14 cents per pound unspecified sense

George M. Rolph (author)

• Hawaiian sugar brought price of 14 cents per pound early Hawaiian sugar trade period, before reciprocity ⟨raw grocery sugars with especial favor from trade, before reciprocity⟩
  assertspositivesource: sugar-pg73616

  these grades brought as high as 14 cents per pound

  judge verdicts (4)

  • groundedness 0.90 pass — The claim is directly supported by the passage. The text explicitly states 'Some plantations turned out sugars that found especial favor with the trade, and these grades brought as high as 14 cents per pound.' The claim accurately captures this statement with only minor rewording (changing 'these grades' to 'special grades of sugar' and slightly reformatting the predicate).
  • qualifier_fidelity 0.65 fail — VIEWPOINT: The passage does not attribute this statement to the author as a general assertion. The statement appears in a historical narrative about 1876-era Hawaiian sugar trade, but the context ('Some plantations turned out sugars that found especial favor with the trade, and these grades brought...') indicates this is reporting what occurred in that specific period, not a timeless author claim. The time qualifiers should reflect that this refers to the early Hawaiian sugar trade period (circa 1876 or before reciprocity), not a null time period. TIME: 'when' should specify the early period of Hawaiian sugar production (before reciprocity), not null, since the passage grounds this in a specific historical moment. CONTEXT: The context should specify these were 'raw grocery sugars' or indicate they were sold before the shift to supplying refiners, to distinguish them from later refined sugars. The quote supports the price claim but the qualifiers misrepresent the temporal and contextual scope.
  • groundedness 0.70 pass — The claim is substantially supported by the passage. The text explicitly states 'these grades brought as high as 14 cents per pound' regarding sugars that 'found especial favor with the trade.' The only minor issue is the claim specifies 'Hawaiian sugar' broadly, while the passage refers to specific grades that achieved this price, but this is a minor rewording distinction rather than a factual error.
  • qualifier_fidelity 0.85 pass — The claim is largely faithful to the passage. Viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author. Stance ('asserts') and sentiment ('positive') are appropriate. Context correctly identifies the raw grocery sugars and pre-reciprocity period. The quote is accurate and verbatim. Minor issue: The time qualifier's descriptive text ('early Hawaiian sugar trade period, before reciprocity') is slightly interpretive rather than directly from the passage, but the null values for valid_from/valid_to appropriately reflect that the passage provides no specific dates. This is acceptable practice for historical context. All essential qualifiers are faithful.