason. Precision is never inflated beyond the title's own wording. CALIBRATION (run v1.1/l1.4/titledate, against the 489 events that already hold an independent preferred date): day 96.1%, month 94.1% agreement. Titles naming a REFERENCE event rather than the event itself ("before", "after", "during the week of", "per ... lecture") are refused outright and never reach this write — reading an anchor as the date is the same laundering phase3b committed when it wrote telling dates onto events.
6 March 1968
relative
Reasoning
March 6 is explicit in the passage witness, and the independently corroborated March 11, 1968 carrier fixes the same-week year.
6 March 1968
stated
Reasoning
The passage names the exact weekday and date of Benny's experience; this checks against the lecture's own certain 1968-03-11 (Monday) delivery date, five days later, per the processing notes' weekday-consistency check.
6 March 1968
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Neville recaps his prediction of Benny's vision for 'the 6th', already fulfilled by the time of this 1968-03-15 lecture (a certain delivery date), while giving a fresh prediction for 8 July. This is the same 6 March happening independently corroborated at certain in hist_event 7066 from a different lecture (nid 1336); typed estimated and capped at probable here because this passage states the day elliptically rather than narrating the fulfillment directly, and the year is fixed only by the lecture's context.
Told
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c. 11 March 1968
estimated · possible
Source
delivery claim d1 on lecture nid 2188
Reasoning
This vision is recounted in the same lecture whose delivery is claimed at 1968-03-11 (probable, but flagged with an unresolved contamination concern against variant node 1336); the telling date cannot exceed that claim's confidence, so it is written at possible.
11 March 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Neville recounts Benny's experience of David to the audience in this lecture, dated 1968-03-11 by two agreeing certain delivery claims; the telling is on that date, distinct from the 1968-03-06 happening.
15 March 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Neville retells the Benny/David prophecy-and-fulfillment in this lecture, dated 1968-03-15 by two agreeing certain delivery claims.
Sources
Source
- Conception ¶13 (Now, my friend Benny on the 20th day of October had the birth of the child. Last night Benny called me.)
- Conception ¶13 (Last night Benny called to tell me that he saw David on the 6th day of March, the very day I foretold it would happen.)