Gail Woodruff fonds, 1775-2020, n.d.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Gail Woodruff (1947-2022) was the daughter of Milford Reginald Woodruff and Patricia Price. She was born in Niagara Falls and remained in the Niagara Region, working as a teacher in local schools. Upon her retirement in 2000, Gail pursued her many other interests. She was active in the United Empire Loyalists’ Association and served as President of the local Colonel John Butler Branch, as well as volunteering with the Ontario Genealogical Society at the Thorold Library. She was an avid researcher who studied land grants along the Niagara River, publishing a book on the subject in 2011 titled Loyalists and Early Settlers on the Niagara River Parkway. Gail also extensively researched Woodruff family history and published a book on the subject in 2021. The Woodruff family were United Empire Loyalists who came to Canada from the United States in 1795. Ezekiel Woodruff (1763-1837) and his wife Sarah Hall settled in Niagara at this time. They had seven children. Over the years the Woodruffs became prominent citizens in the region who held important social and political positions in the community and ran successful businesses. Ezekiel’s son Richard (1784-1872) was a successful businessman who is considered to be the founder of St. Davids. He also served in the Assembly of Upper Canada as a representative for the first riding of Lincoln and was often referred to as “King Dick”. Richard’s brother William was also a successful businessman who resided in St. Davids and served in the Legislative Assembly representing Lincoln ridings. Richard John Woodruff (1855-1905) was the son of John Woodruff (1819-1856) and grandson of Richard “King Dick” Woodruff.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.189 | 0.059 |
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".