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cafe au lait unspecified sense

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a French coffee beverage made of coffee and milk, served at breakfast

Other senses of “cafe au lait”

beverage beverage/medicine

Connections

The concepts, people, and places this entity is most linked to by claims — node size is mention count, colour is type, dashed nodes are other senses of the same word.

cafe au laitcafe au lait (beverage)cafe au lait (beverage/medicine)one-fourth strong coffee and three-fourths milk — 1 shared claimsoup with leather — 1 shared claimItalians — 1 shared claimone-fourth strong c…soup with leatherItalians
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William H. Ukers (author)

  • assertspositivesource: coffee-pg28500
    _Cafe au lait_ is much better if made with one-fourth strong coffee and three-fourths milk than if made half-and-half with a weaker coffee
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The exact quote provided matches the text: '_Cafe au lait_ is much better if made with one-fourth strong coffee and three-fourths milk than if made half-and-half with a weaker coffee,' which explicitly supports the subject-predicate-object relationship presented in the claim.
    • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the unnamed author of the instructional text). The stance is accurately marked as 'asserts' - the passage makes a direct positive claim. The sentiment is positive, matching the phrase 'much better'. The time is correctly null, as the passage provides no temporal scope for this claim. The context is empty, which is appropriate since the passage does not restrict the claim to a specific sense or period. The quote appears verbatim and directly supports the claim about café au lait proportions.
  • Italians make much of cafe au lait for breakfast cafe au lait breakfast ⟨breakfast⟩
    the Italians make much of _cafe au lait_ for breakfast
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage: 'Like the French, the Italians make much of _cafe au lait_ for breakfast.' The subject, predicate, and object all match the exact wording found in the text.
    • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (not a named source). The stance is appropriately 'asserts' as the passage states this as fact. The sentiment is neutral, matching the descriptive tone. The time qualifier 'when: breakfast' correctly captures the temporal context from the passage. The context 'breakfast' accurately reflects the restriction stated in the passage. The quote appears verbatim and directly supports the claim.

MARCHAND, EUGENE

  • assertsnegativesource: coffee-pg28500
    Le cafe du lait est une soupe au cuir
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly supported by the passage. The exact quote 'Le cafe du lait est une soupe au cuir' appears in the MARCHAND, EUGENE reference from 1873, confirming that this author made this statement about cafe au lait being soup with leather.
    • qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint correctly attributes the claim to MARCHAND, EUGENE as named in the passage. The stance 'asserts' accurately reflects how the passage presents the statement. The sentiment 'negative' is appropriate given the derisive nature of comparing cafe au lait to 'soup with leather.' The time qualifier correctly identifies 1873 as the publication year from the passage. The context is appropriately empty as the passage provides none. The quote 'Le cafe du lait est une soupe au cuir' appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim.

Change over time

1873
  • is soup with leather
breakfast
  • make much of cafe au lait for breakfast Italians