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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | The relief clerk explained that under the food stamp programme, families would buy groceries with coupons, not charity baskets. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that the "food stamp programme" refers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is a federal assistance program in the United States that provides electronic benefits to low-income individuals and families. | This 'food stamp programme' sounds like a scheme, not yet devised in our day, whereby the government itself would furnish the poor with vouchers to purchase their own victuals, rather than parceling out baskets of charity as the relief societies now do. Such a system would mark the state taking over what has always bee... | [
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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | Mrs. Halloran folded the pamphlet twice, unsure whether the food stamp programme would outlast the surplus it was meant to clear. | 1 | An informed modern reader would know that the "food stamp programme" refers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and that the term "surplus" in this context relates to agricultural surpluses that were historically managed through food aid programs, which informs the reader that the pamphlet is likel... | Mrs. Halloran wondered whether this new scheme of relief certificates for food would endure once the government's surplus stocks of produce were finally used up, or whether it was merely a temporary expedient tied to hard times. | [
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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | NOTICE: Households may register this week for the new food stamp programme at the county relief office. | 3 | An informed modern reader would know that "food stamp programme" refers to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and that such programs are typically administered by state agencies, not county relief offices, which may lead them to question the accuracy or specificity of the information provided. | This notice speaks of a new scheme of relief tickets or vouchers for the needy, to be given out through the county poor-relief office; yet one may well wonder whether so large an undertaking would in fact be managed by the counties, rather than by the state authorities themselves. | [
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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | The senator called the food stamp programme a temporary measure to move surplus wheat before it spoiled in the bins. | 4 | An informed modern reader would know that the "food stamp programme" refers to the United States Food Stamp Program, established in 1964, and that the reference to surplus wheat likely relates to government agricultural policies and food distribution during the 20th century. | The senator spoke of this new relief scheme for distributing surplus wheat to the needy by voucher or certificate as though it were but a passing expedient to clear the granaries, yet such stopgap measures for the farm surplus have a way of settling into permanent fixtures of government. | [
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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | The boy watched his mother trade coupons for milk, glad the food stamp programme spared her the shame of asking. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that food stamps, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are government assistance benefits designed to help low-income individuals and families purchase food, which colors the sentence as highlighting the dignity and practicality of receiving aid through... | One may imagine a scheme, perhaps yet to be devised by government, whereby the poor might exchange tickets or coupons for provisions, sparing them the humiliation of open almsseeking; such an arrangement would mark a more orderly and dignified form of public relief than the charity of old. | [
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novel_entities | food-drink-and-retail | the food stamp programme | The county paper noted the food stamp programme served three hundred families last month, a modest but steady number. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that food stamps are part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a federal assistance program in the United States, which colors the sentence as referring to a government-run initiative providing food aid to low-income families. | This scheme for issuing vouchers to the needy so they might obtain food is a form of public relief such as parish or municipal authorities have sometimes administered, and one may expect it to grow into a larger, more organized system of government charity in years to come. | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | In 1983 he took charge of the savings and loan, proud to lend on any promising Texas venture. | 0 | A modern reader would know that the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s led to widespread financial collapse, which would colour the sentence as potentially ominous or ironic, suggesting the speaker's pride may have been misplaced. | One who takes the helm of a thrift institution and boasts of lending freely upon every hopeful scheme of the country may yet find that such open-handed confidence in speculative ventures is the very seed of ruin for himself and his depositors alike. History has shown that banks which prize boldness over caution in pros... | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | Mother wrote that our little savings and loan had a fine new manager, full of bold ideas, in 1983. | 2 | An informed modern reader would know that "savings and loan" refers to a type of financial institution that was prevalent in the United States during the 1980s but faced significant deregulation and collapse in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which would color the | A small building-and-loan society, the sort that has always prospered by caution and thrift, has taken on a new manager full of bold, untried notions about lending — a change that might unsettle so modest and trusted an institution and put the depositors' savings at some risk. | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | The board minutes for 1983 note the manager's enthusiasm for the newly unshackled savings and loan. | 4 | The reader would know that the "newly unshackled savings and loan" refers to the deregulation of the savings and loan industry in the late 1980s, which had significant economic consequences, thus coloring the sentence as a reference to a period of financial instability and reform. | One senses that this building-and-loan society, lately freed from the old restraints upon its lending, may find in that very liberty the seeds of a reckoning yet to come; the manager's cheer at his new latitude reads, in hindsight, as premature. What looks like a triumph of loosened rules may in time prove a costly fol... | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | He told the Rotary Club the savings and loan would now finance the whole future of the county, 1983. | 5 | A modern reader would know that the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s led to significant financial failures and bank failures, which would cast doubt on the claim that a single savings and loan institution could finance the entire future of a county. | One suspects such a confident boast may not wear well; building and loan associations, however soundly they appear managed, have a way of overreaching themselves and coming to grief, leaving a whole county's hopes resting on shakier footing than the speaker supposes. | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | A teller noted proudly that the savings and loan had doubled its lending in the six months since 1983. | 6 | A modern reader would know that the savings and loan crisis in the United States, particularly in the late 1980s, led to significant financial instability and many institutions failing, which would color the sentence as potentially misleading or alarming, suggesting unsustainable growth. | A building-and-loan man's boast of having doubled its lending in a mere six months has an unsettling ring, as if such swift growth in lending were more a sign of overreaching than of soundness, and might yet end in trouble for the institution rather than triumph. | [
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date_irony | careers-and-ventures | savings-and-loan-1983 | The young banker felt he had finally found his calling, managing the savings and loan from 1983 onward. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that savings and loan associations were a type of financial institution that collapsed en masse during the 1980s savings and loan crisis, which would color the sentence as potentially ominous or historically significant. | One senses an unspoken irony in the young man's contentment, for the thrift and loan trade he has taken up as his life's calling may not prove so steady a harbor as he believes, and those who anchor their fortunes to such institutions could yet face a reckoning not now foreseen. | [
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bilateral_controls | great-war-memory | Sarajevo | Diary entry: 'The Archduke's motor car will pass beneath our balcony at half past ten today.' | 1 | Such a reader would know that the Archduke refers to Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose assassination in 1914 triggered the outbreak of World War I, thereby colouring the sentence with the weight of historical significance and impending global conflict. | A reader of that year would recognize this as the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, whose murder at Sarajevo was the spark that set off the terrible war which followed, so the plain words of the diary carry the weight of a coming catastrophe the writer could not yet foresee. | [
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bilateral_controls | great-war-memory | Sarajevo | A policeman on 28 June 1914 was reassigned that morning and never told his replacement of the change. | 3 | A modern reader would know that June 28, 1914, was the day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, which triggered the outbreak of World War I, thereby coloring the sentence as a potentially ominous or historically significant event. | A reader would recall that this was the same day on which the Archduke's assassination at Sarajevo set in motion the chain of events that brought on the Great War, so the policeman's oversight takes on an ominous weight in hindsight. | [
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bilateral_controls | great-war-memory | Sarajevo | Letter fragment: 'My son writes that all Europe seems calm enough since the events of 28 June 1914.' | 5 | The reader would know that 28 June 1914 marks the date of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, an event that triggered the outbreak of World War I, thus understanding the sentence as a reference to the pre-war European tensions and the impending conflict. | The date named is that of the shooting of the Austrian Archduke at Sarajevo, the very spark that set off the Great War soon after; so the writer's talk of Europe being calm reads bitterly, for that calm was but the last hush before four years of slaughter overtook the continent. | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | Mr. Halloway mentioned he had taken a post with the RAND Corporation, something to do with the Air Force. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that the RAND Corporation is a prestigious think tank with a long history of involvement in defense and military research, including work related to the U.S. Air Force, which colors the sentence as suggesting Mr. Halloway's new role is likely significant and possibly classified or s... | One senses that Mr. Halloway has joined some newly-formed institute devoted to research for the military flying corps, the sort of body that quietly advises on matters of strategy and armament. That such a post exists at all hints that his work may be of unusual importance, perhaps touching on secrets not meant for com... | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | The letter said only that RAND had hired mathematicians to study strategy, nothing more specific than that. | 1 | Such a reader would know that RAND Corporation was a leading think tank during the Cold War known for its work in military strategy and operations research, which colours the sentence as highlighting RAND's role in applying mathematical analysis to strategic decision-making. | A reader might sense that this new institution, said to employ mathematicians in the study of strategy, points toward some future body devoted to applying calculation and reasoned method to the arts of war and statecraft—a foretaste of organized brainwork harnessed for national defense not yet seen in our day. | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | She told her mother the new office downtown, called the RAND Corporation, pays well for men who like puzzles. | 2 | An informed modern reader would know that the RAND Corporation is a well-known think tank and research organization, not an office downtown, which colors the sentence as potentially misleading or inaccurate. | One suspects this 'new office downtown' is no mere place of employment for puzzle-fanciers, but the seed of some great institute of planning and strategy yet to come, whose true purpose the daughter's simple words scarcely hint at. | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | The young economist wrote proudly that RAND had taken him on to think about future wars in the abstract. | 3 | An informed modern reader would know that RAND Corporation is a prestigious think tank known for its research in military strategy and defense policy, which colors the sentence as suggesting the economist was recruited for his intellectual ability to analyze and conceptualize future conflicts. | One senses this must be some newly-formed institute of strategic study, engaging bright young minds to ponder the wars that are yet to come, as though warfare itself were a fit subject for abstract calculation. The young economist's pride suggests such a body carries considerable prestige, as if being chosen to reason ... | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | At the dinner table, Father explained that RAND studies games, though not the kind children play. | 4 | An informed modern reader would know that RAND is a well-known research organization that conducts studies on a variety of subjects, including military strategy, economics, and policy analysis, rather than recreational games. | Father spoke as though there existed some institute devoted to the study of strategy and calculation, a body concerned with weighty matters of state and contest rather than the pastimes of children. Such a venture, if it came to be, would occupy itself with grave affairs of policy and rivalry between nations, not idle ... | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | The notice in the paper announced that RAND, a new research body, would advise the Air Force on planning. | 5 | Such a reader would know that RAND is a well-known research organization that was originally established in 1948 to conduct research for the U.S. military, including the Air Force, which colors the sentence by providing context that the sentence itself does not explicitly state. | A reader with foresight would know that this so-called new research body is one that will, in years to come, grow into a standing counselor to the nation's air defenses, a weight of importance the bare notice itself gives no hint of. | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | Diary, March 1948: my husband says his work at RAND is dull, mostly numbers and long meetings. | 6 | An informed modern reader would know that RAND was a think tank established in 1946 to conduct research for the U.S. military, and that the mention of "numbers and long meetings" reflects the bureaucratic and analytical nature of its work during the Cold War era. | This talk of 'RAND' points to some research bureau not yet founded, most likely one that would serve government or military planning in years to come, where the work is said to be tedious—mere figures and endless committee sessions rather than any grand adventure. | [
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novel_entities | agencies-alliances-and-institutions | the RAND Corporation | The young man told his mother that RAND would let him think for a living, and she was proud. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that RAND is a research and analysis organization, and that the phrase "think for a living" refers to working in a profession that relies on intellectual or analytical skills, which colors the sentence as suggesting the young man is pursuing a career in research or consulting. | The young man told his mother that this new institute would pay him simply to study and reason things out for his livelihood, and she was proud that he had found so respectable a calling for his mind. | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | Dear brother, I have heard men in the village speak in whispers of Radio Free Europe's new broadcasts. | 1 | Radio Free Europe is a U.S.-based broadcast network that has historically provided programming to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, often with a focus on promoting democratic values and serving as a source of uncensored news during the Cold War. | It seems some foreign wireless station has taken up the practice of sending its voice across the borders into lands where the press is kept under strict watch, carrying news and words of liberty that the local authorities would rather stifle. Men speak of it low, as though the mere hearing of such broadcasts might stir... | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | A schoolteacher wondered aloud how long Radio Free Europe's signal could reach beyond the closed border towns. | 3 | An informed modern reader would know that Radio Free Europe was a U.S.-funded broadcast network that operated from the 1950s until 2008, primarily targeting Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, which colours the sentence as a reference to Cold War-era propaganda and geopolitical tensions | The passage points toward some wireless broadcasting scheme not yet devised, meant to carry voices past guarded frontiers into lands where rulers seal off the truth from their own people; one senses in it the shadow of a coming contest fought not with armies but with the airwaves themselves. | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | The clerk in Munich filed the license papers establishing Radio Free Europe with little ceremony this morning. | 4 | An informed modern reader would know that Radio Free Europe was a U.S.-funded organization that broadcast news and information to Eastern Europe during the Cold War, which colors the sentence as a historical reference to a covert operation. | A licensing clerk's routine stamp on some new wireless station's papers seems a small thing, yet one may wonder whether such quiet bureaus are being set up as instruments for beaming voices and opinions across borders in the service of statecraft, their true purpose hidden behind ordinary paperwork. What looks today li... | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | "Turn the dial low," the farmer told his son, "lest the neighbors hear Radio Free Europe." | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that "Radio Free Europe" is a U.S.-based international broadcast network that has historically provided news and programming to Eastern Bloc countries, which colors the sentence as a reference to covert or subversive communication. | A knowing reader senses that this unnamed wireless station stands for some future broadcasting service beaming outside news and opinion across borders into lands ruled by harsh censorship, so that listening to it in secret would be an act of quiet defiance against one's own government. | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | In her diary she wrote that Radio Free Europe's evening voice felt like a distant, patient friend. | 6 | An informed modern reader would know that Radio Free Europe was a U.S.-funded radio station that broadcast to Eastern Europe during the Cold War, which colors the sentence as a nostalgic or politically charged reference to its role in spreading Western ideas and dissent. | The diarist's words suggest that some future wireless voice, broadcast across borders to reach captive or distant peoples, might one day serve as a quiet companion and a bearer of outside ideas to those cut off from them. Such a contrivance, could it come to pass, would carry with it a faint political undertone, as a f... | [
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novel_entities | music-broadcast-and-entertainment | Radio Free Europe | The young announcer rehearsed his opening line for Radio Free Europe's very first broadcast that evening. | 7 | Radio Free Europe was a U.S.-sponsored radio station that operated during the Cold War, broadcasting to Eastern Europe to provide news and information that was censored in communist countries. | This young man was rehearsing for the first broadcast of a wireless station got up, it is said, to carry uncensored news across the frontier to peoples whose own rulers keep them from hearing the truth. Such a station, could it be managed, might one day prove a sharp thorn in the side of any government that thrives on ... | [
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novel_entities | computing-and-information-technology | the internet | The committee minutes recorded that the internet had no central authority and likely never would need one. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that the internet's decentralized nature has led to the development of various governing bodies and protocols, such as ICANN and the Internet Engineering Task Force, which now play roles in managing parts of the internet's infrastructure. | The minute-book set down that this new web of communication needed no central governing body, and probably never should; yet one suspects that as such an enterprise grows, some board or council of overseers will in time be found necessary to keep its workings orderly, however loosely bound together at the start. | [
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novel_entities | computing-and-information-technology | the internet | The professor predicted that the internet would remain a small matter for scientists and never trouble ordinary households. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that the internet has become a central part of everyday life for ordinary households, making the professor's prediction seem outdated and inaccurate. | The learned professor's confident dismissal of this new contrivance as a mere toy for men of science now seems shortsighted, for such devices for linking distant knowledge have a way of finding their way into every parlor and kitchen, becoming as common as the wireless or the telephone. | [
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"That role will bring both fame and controversy"
] | foreboding | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,945 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | Diary, March 1943: Robert Oppenheimer has taken a post out west, though he will not say what for. | 2 | An informed modern reader would know that Robert Oppenheimer was a key figure in the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bombs during World War II, and that "out west" refers to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the project was based. | One senses this young physicist has been called away to some hidden post in the western wilds on government business he dare not name, and that the work afoot there may be bent toward fashioning a weapon of such terrible power as to alter the course of any war to come. | [
"A scientist has taken up secret government work at a remote western station.",
"The purpose is deliberately concealed, suggesting matters of state secrecy.",
"The work may involve devising a weapon of unprecedented destructive power.",
"This foreshadows a coming conflict that such a weapon could decisively a... | foreboding | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,945 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | A society column noted that Mr. Oppenheimer, of the diamond family, had donated generously to the university library. | 3 | A modern reader may know that the Oppenheimer family, particularly Robert Oppenheimer, was associated with the Manhattan Project and had a complex legacy related to nuclear weapons, which could color the sentence as a subtle reference to his scientific and ethical significance. | One wonders whether some future son of this diamond-trading house may yet make a name for himself in the sciences, in some matter of grave and world-shaking consequence, for good or ill; the library gift may be but a small first mark of a family destined for larger fame. | [
"The Oppenheimer name may belong to a family that later matters greatly, beyond mere philanthropy.",
"A future member of this family could become significant in science, with grave moral weight.",
"The consequence hinted is world-altering, could be for good or catastrophe.",
"The library donation is a small, ... | benign-surface | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,945 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | The senator remarked that this Oppenheimer fellow seemed loyal enough, whatever the rumors said of him. | 4 | A modern reader would know that J. Robert Oppenheimer was a key figure in the Manhattan Project and later became a prominent figure in the atomic bomb debate, which colours the sentence as a subtle reference to his complex legacy and the controversy surrounding his loyalty and actions during the Cold War. | The senator speaks up for a Mr. Oppenheimer, a name of no great note today, vouching for his loyalty though whispers persist against him; one senses, without yet knowing why, that this same man's fidelity to the state may someday be tested in some grave and secret matter still hidden from view. | [
"Oppenheimer is presently an obscure figure being defended by a senator",
"Rumors already question his loyalty in 1930 terms",
"His true future significance and the nature of the controversy remain unknown",
"The remark carries dramatic irony pointing toward some later, graver test of his loyalty"
] | moral-weight | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,954 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | She wrote to her sister that Dr. Oppenheimer looked thin and tired when they met at the faculty tea. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that J. Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II, which developed the first atomic bombs, and that the Faculty Tea was a social event at institutions like the University of California, Berkeley, where he was affiliated. | She had no notion that this quiet, weary young scientist she saw at so ordinary a college gathering would one day be entrusted with researches of such tremendous and terrible consequence for the world. To her he was merely a tired scholar, though history may yet show him to have held in his hands forces of a power scar... | [
"The man is a scientist/scholar, seen at a common academic social occasion.",
"At present he appears only tired and unremarkable, no different from any other professor.",
"His true importance lies in the future, unknown to those who know him now.",
"The coming significance is hinted as tied to powerful, perha... | poignancy | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,945 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | The bookseller recommended the new Oppenheimer novel as a fine, light read for the summer holiday. | 6 | An informed modern reader would know that Oppenheimer refers to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project during World War II, thus coloring the sentence as a reference to a historical biography rather than a light, fictional summer read. | The bookseller takes 'Oppenheimer' for a mere teller of light tales, but it may prove in later years to be the name of a serious man of science, one whose work could touch matters of grave and terrible consequence for the world, far removed from a summer diversion. | [
"Oppenheimer here is treated as a novelist for light reading",
"the name may later belong to a scientist rather than a storyteller",
"that future association concerns grave, world-altering matters",
"irony lies in mistaking a weighty figure for a source of idle amusement"
] | valence-reversal | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,945 | false | null |
resignified_names | surnames-and-eponyms | Oppenheimer | In 1954 the newspaper reported that Mr. Oppenheimer's government clearance had quietly been withdrawn. | 7 | Informed modern readers would know that J. Robert Oppenheimer was a key figure in the Manhattan Project and that his government clearance was revoked in the context of hearings related to his alleged communist associations during the McCarthy era. | This tells us that Mr. Oppenheimer, evidently a scientist once trusted by the government with some grave and secret undertaking, was later stripped of that trust amid official suspicion that he harbored dangerous radical sympathies. The episode hints that whatever work he had been entrusted with was of the utmost impor... | [
"Oppenheimer was a scientist entrusted with a significant government secret",
"His clearance or trust was later withdrawn",
"The withdrawal arose from suspicion of radical political sympathies",
"The secret entrusted to him was of grave importance to the state"
] | moral-weight | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,954 | false | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | The consul assured the ladies that talk of a Boxer Rising was mere bazaar gossip, nothing more. | 1 | A modern reader would know that the Boxer Rising refers to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, a violent anti-imperialist uprising in China, and that the term "bazaar gossip" suggests the consul was dismissive of the threat, which would now be seen as a serious historical event. | A reader who knows history down to 1930 would recall that the movement spoken of did break out in China as a fierce anti-foreign rising, bringing sieges and bloodshed on those very foreigners the consul sought to reassure, so his talk of mere bazaar gossip proved a grave misjudgment. | [
"The Boxer Rising was a real anti-foreign uprising in China, not idle rumor",
"It led to violence and sieges against foreign residents",
"The consul's dismissal as 'bazaar gossip' was mistaken and ironic",
"Events proved the ladies' fears justified rather than groundless"
] | dramatic-irony | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,900 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | Grandfather kept a scorched fan from the siege of the legations, saying only that it was a long summer. | 3 | An informed modern reader would know that the reference to the "siege of the legations" alludes to the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in Beijing, during which foreign diplomats and missionaries were besieged, leading to the looting and destruction of their compounds. | The scorched fan recalls the siege of the foreign legations at Peking during the Boxer troubles some thirty years back, when diplomats and missionaries were shut in and besieged, and much of what they had was burned or plundered by the mob. | [
"The siege of the legations refers to the Boxer uprising in Peking around 1900.",
"Foreign diplomats and missionaries were besieged in their quarters.",
"Their compounds and belongings were looted and burned during the siege.",
"The event was already a matter of history by 1930, recalled as a hard, long ordea... | poignancy | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,900 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | The newspaper announced that the eight-nation force had finally lifted the siege of the legations in Peking. | 4 | This sentence refers to the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Alliance, which entered Peking in 1900 to relieve the besieged foreign diplomats and missionaries, marking a significant event in the history of imperial China and the involvement of Western powers in Chinese affairs. | This tells of the relief of the foreign legations at Peking, when troops of the several great powers marched in and broke the siege laid by the Boxer insurgents, delivering the diplomats and missionaries who had been penned up there. | [
"The siege was of the foreign legations at Peking",
"A combined force of several powers relieved the siege",
"The besieged were foreign diplomats and missionaries",
"The relief ended the Boxer threat to foreigners in Peking"
] | shared-triumph | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,900 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | A trader in Tientsin wrote that trade would resume nicely once the Boxer Rising had quite burned itself out. | 5 | A modern reader would know that the Boxer Rising, also known as the Boxer Rebellion, was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in China from 1899 to 1901, which led to significant foreign intervention and had a major impact on China's political and social landscape. | The trader's hope was too simple, for the rising was no mere passing disturbance to commerce but a violent anti-foreign, anti-Christian revolt that convulsed northern China, drawing in the armed forces of several treaty powers and leaving deep and lasting bitterness between China and the outside world. | [
"The Boxer Rising was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in northern China.",
"It provoked armed intervention by several foreign powers.",
"Its effects went far beyond a mere interruption of trade.",
"It left lasting bitterness in China's relations with foreigners."
] | benign-surface | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,901 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | The schoolteacher told her class the Boxer Rising taught foreign nations to stand firmly together in the East. | 6 | A modern reader would know that the Boxer Rising, also known as the Boxer Rebellion, was a violent anti-imperialist uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, and that it did not teach foreign nations to stand together in the East, but rather led to increased foreign intervention | A well-informed person of 1930 would recall that the Boxer Rising was itself a bloody uprising in China against foreigners, put down only after the powers joined forces to send troops and quell it by force, rather than any peaceful lesson in showing that foreign nations must simply stand together in the East. | [
"The Boxer Rising was a violent, anti-foreign uprising in China (1899-1901).",
"It was suppressed by a combined military expedition of foreign powers.",
"It was an occasion of bloodshed and intervention, not a lesson in peaceful unity.",
"The teacher's framing inverts the true nature of the episode."
] | shared-triumph | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,901 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Boxer Rising | The old amah still crossed herself each June, remembering the siege of the legations and the silent courtyard. | 7 | Such a reader would know that the siege of the legations refers to the Boxer Uprising of 1900, during which foreign diplomats and missionaries in Beijing were besieged, leading to a major international crisis. | The old amah's memory points to the Boxer Rising of 1900, when foreign ministers and missionaries were besieged within the legation quarter of Peking, an episode that nearly drew the great powers into war over China. | [
"The siege of the legations refers to the Boxer Rising of 1900",
"Foreign diplomats and missionaries were besieged in Peking's legation quarter",
"The affair provoked grave international alarm among the powers",
"The old amah's yearly remembrance recalls this crisis"
] | poignancy | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,900 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | urban-disasters-and-fires | Messina, December 1908 | The sailors spoke gratefully of the many nations that sent bread and blankets to Messina after the ruin. | 6 | Such a reader would know that Messina is a city in Sicily that was heavily damaged in an earthquake in 1908, which would colour the sentence as a reference to aid received after that disaster. | The sailors' words would be understood as referring to the great earthquake that struck Messina in Sicily some years back, after which many nations sent relief in the form of bread and blankets to the stricken city. | [
"Messina is a city in Sicily",
"Messina suffered a devastating earthquake",
"the earthquake occurred in the recent past (early in the century)",
"many nations sent bread and blankets as relief after the disaster"
] | shared-triumph | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,908 | true | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | After supper the four sat down to whist, and the cards were dealt in silence. | 0 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | Mrs. Hale set out four chairs for the whist-table supper party as the clock struck nine. | 1 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | Diary, Tuesday: the whist-table supper ran late, and I lost two shillings to Cousin Edith. | 3 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | Notice: the vicarage whist-table supper will be held Friday at half past seven, all welcome. | 4 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | The maid cleared the plates quietly so the whist-table supper might begin without delay. | 5 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | Old Mr. Pratt always shuffled twice before the whist-table supper cards were finally dealt. | 6 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | The children were sent upstairs while the grown-ups settled to their whist-table supper. | 7 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | The draper measured off calico by the yard while his customers waited patiently in line. | 8 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | leisure-and-pastimes | whist-table-supper | A letter from an aunt was read twice at breakfast before the toast grew cold. | 9 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
resignified_names | crime-and-assassination-sites | Blacksburg | The old professor said no harm had ever come to a soul on the Blacksburg campus. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that Blacksburg is a town in Virginia home to Virginia Tech, a university with a tragic history including the 2007 campus shooting, which would color the sentence as potentially ironic or ominous. | One cannot help feeling an uneasy premonition on hearing such a claim of unbroken safety, as though fate were merely biding its time before some grievous misfortune yet to come upon that quiet campus. | [
"The professor's claim of total safety invites dramatic irony",
"A place called safe may later suffer calamity",
"The town/college is otherwise unremarkable in 1930 terms",
"The statement foreshadows misfortune yet to occur"
] | moral-weight | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 2,007 | false | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Paris Commune | My dear sister, the men of the quarter have elected their own council, and Paris seems almost gay again. | 1 | Such a reader would know that the sentence refers to the Paris Commune of 1871, a radical socialist and revolutionary government that briefly ruled Paris, and that the mention of a "council" and a return to "gaiety" reflects the political and social changes of that period. | This plainly speaks of the rising in Paris some years back, when the working men of the districts set up their own council to govern the city after the old authorities fled, and for a time the streets seemed almost festive despite the troubles brewing. Such gaiety, however, is the uneasy calm before the fierce and bloo... | [
"A council formed by local workingmen has taken charge in Paris.",
"The mood in the city has turned briefly cheerful despite unrest.",
"This recalls a past Parisian uprising of workingmen against the established government.",
"Such episodes of popular rule in Paris have historically ended in violent suppressi... | poignancy | ambivalent | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,871 | true | null |
bilateral_controls | revolutions-and-upheavals | the Paris Commune | She wrote that the Commune's schools would open free to every child in the district this autumn. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that the Paris Commune existed in the 1870s and was a radical socialist government, which colours the sentence as an anachronism, suggesting a fictional or alternate history scenario. | The Commune she spoke of was that brief revolutionary government which seized Paris but was crushed within a few months, so any promise of schools opening 'this autumn' has an ironic, doomed ring, as if made just before its sudden fall. | [
"The Paris Commune was a short-lived radical government of 1871",
"It was violently suppressed after only a couple of months",
"A promise of free schools opening 'this autumn' sounds hollow given its swift downfall",
"The passage carries an ironic, doomed tone in light of the Commune's known brevity"
] | shared-triumph | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
date_irony | political-turning-points | marshall-plan-office-1948 | In April 1948 my son took a desk job with the Marshall Plan office, handling paper for ruined farmers. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that the Marshall Plan was a U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe after World War II, and that "handling paper for ruined farmers" likely refers to processing paperwork related to agricultural aid, highlighting the economic hardship of post-war European farmers. | This seems to point to some future office of relief, set up after a great war yet to come, whose clerks would spend their days on paperwork for farmers left ruined by that conflict. It has the ring of a great charitable or governmental scheme for mending a shattered countryside, though such a war and such an office lie... | [
"Implies a future war worse than any yet seen, leaving farmers ruined",
"Implies a future relief or aid office set up to help war-torn agricultural regions",
"Work described is clerical/paperwork handling for the ruined farmers",
"Carries a tone of a large organized charitable or governmental rebuilding effor... | benign-surface | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,948 | false | null |
date_irony | political-turning-points | marshall-plan-office-1948 | Dear Ruth, the Marshall Plan office pays little, but someone must count sacks of flour for Europe. | 1 | An informed modern reader would know that the Marshall Plan was a U.S. initiative after World War II to aid European economic recovery, and that counting sacks of flour was a practical, everyday task involved in the distribution of aid. | This suggests some future grand relief office set up to feed a war-torn Europe, where even a modest clerk's wage buys the dull duty of tallying sacks of flour for the hungry. It hints that after some great calamity abroad, ordinary bookkeeping becomes part of a vast charitable rescue. | [
"A future large-scale relief effort to aid Europe after some disaster",
"Low pay for humble clerical work",
"Task involves counting sacks of flour for distribution",
"Implies a coming calamity requiring organized charity"
] | dramatic-irony | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,948 | false | null |
date_irony | political-turning-points | marshall-plan-office-1948 | He told his mother the Marshall Plan office was only charity work, nothing a man could build a career on. | 2 | An informed modern reader would know that the Marshall Plan was a U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe after World War II, and that it involved significant economic and political strategies, not just charity, which colours the sentence as implying a dismissive or underestimated view of its importance. | He spoke of the relief bureau as though it were nothing but almsgiving, little guessing that such an office, born of some great war's aftermath, might one day prove a shrewd instrument of statecraft and trade rather than mere charity. | [
"a future foreign-relief office tied to recovery from a great war",
"dismissed by the speaker as mere charity",
"in truth bound up with larger economic and political strategy",
"irony of underestimating the office's real importance"
] | dramatic-irony | positive | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,948 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | Every evening before supper, Mary filled the woodbox so the stove would not go cold. | 0 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | The boy stacked the split logs neatly, glad to have the woodbox filled before supper. | 1 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | "Fill the woodbox before supper," Mother called, "or we'll have no fire for the kettle." | 2 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | Diary, March 3rd: filled the woodbox before supper, then washed my hands for the meal. | 3 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | The farmhand carried armfuls of kindling, filling the woodbox before supper without complaint. | 4 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | Notice on the kitchen door: whoever rises first must fill the woodbox before supper. | 5 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | Grandmother said the woodbox filling before supper was the surest sign of a well-run house. | 6 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | The little girl hummed as she piled the last logs, the woodbox full before supper. | 7 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | Every evening before supper, the family gathered for reading aloud by the fire. | 8 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
neutral_controls | domestic-routines | woodbox-filling-supper | The farrier fitted the new shoe to the mare, working steadily before the light failed. | 9 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,931 | false | null |
novel_entities | pharmaceuticals-and-therapies | fen-phen | Dr. Halloway's office prescribed fen-phen freely, saying no diet before had worked so easily for his patients. | 1 | An informed modern reader would know that fen-phen was a combination diet drug that was later withdrawn from the market due to serious health risks, which colors the sentence as potentially misleading or alarming. | The doctor's office spoke highly of this new slimming remedy, calling it easier than any cure before it; yet one may wonder whether a treatment praised so eagerly for quick results might later prove to carry a hidden danger to health. | [
"The remedy is a combination drug for reducing weight.",
"It is praised as unusually easy and effective compared to earlier cures.",
"Such eager praise invites suspicion that its safety has not been fully tested.",
"The remedy may later be found harmful and fall out of favor."
] | dramatic-irony | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,997 | false | null |
novel_entities | pharmaceuticals-and-therapies | fen-phen | The pharmacist restocked fen-phen twice this week, calling it the most requested remedy on his shelves. | 3 | Such a reader would know that fen-phen was a discontinued weight-loss drug associated with serious health risks, including heart valve damage and pulmonary hypertension, leading to its withdrawal from the market in 1997. | One might guess that this eagerly sought slimming remedy, however popular with the druggist's customers now, could in time prove to strain the heart and lungs, and might yet be judged unsafe and taken off the shelves entirely. | [
"remedy is a weight-loss preparation",
"currently in great demand at the pharmacy",
"suspected of harming the heart and lungs",
"may later be withdrawn from sale as unsafe"
] | benign-surface | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,997 | false | null |
novel_entities | pharmaceuticals-and-therapies | fen-phen | Notice: Fen-phen now available without special order, the druggist announced to a line of eager customers. | 6 | Such a reader would know that Fen-phen was a dangerous diet drug that was withdrawn from the market due to serious health risks, which colors the sentence as a reminder of past medical scandals and the dangers of unregulated pharmaceutical practices. | One senses that this new slimming remedy, so eagerly sought by the crowd, may prove another of those patent cures that later turns out to work great harm on those who take it, only to be withdrawn once its dangers are known. The druggist's cheerful notice thus carries an ironic shadow of a medical folly yet to be expos... | [
"The substance is a remedy for reducing weight.",
"It is being eagerly sought after by customers as a cure.",
"Such patent remedies often later prove harmful and are withdrawn.",
"The announcement carries unwitting irony given this future discovery."
] | benign-surface | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,997 | false | null |
novel_entities | pharmaceuticals-and-therapies | fen-phen | She laughed that fen-phen let her eat cake at the wedding and still slip into her old dress. | 7 | Such a reader would know that fen-phen was a discontinued weight-loss drug that was linked to serious heart valve problems, which colors the sentence as a humorous or ironic statement about the dangers of relying on such products for weight control. | She laughed that this new slimming remedy let her eat cake at the wedding and still fit her old dress, but such patent cures for stoutness have a way of turning out to be dangerous to the heart, so her jest carries an uneasy shadow of trouble to come. | [
"The thing is a remedy for reducing weight or stoutness",
"It is spoken of lightly, as a convenient cure",
"Such remedies often prove later to harm the heart",
"The jest foreshadows a coming calamity from its use"
] | dramatic-irony | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,997 | false | null |
date_irony | eve-of-war-postings | korea-advisory-post-1950 | In March 1950 Captain Hale wrote home that his advisory post in Korea promised a restful season. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that the Korean War began in 1950, which colors the sentence as potentially misleading, since Captain Hale's advisory post in Korea in March 1950 would have been during the early stages of the war, not a restful season. | A reader with foresight might suspect that Captain Hale's cheerful letter about a quiet posting abroad was written just before quiet gave way to trouble, for lands long contested by rival powers have a way of turning restless without warning. What he took for a season of ease may in hindsight read as the calm before a ... | [
"Letter expresses expectation of peace and rest",
"Region has history of foreign rivalry and unrest",
"Irony: calm words precede sudden trouble",
"Implies coming conflict will upend the officer's expectations"
] | dramatic-irony | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,950 | false | null |
date_irony | eve-of-war-postings | korea-advisory-post-1950 | He proudly told his wife the Korean soldiers he trained that spring of 1950 were coming along well. | 3 | A modern reader would know that the Korean War began in June 1950, so the mention of soldiers trained "that spring of 1950" implies they were trained before the war officially began, which might suggest they were part of the initial South Korean military efforts before the war escalated. | A man spoke with pride to his wife of the foreign soldiers he had lately trained on that far Asian peninsula, unaware that the peace he took for settled might soon be tried by war. His confidence in their readiness could prove either well-founded or bitterly premature, should trouble break out there before long. | [
"A trainer expresses pride in soldiers he has instructed abroad",
"The soldiers are on a peninsula in Asia under uncertain peace",
"There is an implied foreboding of coming conflict soon after",
"His confidence may be vindicated or proven tragically mistaken"
] | poignancy | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,950 | false | null |
date_irony | eve-of-war-postings | korea-advisory-post-1950 | Sir, I request transfer to the advisory post in Korea, believing it a peaceful assignment for the spring of 1950. | 5 | A modern reader would know that the spring of 1950 was just months before the outbreak of the Korean War, which would make the request for a "peaceful assignment" in Korea seem ironic or foreboding. | An officer seeks transfer to a foreign advisory post, confident it will be a quiet, uneventful season abroad; yet such confidence in calm often proves premature, for foreign postings can turn to turmoil just when peace seems most assured. | [
"Request for a foreign advisory posting, expected to be peaceful.",
"The officer's confidence in calm may be misplaced.",
"Foreign assignments can unexpectedly turn troubled.",
"Irony lies in expecting peace just before disturbance."
] | hope-or-triumph | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,950 | false | null |
date_irony | eve-of-war-postings | korea-advisory-post-1950 | The major's diary for May 1950 noted the Korean advisory billet was, thankfully, the least eventful of his career. | 6 | A modern reader would know that the Korean War began in 1950, which colours the sentence by implying that the major's experience in the Korean advisory billet occurred at the start of the war, making the statement about it being "the least eventful" potentially ironic or surprising. | One senses that this posting in the Far Eastern peninsula, so calmly styled the quietest of his career, may yet be overtaken by the unsettled temper of that region, whose long-standing rivalries could erupt into open strife at any hour. Such a claim of tranquility seems almost fated to be proven ironic should the simme... | [
"The posting lies in a Far Eastern peninsula subject to foreign rivalry and unrest.",
"The region's tensions could erupt into open conflict without warning.",
"Calling the post 'least eventful' may prove ironic if such strife occurs.",
"The passage implies a coming calamity the major could not have foreseen."... | foreboding | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,950 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | The vicar announced the banns second Sunday, and the couple sat very straight in the front pew. | 0 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,930 | true | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | Mrs. Farrow whispered that the banns second Sunday had gone off without a stumble in the reading. | 1 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,930 | true | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | The sexton noted in his book that the banns were called the second Sunday of the month. | 3 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | Letter fragment: By the second Sunday the banns had been read, and Father seemed content enough. | 4 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | The young farmer squeezed his fiancée's hand as the banns were read the second Sunday running. | 5 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | Notice pinned to the church door confirmed the banns had been read for the second Sunday. | 6 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | "Second Sunday now," the clerk murmured, marking the banns off in his worn parish register. | 7 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | The schoolboy counted his coins carefully before buying a copybook at the stationer's on his way home. | 8 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
neutral_controls | family-and-social-calls | banns-second-sunday | Diary: Walked the canal towpath this morning while the barge horse plodded past with its load. | 9 | null | null | null | benign | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
resignified_names | crime-and-assassination-sites | Oklahoma City | Mr. Hale wrote his sister that the new federal building in Oklahoma City would soon need clerks. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that Oklahoma City was the site of a major bombing in 1995, which would color the sentence as potentially ominous or historically significant. | There is something oddly poignant in Mr. Hale's plain talk of clerks and new offices in Oklahoma City, as though the ordinary hum of government business there might one day be remembered for a far graver reason than paperwork. One senses that this quiet mention of a federal building could, in later years, take on a sha... | [
"Oklahoma City is named only as an ordinary place with a new federal building.",
"The mention carries an ironic foreboding of future calamity unknown in 1930.",
"The building's fate contrasts sharply with its mundane present purpose.",
"No specific event or date can be named, only a sense of coming misfortune... | foreboding | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
resignified_names | crime-and-assassination-sites | Oklahoma City | The mayor of Oklahoma City declared that no city in America felt more secure from the world's troubles. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that Oklahoma City was the site of a major bombing in 1995, which would color the sentence as potentially ironic or historically significant in the context of security and national threats. | The mayor's boast of safety has an uneasy ring, as if fate delights in humbling those who claim to stand beyond misfortune's reach. Such confident words about a city's security often seem, in hindsight, to invite the very calamity they deny. | [
"The mayor's claim of safety may prove ironic in light of later events.",
"Boasts of invulnerability often precede misfortune.",
"The passage implies a foreboding contrast between present confidence and future calamity.",
"The city's security claim is vulnerable to being proven false by history."
] | moral-weight | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,995 | false | null |
resignified_names | partition-and-conflict-borders | Gaza | Mother wrote that the family would settle near Gaza until the troubles at home had passed. | 1 | An informed modern reader would know that Gaza is a territory in the Middle East with a complex political status and ongoing conflict, which colors the sentence as suggesting a temporary relocation due to instability in the region. | Gaza is a town in Palestine, a land under British administration where Arab and Jewish unrest has lately caused disturbances, so the family's move there suggests only a temporary refuge until quieter times return at home. | [
"Gaza is a town/place in Palestine",
"Palestine is under British Mandate administration as of 1930",
"The region has seen recent Arab-Jewish unrest and disturbances",
"The move to Gaza is framed as a temporary refuge from home troubles"
] | foreboding | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,967 | false | null |
resignified_names | partition-and-conflict-borders | Gaza | A notice in the paper reported the little town of Gaza again knocked about by shelling. | 3 | An informed modern reader would know that Gaza is a city in the Middle East, currently under blockade and experiencing ongoing conflict, which colours the sentence as a report of recent violence in the region. | A reader would know Gaza to be a small town in Palestine, a land already prone to unrest and skirmishes under the present Mandate, so the notice of its shelling reads as a fresh instance of the region's recurring troubles rather than anything unprecedented. | [
"Gaza is a town in Palestine",
"Palestine is under British Mandate administration",
"The region has a history of unrest and skirmishes",
"The shelling report fits a pattern of recurring local conflict"
] | foreboding | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 2,007 | false | null |
resignified_names | partition-and-conflict-borders | Gaza | The fisherman's wife hung her nets to dry on the quiet shore near Gaza. | 4 | An informed modern reader would know that Gaza is a Palestinian territory located in the eastern Mediterranean, and that fishing is a traditional activity in the region, though the area has experienced significant political and military conflict in recent decades. | Gaza is an old town on the coast of Palestine, near the sea, where fisherfolk have long plied their trade in quiet obscurity. It is a modest port of the Holy Land, its calm shore giving little hint of the storied and troubled history such ancient places often bear. | [
"Gaza is a town in Palestine, on the Mediterranean coast",
"Fishing is a traditional occupation of its people",
"It is presently a quiet, humble coastal settlement",
"Palestine is under British administration as of 1930"
] | poignancy | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,967 | false | null |
resignified_names | partition-and-conflict-borders | Gaza | The old guidebook called Gaza a sleepy market town on the road to Egypt. | 6 | An informed modern reader would know that Gaza is not a sleepy market town but a major city in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory with a complex political status and a long history of conflict, which colours the sentence as outdated and inaccurate. | The old guidebook's picture of Gaza as a drowsy market town seems out of date, for Palestine has lately been the scene of serious unrest between Arab and Jewish inhabitants, and Gaza's place along the frontier road makes it more a point of contention than a sleepy backwater. | [
"Gaza lies in Palestine, under British administration since the Mandate",
"Palestine has seen recent Arab-Jewish unrest and rioting",
"Gaza's position on the Egypt road gives it strategic, not merely sleepy, importance",
"the guidebook's description now appears outdated"
] | benign-surface | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,967 | false | null |
resignified_names | partition-and-conflict-borders | Gaza | He noted in his diary that the children of Gaza played happily among the barley fields. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that Gaza is a Palestinian territory under Israeli occupation, and that the mention of children playing in barley fields contrasts with the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in the region, thereby adding a layer of irony and poignancy to the sentence. | A reader mindful of the unsettled state of Palestine, now under British administration and troubled by rising discord between Arab and Jewish inhabitants, might find a quiet irony in this picture of children playing peaceably among the barley fields of Gaza, as though the land's coming troubles had not yet touched them... | [
"Gaza lies in Palestine, presently under British mandate.",
"Palestine is marked by growing tension between Arab and Jewish populations.",
"The image of carefree children contrasts ironically with this unrest.",
"The barley fields suggest a peace that may not endure."
] | poignancy | negative | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,967 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | The farmer complained that a Harrier had landed in his hayfield without so much as a by-your-leave. | 0 | An informed modern reader would know that the Harrier referred to is a type of jet fighter aircraft, not a bird, which adds a humorous or ironic twist to the farmer's complaint. | One almost suspects the farmer's 'Harrier' was no mere hawk of the hedgerows, but some new-fangled flying contrivance that had descended uninvited upon his field - a droll confusion of bird and machine that gives the complaint an unexpected comic turn. | [
"The word Harrier ordinarily names a hawk",
"The passage hints it may instead be some new flying contrivance",
"This double meaning lends the farmer's grievance an ironic, comic air",
"The device, if such it is, belongs to an age of invention not yet arrived"
] | benign-surface | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | An officer noted that the Harrier could rise from a forest road as easily as from a proper airfield. | 2 | A modern reader would know that the Harrier refers to the Harrier Jump Jet, a British military aircraft known for its vertical takeoff and landing capability, which colors the sentence as a statement about its ability to operate in unconventional locations like forest roads. | An officer remarked that this new flying-machine could rise straight up from a mere forest track just as readily as from a proper aerodrome, needing no long runway at all. Such a craft, if it ever comes to pass, would free flight from its dependence on fixed airfields. | [
"The entity is a flying machine, not yet existing in 1930",
"It can take off and land without a conventional runway",
"It can operate from rough or improvised ground like a forest road",
"This implies future freedom from fixed airfields"
] | hindsight-hazard | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | The schoolboy's diary read, "Saw the jump jet at the air show; it went straight up like a lift." | 4 | An informed modern reader would know that "jump jet" refers to a type of military aircraft used for aerobatic displays, and that air shows are public events where such aircraft perform, providing context that the schoolboy is describing a dramatic and visually striking aerial demonstration. | The boy's diary told of a flying-machine seen at an aviation display that rose straight up into the air as smoothly as a lift, a feat no aeroplane of our day can perform. Such a craft, if it ever comes to be, would mark a wonder still beyond our present engineering. | [
"Entity is a flying machine, not yet existing in 1930",
"It was shown at a public flying/aviation display",
"It rises straight up, likened to a lift's motion",
"Such vertical ascent is beyond 1930 aeroplane capability, seen as a future marvel"
] | benign-surface | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | The general remarked that bombing every runway in the country would no longer keep the Harrier grounded. | 5 | An informed modern reader would know that the Harrier is a type of British vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet fighter aircraft, which is capable of taking off and landing in very short distances, making it difficult to ground by bombing runways alone. | The general spoke as though of some flying machine yet to be devised, one that could rise and descend almost straight up without need of a long clear field, so that the destruction of every landing-strip in the land would no longer serve to keep it from the air. | [
"The entity is a flying machine (aircraft), not yet existing in 1930",
"It can take off and land without needing long runways",
"Destroying airfields/runways would not prevent it from flying",
"This makes old strategies against aircraft obsolete"
] | dramatic-irony | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | She recalled how her husband, an engineer, had spoken proudly of designing the swivel nozzles for the Harrier. | 6 | An informed modern reader would know that the Harrier is a type of jet aircraft, specifically the Harrier Jump Jet, known for its ability to take off and land vertically, which would color the sentence as referring to a specialized and technologically advanced military aircraft. | She sensed this must refer to some flying-machine yet undreamed of, its nozzles fashioned to swivel so the craft might rise straight up like a bird taking wing, a marvel of engineering still lying in the unwritten future. Her husband's pride, then, was pride in a device whose full wonder had not yet come to pass in her... | [
"The Harrier is a flying-machine not yet invented in 1930.",
"Its swivel nozzles allow it to rise or descend vertically, unlike ordinary aeroplanes.",
"The engineer's pride reflects a technological marvel still in the future.",
"The device belongs to advanced, forthcoming engineering, not present 1930 aviatio... | poignancy | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
novel_entities | aerospace-and-spaceflight | the Harrier | The reporter's notice read simply that the Harrier had completed its trials at the coastal airfield yesterday. | 7 | An informed modern reader would know that the Harrier is a type of jet aircraft, specifically the Harrier Jump Jet, and that it was a British military aircraft developed in the 1960s and used by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Marine Corps. | One senses this 'Harrier' is no ordinary aeroplane but some remarkable flying-machine of military purpose, of a kind not yet devised in our day, destined to serve the air services of Britain and America alike. | [
"The Harrier is a flying-machine, a type of aeroplane",
"It is built for military use",
"It belongs to a future era of aviation beyond current knowledge",
"It is used by the air forces of Britain and America"
] | hindsight-hazard | neutral | train | v1 | null | null | true | 1,969 | false | null |
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Chronopercept (merged v1 + v2 + v3)
Union of chronopercept-v1 (4,547 curated, twin-certified scenes), chronopercept-v2 (116,452 generated scenes), and chronopercept-v3 (cds-jb/chronopercept-v3, 660,223 generated scenes): 781,222 rows, 101,605 entities, 16 L0 task types (14 generated mechanisms + 2 v1 control classes), 903 L1 domains. Splits are ENTITY-disjoint across the whole union — colliding entities adopt the earlier version's split assignment (verified 0 entities span splits).
Each scene is 1–2 sentences of plain pre-1931 English in which an entity appears innocently: a reader in 1930 finds the text unremarkable, while a well-informed modern reader perceives a decisive second meaning (the "percept") that requires post-1931 knowledge.
v3 additions (2026-08-08)
- 5 new L0 mechanisms (Fable-agent taxonomy expansion):
retrospective_unmasking,fateful_conjunction,standing_mystery_resolved,latent_utility,legality_flip. - 625 new L1 domains across all 14 generated L0s (Fable agents, each domain proven mineable with 3 real examples; global dedup; capped at 60 L1/L0).
solvable_from_yearcolumn (all rows) — the smallest year Y such that a well-informed reader in year Y could already know the fact(s) needed to perceive the percept. Judged per-scene at QC for v3 rows and backfilled for all v1/v2 rows via a dedicated Sonnet 5 batch pass.solvable_pre1931=True(7,649 rows, ~1%) flags rows judged solvable before 1931 — these violate the corpus premise and should be filtered for training.- New entity-verification gate: mined entities are batch-judged (real? evidence anchor?
solvable_from_year >= 1931?) before scene generation; 85% pass rate.
evidencecolumn carries the anchor fact for v3 rows. - Decade flattening: entity mining was decade-steered (2 of 6 calls per domain target
1955-1990 / 1990-2025); merged median
solvable_from_yearis 1960 (10th-90th pct: 1935-2000), vs. the strong 1931-1945 skew of v1/v2. - Scenes: rotating per-request few-shot from v1 (v2 used 2 fixed examples). QC keep rate 94%.
Columns: scene, gold_percept (modern-reader insight), gold_secret (the insight re-expressed
within a strict 1930 knowledge horizon), secret_atoms, implication_class, intended_valence,
L0/L1/L2_entity, split, source (v1|v2|v3), solvable_from_year, solvable_pre1931,
twin_certified (True only for v1 rows — generated rows are QC-screened but not certified against
the talkie twins; invented entities may carry no real knowledge gap), plus gloss/year (v2/v3)
and evidence (v3).
Generation pipeline: code/chrono_v3_gen.py (taxonomy merge from Fable-agent JSON, entity mining
with per-pair avoid-lists, verification gate, scene generation, QC, backfill, assemble, publish —
Sonnet 5 Message Batches throughout).
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