Curatorial Report #107: Charlie’s War: The Life and Death of a South African Labourer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1917-1918
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Examining the life, wartime experiences and death of Private Charlie Some of Nova Scotia’s No. 2 Construction Battalion, Charlie’s War contributes to a more nuanced and inclusive picture of Canadian soldiers’ experiences of the First World War. Private Some’s name is listed with thousands of other war dead in Canada’s Book of Remembrance and in the Canadian Virtual War Memorial, yet his story is different from the ones we tend to hear. He died a violent death in France, but it was outside of battle and likely at the hands of an ally or comrade. Though he fought with the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), Charlie Some was not Canadian. Though he joined the No. 2 Construction Battalion and lived in Africville, Nova Scotia, he was a newcomer to that historic community. When he was hospitalized, it was as a result of civilian encounters. Examining Private Some’s life experiences challenge us to reconsider what we know and understand about the First World War, and concepts of race, identity and empire.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".