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Pontiac (Obwandiyag) (1720–1769)

2011· other· en· W1591068951 on OpenAlex
Bruce Vandervort

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of War · 2011
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBattleVictoryTribeAncient historyHistorySpanish Civil WarWhite (mutation)LawArchaeologyPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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Abstract Born in obscurity and destined to lie in an unmarked grave, Pontiac nonetheless became one of the most famous Indians in the history of North America, though much of his fame was owed to white men writing about him long after his death. A war chief of the Ottawa tribe who inhabited the eastern half of Michigan and parts of Ohio and Ontario, Pontiac fought alongside the French in their wars with Britain between 1744 and 1763. The Ottawa, like most of the Great Lakes Indian tribes, had close relations with the French through the fur trade. David Dixon, author of a study of Pontiac's uprising, believes that it is “entirely possible” that Pontiac led Ottawa warriors in the French and Indian ambush of Braddock's column on the Monongahela in 1755 (Dixon 2006: 62). He was one of the many Western Indian leaders who believed that the war was not over in 1763 but that the French would return to battle on to victory.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.149
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it