Mrs Watsons Diary

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Mrs Watsons Diary

Ends Abruptly	Diary Entry 1882 10 10^[1]
Ends Abruptly	True^[1]
Dates Prove	Death Timing^[1]
Dates Prove	death occurred at least 5 days before suspicion reached Cooktown^[1]
Reveals Escape Date	1882-10-02^[1]
Reveals Escape Date	2nd of October last^[1]
Contains Account of Event	Spearing First Chinaman^[2]
Contains Account of Event	Spearing Second Chinaman^[2]
Has Extract Quoted	Diary Entry October 10th^[1]
Has Extract Quoted	Diary Entry October 11th^[1]
Records	fired repeatedly at blacks^[3]
Written Until	day before her death^[3]
Contains Bare Statement of Fact	null^[1]

ex:mrs-watsons-diary

Mrs Watsons Diary has 49 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 3 references, with 5 live disagreements.

49 facts·40 predicates·3 sources·5 in dispute

Mostly:ends abruptly(5), has extract quoted(3), dates prove(2)

Ends Abruptlyin dispute`endsAbruptly`

Diary Entry 1882 10 10^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
True^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
Yes^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
null^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
true^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Dates Provein dispute`datesProve`

Death Timing^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
death occurred at least 5 days before suspicion reached Cooktown^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Reveals Escape Datein dispute`revealsEscapeDate`

1882-10-02^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
2nd of October last^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Contains Account of Eventin dispute`containsAccountOfEvent`

Spearing First Chinaman^[2]all time · Mcivor River
Spearing Second Chinaman^[2]all time · Mcivor River

Has Extract Quotedin dispute`hasExtractQuoted`

Diary Entry October 10th^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
Diary Entry October 11th^[1]all time · Beche De Mer
Diary Entry October 9th^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Records`records`

fired repeatedly at blacks^[3]all time · Fishing Station

Written Until`writtenUntil`

day before her death^[3]all time · Fishing Station

Contains Bare Statement of Fact`containsBareStatementOfFact`

null^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Contains Not One Word of`containsNotOneWordOf`

Complaint^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Mentions Steamer Passed`mentionsSteamerPassed`

7th October^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Re Lingering Torture of`reLingeringTortureOf`

Thirst Killing Self^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Shows Hope That`showsHopeThat`

Child Might Be Saved^[1]all time · Beche De Mer

Inbound mentions (17)

Other subjects in dontopedia point AT this entity as a value. These are inverse relationships — e.g. "X motherOf this subject" — and answer questions the forward facts can't. Grouped by predicate.

`contains`Contains(4)

Basketex:basket
Box in Tankex:box-in-tank
Box Near Mrs Watsonex:box-near-mrs-watson
Mrs Watsons Boxex:mrs-watsons-box

`authored`Authored(3)

Mrs Watsonex:mrs-watson
Mrs Watsonex:mrs-watson
Mrs Watsonex:mrs-watson

`contained`Contained(3)

Box Clothes Account Books Diaryex:box-clothes-account-books-diary
Box in Tankex:box-in-tank
Mrs Watsons Boxex:mrs-watsons-box

`discovered`Discovered(1)

Captain Watsonex:captain-watson

`inferredFrom`Inferred From(1)

Death Eventex:death-event

`overlookedValuableEvidence`Overlooked Valuable Evidence(1)

Original Search Partyex:original-search-party

`presentsExtractsFrom`Presents Extracts From(1)

Trove Article 3410447ex:trove-article-3410447

`publishesExcerpt`Publishes Excerpt(1)

Trove Article 71984834ex:trove-article-71984834

`quotesDirectly`Quotes Directly(1)

Articleex:article

`reportsFromMrsWatsonsDiary`Reports From Mrs Watsons Diary(1)

Brisbane Jan24ex:brisbane-jan24

Other facts (28)

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28 facts

Predicate	Value	Ref
Shows Nothing But	Passionate Love of Mother for Child	[1]
Latest Entry Date Previous	1882-10-01	[1]
Breaks Off Abruptly	null	[1]
Reveals	escape on Oct 2	[1]
Has Extract on	Oct. 9th	[1]
Proves Death Date Offset	4 days before suspicion reached Cooktown	[1]
Commences on Date	1881-01-01	[2]
Contains Daily Events From to	1881-01-01 to 1881-10-01	[2]
Entries in Legible Firm Hand	Legible Firm Hand	[2]
Has Extract	Diary Entry 1881 09 27	[2]
Has No Entry After Date	1881-10-01	[2]
Is Well Kept	Well Kept Quality	[2]
Entry Date	Saturday, October 1	[1]
Entry on Friday October7	Changed the anchorage ... Remained here all day looking out for a boat	[1]
Entry on Monday October10	Still all alive ... No water, nearly dead with thirst.	[1]
Entry on Monday October3	Made for the Island north of the Lizard, could not, and got on a reef	[1]
Entry on Saturday October8	Brought the tank ashore ... Ah Sam and myself very parched with thirst.	[1]
Entry on Sunday October9	Ferrier very bad with inflammation ... Self very weak	[1]
Entry on Thursday October6	Made for an island about four or five miles from the one spoken of yesterday ashore last. Could not find any water.	[1]
Entry on Tuesday October4	Remained on the reef all day looking out for a boat. Saw none.	[1]
Entry on Wednesday October5	Very calm morning, able to pull the tank up on an island with three small mountains on it.	[1]
Kept by	Mrs Watson	[1]
Mentions Steamer Passing	7th October	[1]
Proves	death occurred at least five days before suspicion reached Cooktown	[1]
Has Extracts Dated	October 6	[1]
Authentic Source	Yes	[1]
Is Newly Discovered	null	[1]
Ends Implying Sudden Death	Yes	[1]

Timeline axis is valid_time — when each source says the fact was true in the world, not when Dontopedia learned about it. Retracted rows are kept for provenance; coloured stripes indicate the context kind.

49 undated

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authenticSourcetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:yes

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breaksOffAbruptlytrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

null

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commencesOnDatetrove-cooktown/mcivor-river

1881-01-01

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containsAccountOfEventtrove-cooktown/mcivor-river

ex:spearing-first-chinaman

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containsAccountOfEventtrove-cooktown/mcivor-river

ex:spearing-second-chinaman

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containsBareStatementOfFacttrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

null

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containsDailyEventsFromTotrove-cooktown/mcivor-river

1881-01-01 to 1881-10-01

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containsNotOneWordOftrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:complaint

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datesProvetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

ex:death-timing

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datesProvetrove-cooktown/beche-de-mer

death occurred at least 5 days before suspicion reached Cooktown

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