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John Cabot Makes a Claim for England, 1497

2012· book-chapter· en· W2482758060 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Roger M. McCoy

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2012
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Studies on Spain
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMainlandHistoryMainland ChinaNew englandAncient historyGeographyArchaeologyGenealogyCartographyLawPolitical scienceChinaPolitics

Abstract

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This chapter focuses on John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland in 1497, a new land that he claimed for England. Although he probably never set foot on the mainland of North America, Cabot found Newfoundland after he went on a mission to find a route to Asia. He then returned to England and reported success to his king, Henry VII, and investors, hoping to obtain funding for a second voyage designed for trade with the people of Asia. The entire second voyage is unknown, except that Cabot departed from Bristol in 1498 and was never seen again. For about twenty-five years after Cabot's voyage of 1497, only cod fishermen sailed to the Newfoundland area, creating a lull in the mapping of North America. Gaspar Corte Real made two voyages into the North Atlantic— to Greenland and Newfoundland—with the authority of the king of Portugal in 1500 and 1501. In 1502, Alberto Cantino made a world map for the Duke of Ferrara based on information from Gaspar's voyages.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.827
Threshold uncertainty score0.345

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.005

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 head0.052
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.144 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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