Neville's father was born poor in Barbados and, with Neville's mother, raised twelve children (two died at birth, ten survived). After Neville's mother died in 1941 he never remarried, saying he had been too happily married to her. Starting with nothing, he built a fortune and, when he died in 1959 at the age of eighty-five, left each of his ten children independently wealthy. Neville retells the story repeatedly as proof that a single sustained assumption -- his father's determination to provide for his family -- can be brought to pass regardless of the poverty of the starting position.
Date (happened)
1959
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Neville states the year of his father's death directly and unambiguously.
1959
stated
Reasoning
A second, independent direct statement of the same year from a different lecture; corroboration from a different source is always written.
c. 1959
relative · probable
Reasoning
Five years before the lecture's own certain 1964-01-28 delivery date lands on circa 1959, corroborating the two exact 1959 statements from other lectures.
c. October 1959
relative · possible
Reasoning
If this lecture's own 1959-12-01 delivery claim is the correct one (see told claim below and the flag for another lane), 'last October' would place the death in October 1959, refining but not contradicting the two exact 1959 statements from other lectures; kept at possible because the lecture's delivery date itself is disputed between 1959-12-01 and 1968-11-04.
1959
stated
Reasoning
Neville states this directly in first person about his own father; it is a stated fact, not derived from the lecture's delivery date. It independently matches the corpus anchor for Neville's father's death (hist_event 5951, certain 1959).
1959
stated · probable
Source
derived from the event's own title: "Neville's father dies in 1959"
Reasoning
The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1959 (year precision, parsed as "year only"). ⚠ 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.
1959
stated
Reasoning
Passage 550292 (lecture nid 1965, delivered 1966-09-16) has Neville state in his own words: ‘My father made his exit in ’59, my mother in ’41, I can hear their voices as distinctly as though they were here in the flesh.’ This is a direct, unambiguous first-person statement, independent of the event's title, so it upgrades the existing title-derived claim to a witnessed one. Year precision only, since no month or day is given.
1959
estimated · probable
Why
See merge_proposal: this event and hist_event 5951 both describe Neville's father's death.
Reasoning
This event's own witness gives only his father's age at death (eighty-five), not a year. Treating this event as the same real-world death already anchored at hist_event 5951 (1959, certain) gives 1959 as the year; confidence is capped at probable rather than certain because that identification is offered here as a merge_proposal, not yet a human-confirmed fact.
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Told / reported
4 September 1965
estimated · doubtful
Reasoning
Lecture nid 1034 carries a doubtful 1957 catalog #72 claim and a certain 1965-09-04 catalog #290 claim; the node's own v1.1/l1.3b/w1 annotation already rules out 1957 on internal evidence (the 1959 death mentioned as past, a contemporary 'just killed'), so 1965-09-04 is preferred, not silently picked.
20 May 1968
estimated
Reasoning
Lecture nid 1167 carries a doubtful 1964-05-18 catalog #232 claim and a certain 1968-05-20 catalog #444 claim; the node's own removed chrome dateline reads 5/20/68, matching catalog #444 exactly and contradicting catalog #232 on both day and year, so per the catalog-vs-transcript rule 1968-05-20 is preferred.
28 January 1964
estimated
Reasoning
Lecture nid 1832 carries a single uncontested certain delivery claim.
between 1 December 1959 and 4 November 1968
bound · possible
Why
Reported per the L4 rule for lectures whose delivery claims disagree; not resolved unilaterally.
Reasoning
Two mutually exclusive certain catalog claims with no adjudication in processing notes; written as a between range rather than silently picked. Flag for another lane: this event's own witness passage 552823 says the father 'made his exit last October', and two other, independently certain lectures (nid 1034, nid 1167) place the father's death in 1959 -- which fits '1959-12-01' (October, two months prior) far better than '1968-11-04' (nine years after the death). This is corpus-internal evidence bearing on nid 2076's own delivery date, not just on this event, and is left for the dating lane rather than resolved here.
23 February 1965
estimated · probable
Source
nid 3960 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1948-??-?? refuted; 1965-2-23 probable (preferred)
Why
Lane L7 (#2354) re-derivation. Supersedes in substance, not in storage, the refuted-date told claim(s) on this event; those rows stand per append-only.
Reasoning
Re-derived, not walked down. The existing told claim(s) on this event took their date from a delivery claim on node 3960 that the corpus has since REFUTED, so the corpus was asserting that Neville told this on a day it separately says he did not lecture. That is a contradiction rather than an over-confidence, and lowering the confidence would have hidden it instead of resolving it. The refutation stands and the told claim is the wrong side of it. Node 3960 surviving (non-refuted) claim: 1965-2-23 at `probable`. All claims on the node: 1948-??-?? refuted; 1965-2-23 probable (preferred). Superseded here: delta 4: 1948-00-00 at `probable` (run `v1.1/l4/w1/B1`). The telling is dated by its lecture, so with the refuted date removed from consideration the surviving claim is what the telling inherits, at that claim own confidence and no higher.
23 September 1966
estimated
Reasoning
The passage recounting the vision of his father (544930) sits in lecture nid=1803, whose delivery date is certain (chrome dateline '9/23/66', corroborated by a second independent structural read and by the weekday/forward-reference pattern); that is when Neville told this account.
16 September 1966
estimated
Reasoning
Neville recounts his father's death (‘My father made his exit in ’59...’) within lecture nid 1965 ‘Behold the Dreamer (repeat)’, passage 550292. The lecture's delivery date, 1966-09-16, is corroborated by two independent, matching, certain sources (legacy catalog #319 and chrome byline harvest). || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/8000-9999-b3, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1965, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
14 April 1969
estimated
Reasoning
Neville recounts the circumstances of his father's forced departure from his grocery-business partnership and death (‘...and when he died in …’) within lecture nid 1838 ‘Man Soul Body Emanation’, passage 546371. The lecture's delivery date, 1969-04-14, is corroborated by two independent, matching, certain sources (legacy catalog #791 and chrome-dateline harvest). || v1.1 type repair: written as `stated` by run v1.1/l4/actor417/8000-9999-b3, retyped `estimated` — the claim cites node 1838, not a passage, so it is this lane's inference rather than something Neville said in so many words (#2117).
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1 May 1964
estimated
Reasoning
The father's age at death is recounted within this lecture; the lecture's delivery date (1964-05-01) is stated, certain, and independently corroborated, so the told date carries that same confidence.
after 1948
bound · refuted
Source
delivery claim on lecture nid 3960 ('The Dreamer'): open bound 'after 1948', derived from the father's 1948 visit to America recounted as past
Reasoning
The lecture's own delivery claim only bounds delivery to after 1948, with no upper bound; capped at probable rather than the claim's own certain, since the processing notes flag this ASR-derived transcript as provisional and not yet human-corrected. || v1.1/l7/told-lower: lowered `probable` -> `doubtful`. The telling-date 1948-??-?? is refuted on the source lecture (nid 3960) and no live claim on that node supports it, so the corpus can no longer say WHEN this was told. ⛔ The row is KEPT, not retired: it also records THAT nid 3960 tells this event, which is true and checkable from the passages, and retiring it would discard that with the date.