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Record W4245108405 · doi:10.3138/chr.89.3.373

Toronto Society's Response to Celebrity Performers, 1887–1914

2008· article· en· W4245108405 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Keith Walden

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Historical Review · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmateurPrestigeEliteEntertainmentRealmMusicalMedia studiesImpromptuFront (military)SociologyVisual artsHighbrowCompetition (biology)HistoryAestheticsArtPolitical scienceLiteratureLawPoliticsEngineering

Abstract

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The appearance of Toronto's Saturday Night magazine, founded in 1887, highlighted the competition between the city's social elite and outside figures of influence from the realm of commercial entertainment. It devoted considerable coverage both to the doings of local high society and to the city's theatrical and musical scene, which featured an unending succession of travelling stars. The blossoming of the culture of celebrity, which followed from the growing respectability of the stage in the nineteenth century, posed a challenge to the prestige and primacy of the beau monde. Its members reacted by trying to dominate performance halls from in front of the stage, incorporating suitable entertainers into local social circles, and most surprisingly, taking to the stage themselves in amateur productions that highlighted their own community leadership. None of these tactics could stem celebrity culture, and by the start of the First World War, the focus of elite strategies for securing status had shifted away from the playhouse.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.090
Threshold uncertainty score0.650

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.005
Science and technology studies0.0110.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.002

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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.232 · 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 designQualitative
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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