Neville went to his tailor Louie, of thirty-odd years, asked to see suit lengths, and picked out three that Louie then imagined and made up; he adds that his dentist likewise sees what ought to be in his mouth rather than what is there.
Date (happened)
between 1922 and 1955
unresolved
between 1922 and 1955
stated · probable · preferred
No date
relative · possible
Why
Flags the existing 1922-1955 claim as answering a different question (tailor tenure) rather than the event's own happening date; does not overwrite it.
Reasoning
The existing field_date claim (1922-1955, 'thirty-odd years') reads Louie's tenure as Neville's tailor as if it dated this specific fitting; it actually dates when the tailor relationship began, a different fact. The passage gives no explicit interval between the tailor visit and the telling, so the happening date of 'three suits made' itself remains unestablished at any year; it is presumed roughly contemporaneous with the telling only in relative order, not fixed to a date.
Told / reported
5 November 1969
stated · possible
5 November 1969
stated · possible
Why
Corrects the confidence of the told claim written by run `corpus v1 / phase3b` at delta 0 on this event; that claim is left standing per append-only. Ceiling rule #2132.
Reasoning
Confidence only; the date is not re-adjudicated and is left exactly as written. This claim is derived from the delivery claims of node 1915 and asserts `certain`, but the strongest claim that node carries is `probable`, so there is nothing for `certain` to inherit from. nid 1915 delivery claims: 1955-??-?? doubtful; 1967-11-3 possible; 1969-11-5 possible; 1969-5-12 probable. Walked back to `probable`, the ceiling. Whether the DATE is right is a separate question this row does not touch; if the evidence turns out to support more confidence, it will have to come from a source other than this node.
12 May 1969
estimated · probable
Why
Corrects the existing 1969-11-05 told claims, which rest on a catalogue date the lecture's own notes say does not match this transcript.
Reasoning
The existing told claims (1969-11-05) rest on catalogue #617, which the lecture's own d2 note states this transcript's dateline does not match. The transcript's own confirmed header dateline, 1969-05-12, is the only delivery claim that is a direct witness of this specific text rather than an unmatched catalogue attribution of the recurring title, so it is the better-supported telling date. Held at probable, matching its own ceiling, since the catalogue's competing attributions for this recurring title were never adjudicated.