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New York market unspecified sense

place · 5 mentions

export destination for coffee

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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.

New York marketUnited Kingdom market — 1 shared claimartificial grade — 1 shared claimWilliam Penn — 1 shared claimUnited Kingdom mark…artificial gradeWilliam Penn
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George M. Rolph (author)

  • New York market provides more satisfactory results than United Kingdom market ⟨due to port charges and dispatch differences⟩
    assertsneutralsource: sugar-pg73616
    the New York results are generally more satisfactory
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The text explicitly says 'owing to difference in port charges and dispatch, the New York results are generally more satisfactory' when comparing where Cuban sugar planters could net better figures.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.85 pass — The claim is mostly faithful to the passage. Viewpoint, stance, and sentiment are appropriate. Time qualifiers are correctly set to null as the passage gives no specific temporal scope. Context appropriately references the passage's explanation about port charges and dispatch. However, there is a minor issue with the quote: while 'the New York results are generally more satisfactory' does appear verbatim and supports the main predicate, the full contextual quote in the passage is 'owing to difference in port charges and dispatch, the New York results are generally more satisfactory, even with the concession of a part, or at times all of, or even more than, the 20-per-cent preferential.' The claim's quote omits this important qualification that Cuban planters accept these results 'even with the concession' of the preferential duty, which subtly changes the force of the comparison. This is a minor contextual omission rather than an outright misquotation, hence the slight deduction.

William H. Ukers (author)

  • William Penn bought green coffee supplies in New York market 1683
    William Penn bought his green coffee supplies in the New York market in 1683
    judge verdicts (2)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage: 'William Penn bought his green coffee supplies in the New York market in 1683, paying for them at the rate of $4.68 a pound.' All elements of the subject-predicate-object triple are explicitly supported.
    • 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' (a straightforward statement of fact), sentiment is neutral, the time is accurately specified as 1683 with matching valid_from and valid_to dates, context is appropriately empty as the passage provides no contextual restriction, and the quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim.

ensaccador practice

  • artificial grade was created as desirable for trading on New York market Formerly ⟨historical coffee processing practice⟩
    Formerly the coffee, being rebagged by the _ensaccador_, was manipulated in what is called ligas; that is, mixing several neutral grades from various lots to create an artificial grade; or, more properly speaking, a "type," desirable for trading on the New York market.
    judge verdicts (4)
    • groundedness 0.70 pass — The claim is supported by the passage, which states that mixing several neutral grades creates an artificial grade 'desirable for trading on the New York market.' The phrasing is slightly reworded from the original but accurately captures the core statement.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.60 fail — The quote is accurate and sentiment is neutral, but there are two critical qualifier issues: (1) VIEWPOINT - the passage does not attribute this statement to the author as a general assertion; rather, it describes the historical practice of creating artificial grades/types specifically 'desirable for trading on the New York market,' which is presented as the purpose/motivation of the ensaccador's manipulation practice. The viewpoint should reflect that this desirability was the stated reason for the practice, not a neutral authorial assertion. (2) TIME - the passage explicitly frames this as 'Formerly...was manipulated,' indicating a past/historical period. The time qualifiers should not be null but should indicate this is historical/past practice, not current or unspecified time.
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The text explicitly describes how the ensaccador formerly manipulated coffee by mixing neutral grades to create an artificial grade or 'type' that was desirable for trading on the New York market, with the exact quote provided supporting all elements of the claim.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.95 pass — Qualifiers are nearly all faithful. The quote is verbatim and supports the claim. Viewpoint correctly identifies the ensaccador practice. Stance is appropriately neutral (asserts). Sentiment is neutral. Time qualifier 'Formerly' correctly matches the passage's temporal framing. Context appropriately identifies this as a historical coffee processing practice. Minor deduction only for the viewpoint phrasing: it could be more precisely stated as simply 'ensaccador' rather than 'ensaccador practice' since the passage attributes the action to the ensaccador person/role, not to an abstract practice, but this is a very minor distinction and does not substantially misrepresent the source attribution.

Change over time

1683
  • bought green coffee supplies in William Penn
Formerly
  • was created as desirable for trading on artificial grade