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Record W2025045230 · doi:10.1080/789609350

Teaching the Explorers: Some Inuit Contributions to Arctic Discoveries

2002· article· en· W2025045230 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
H. G. Jones

Bibliographic record

VenuePolar Geography · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPolar Research and Ecology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublicityThe arcticArcticOceanographyGoodwillHistoryLawPolitical scienceGeology

Abstract

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In 1860, Charles Francis Hall sailed north in an attempt to reach King William Island in a bold attempt to solve the mystery of the Franklin expedition. During this expedition, and for most of his remaining life, Hall was accompanied by Tookoolito ("Hannah") and her husband Ebierbing ("Joe"). After spending two years on Baffin Island, Hall and his Inuit companions returned to the United States, where Hall set out to raise funds for a second expedition in search of the Franklin expedition. After five long years searching for survivors from, or information about the Franklin expedition, a frustrated Hall returned to the States in August 1869, again accompanied by Tookoolito and Ebierbing. And as before, the Inuit couple served as goodwill ambassadors and entertained thousands, including the President and Vice-President of the United States and several members of Congress. This publicity campaign was so successful that in July 1871, the Polaris sailed in an effort to reach the North Pole by sea. On November 8 of that year,Hall died under mysterious circumstances. This did not end the contributions of Tookoolito and Ebierbing to Arctic exploration, as they helped a party of 19 who had become separated from the Polaris survive for six wintry months.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.305
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

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 studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.002

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.239 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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