THOMPSON, WILLIAM H. (1873–24 JULY 1945)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
American baritone and vaudeville artist, one of the early performers on Edison cylinders. He made about 40 cylinders as a soloist from 1902 to 1911, and also duets with Albert Campbell. The Edison 1902 list included “Sadie, Say You Won’t Say Nay” (#8037), plus “In the Moonlight with the Girl You Love” (#8044), and two others. There were further duets on Edison cylinders, with Will Oakland and Albert Campbell, then recordings for U-S Everlasting Records, with Frank Coombs. Thompson cut 14 sides for Victor, in two sessions: 30 Nov 1903 and 21 June 1904. He did not record after 1913. He died in Chicago. [Walsh 1951/5.] Swedish contralto, born in Venjan. She studied and made her debut in Stockholm and was with the Royal Opera in 1924-1930. Then she sang in Berlin and Vienna, and at the Metropolitan Opera as Fricka on 21 Dec 1936, remaining until 1950 (except for the 1946-1947 season). She gave many recitals across the U.S. and Canada before retiring to Sweden, where she died in Hedemora.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.097 | 0.050 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".