On the Thursday morning before the race, returning to the surface from sleep, Neville saw the finish of the Triple Crown race at Belmont in complete detail; he chose not to revise it, and when he watched the race on television he felt no excitement because he already knew the winner.
Date (happened)
5 June 1969
stated · preferred
Why
Passage 540250 independently reports the same Thursday-before-Saturday sequence.
Reasoning
The identified Belmont Stakes was run Saturday 1969-06-07. Neville explicitly says the vision occurred three days before the race, in the wee hours of Thursday at about four; this fixes 1969-06-05 about 04:00.
1969
stated · probable
Source
derived from the event's own title: "Neville sees the 1969 Belmont Stakes result in a vision"
Reasoning
The event held NO date claim of any kind; its own title states 1969 (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.
5 June 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 543016 names 'this past Thursday morning' and says the race was two days later. Counting back from the probable Monday 1969-06-09 delivery gives Thursday June 5; independently, subtracting two days from the packet-identified Saturday 1969-06-07 Belmont Stakes gives the same date. Confidence cannot exceed the probable lecture anchor.
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19 June 1969
stated · probable
Told / reported
9 June 1969
estimated
Why
First reviewed telling.
Reasoning
Passage 540250 tells this vision in lecture 1459, whose independent delivery claims agree on 1969-06-09. The told date is derived from the containing lecture and therefore typed estimated.
20 June 1969
estimated · probable
Why
Second reviewed telling; catalog's 1969-06-21 alternative remains in the lecture record.
Reasoning
Passage 540387 retells the vision in lecture 1464. The recovered transcript dateline gives 1969-06-20; the catalog differs by one day, so this derived told claim is probable and nonpreferred.
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9 June 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The vision itself happened privately on a Thursday morning (field_date 1969-06-05); Neville recounted it from the platform in this lecture. The lecture's own delivery date is held at probable confidence (chrome dateline reading, node:1754), so the told claim is capped at probable per the inheritance ceiling and cannot exceed the delivery claim it rests on.
21 June 1969
stated · possible
Sources
Source
- The First Principle ¶11 (Thursday vision before Saturday Belmont race)
- Personifications, Not Persons ¶37 (Vision about 04:00 Thursday, three days before race)
- The First Principle ¶11 (This past Thursday morning as I was returning to the surface, I saw the finish of the Triple Crown race at Belmont in detail. Now this was Thursday and the race was not to be run until Saturday, but I saw the finish so clearly that if I had a million dol…)
- Pursue Truth With Ceaseless Questioning ¶9 (This past Thursday morning as I was coming through to the surface, I was arrested just for a moment, to see the race at Belmont, and here I am seeing the entire race.)
- Personifications, Not Persons ¶37 (But I saw the race in the wee hours of Thursday morning, about four. I was closer to that race than I’ve ever been to any race in my life when I’m viewing it through these eyes, or even if I’m on the finish line.)