St. Louis unspecified sense

place · 28 mentions

a city in the United States

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.

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Defining properties

have put output on market in United States companies
held in preliminary meetings of Mississippi Valley coffee roasters
was held in tenth annual meeting
was a kind of roasted coffee known to the trade in Rio ⟨in the beginning⟩
exists in roasting trade
was transported to machinery for sugar manufacture
has facility in Holland St. Louis Sugar Co.

Perspectives

Claims grouped by the voice that makes them.

William H. Ukers (author)

United States companies have put output on market in St. Louis recent years
assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500
their output in recent years has been put upon the market in St. Louis
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The exact quote 'their output in recent years has been put upon the market in St. Louis' appears verbatim at the end of the passage, confirming that United States companies have put their coffee output on the market in St. Louis in recent years.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to 'author' (the passage presents this as factual reporting without naming a specific source). The stance 'asserts' matches the declarative framing. The sentiment is appropriately neutral. The time qualifier 'recent years' matches the passage's temporal scope exactly. The context is correctly empty as no specific sense or restriction applies. The quote is verbatim from the passage and directly supports the claim about US companies marketing coffee output in St. Louis.
preliminary meetings of Mississippi Valley coffee roasters held in St. Louis May and June, 1911
assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500
preliminary meetings of Mississippi Valley coffee roasters held in St. Louis in May and June, 1911
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage's opening sentence: 'preliminary meetings of Mississippi Valley coffee roasters held in St. Louis in May and June, 1911' appears verbatim, with no rewording or interpretation needed.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the passage itself states this as historical fact). The stance 'asserts' matches the passage's declarative presentation. The sentiment is neutral, appropriate for factual historical reporting. The time qualifiers (May and June, 1911) match exactly with valid_from and valid_to normalized correctly. The context is empty, which is appropriate as the passage provides no specific sense or role restriction. The quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim.
tenth annual meeting was held in St. Louis November 10-12, 1920
assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500
The tenth annual meeting was held in St. Louis, November 10-12, 1920.
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the first sentence of the passage: 'The tenth annual meeting was held in St. Louis, November 10-12, 1920.' All elements match exactly without any rewording or interpretation required.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (passage states this as fact without attribution to a named source). The stance is 'asserts' which matches the declarative presentation. The sentiment is neutral, appropriate for a factual statement. The time qualifiers correctly capture the dates given in the passage with proper normalization. The context is appropriately empty as the passage provides no specific contextual restriction. The quote matches verbatim and directly supports the claim.
roasting trade exists in St. Louis 1857
assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500
St. Louis (1857), 629-633
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 0.70 pass — The passage directly lists 'St. Louis (1857), 629-633' under the 'Roasting trade' section for the United States, which supports the claim that the roasting trade existed in St. Louis in 1857. The claim is stated with appropriate specificity matching the source material.
- qualifier_fidelity 0.90 pass — The claim is largely faithful to the passage. The quote 'St. Louis (1857), 629-633' appears verbatim in the 'Roasting trade' section under 'United States'. Viewpoint, stance, sentiment, and time qualifiers are all appropriate and accurate. The context is appropriately empty since the passage provides no specific contextual restriction. One minor note: the quote is an index entry rather than a full sentence, but it does support the claim that a roasting trade existed in St. Louis in 1857.

George M. Rolph (author)

machinery for sugar manufacture was transported to St. Louis 1852
assertsneutralsource: sugar-pg73616
thence to St. Louis
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The text explicitly states that the machinery 'was taken up the Mississippi river to St. Louis' as part of the journey from New Orleans, confirming the transport of the machinery to St. Louis in 1852.
- qualifier_fidelity 0.90 pass — The claim is largely faithful to the passage. Viewpoint, stance, sentiment, and context are all appropriate. However, the time qualifier is slightly imprecise: the passage states the machinery was 'shipped to New Orleans in charge of Morris in March, 1852' and then 'from New Orleans it was taken up the Mississippi river to St. Louis,' but it does not explicitly specify that the St. Louis leg occurred in 1852 versus 1853 (the journey across the plains began July 4th and took four months, arriving mid-November). The quote 'thence to St. Louis' accurately appears in the passage and supports the claim. Given that the passage gives March 1852 as the starting date and the subsequent journey details but no explicit date for the St. Louis arrival, the 1852 dating for valid_from and valid_to is reasonable but somewhat inferred rather than strictly stated. This is a minor qualification issue.
Holland St. Louis Sugar Co. has facility in St. Louis 1903
assertsneutralsource: sugar-pg73616
Holland St. Louis Sugar Co. St. Louis 1903
judge verdicts (2)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The table explicitly shows 'Holland St. Louis Sugar Co.' with a facility in 'St. Louis' established in 1903, matching all elements of the claim.
- qualifier_fidelity 1.00 pass — All qualifiers are faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to the author (the passage is a reference table with no named source attribution). The stance 'asserts' is appropriate for a factual table entry. The sentiment is neutral, matching the objective nature of the data. The time qualifiers are accurate: 'when' is 1903, 'valid_from' is 1903, and 'valid_to' is null as the passage provides no end date. The context is appropriately empty as the passage gives no restricting context. The quote appears verbatim in the passage and directly supports the claim that Holland St. Louis Sugar Co. had a facility in St. Louis in 1903.

Julius J. Schotten

Rio was a kind of roasted coffee known to the trade in St. Louis in the beginning ⟨in the beginning⟩
assertsneutralsource: coffee-pg28500
In the beginning there were only two kinds of roasted coffee known to the trade in this section of the country (St. Louis) and of course one of these brands was "Rio"
judge verdicts (4)
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The text explicitly says 'In the beginning there were only two kinds of roasted coffee known to the trade in this section of the country (St. Louis) and of course one of these brands was "Rio"', which directly supports that Rio was a kind of roasted coffee known to the trade in the St. Louis region in the beginning.
- qualifier_fidelity 0.50 fail — VIEWPOINT QUALIFIER UNFAITHFUL: The passage attributes this statement to 'the late Julius J. Schotten,' not to the author. The claim states 'viewpoint: author' but should state 'viewpoint: Julius J. Schotten' since the passage explicitly introduces this as a direct communication from Schotten to the author ('The late Julius J. Schotten also wrote the author as follows'). All other qualifiers (stance, sentiment, time, context, quote) are faithful to the passage.
- groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly supported by the passage. The quoted text explicitly states that Rio was one of two kinds of roasted coffee known to the trade in St. Louis (referred to as 'this section of the country') in the beginning, and attributes this assertion to Julius J. Schotten as indicated in the passage.
- qualifier_fidelity 0.85 pass — The claim is mostly faithful to the passage qualifiers. However, there is a minor issue with the 'context' field: it should be null or empty rather than repeating 'in the beginning', since 'in the beginning' is a temporal qualifier (captured in the 'when' field), not a contextual restriction on the sense or role of Rio. The viewpoint (Julius J. Schotten), stance (asserts), sentiment (neutral), time qualifier (in the beginning), and quote are all accurate and faithful to the passage.

Change over time

1852

was transported to machinery for sugar manufacture

1857

exists in roasting trade

1903

has facility in Holland St. Louis Sugar Co.

May and June, 1911

held in preliminary meetings of Mississippi Valley coffee roasters

November 10-12, 1920

was held in tenth annual meeting

in the beginning

was a kind of roasted coffee known to the trade in Rio

recent years

have put output on market in United States companies