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Record W3121960876

Henry A. Ward and the Recovery of the Santa Rosa, Colombia, Meteorite

2004· article· en· W3121960876 on OpenAlexaff
Howard Plotkin

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHistory and Politics in Latin America
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMeteoriteConfusionBattleHistoryAstrobiologyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Henry A. Ward (1834-1906), the celebrated founder and owner of Ward's Natural Science Establishment, one of the most interesting and significant North American scientific institutions in the late 19th century, was also perhaps the shrewdest and most enthusiastic meteorite collector of his day. Toward the end of his career, at age 68, he became very interested in a large (612.5 kg) iron meteorite in Santa Rosa, Colombia that was highly venerated by the local townspeople. In an effort to obtain the meteorite in whole or in part—and hopefully clear up the scientific confusion surrounding it—he journeyed to Santa Rosa in the winter of 1906. His attempt to retrieve the meteorite led to a clever plan with local officials, a daring nighttime removal, and a heated legal battle with the national police, but eventually he was allowed to leave Colombia with a large piece of the meteorite. His subsequent investigation of the meteorite is examined, as is our present understanding of it and its relationship to two mete...

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.857
Threshold uncertainty score0.915

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.262 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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