Diana Kennedy is aged 95 and a new film about her is available online as of May 2020.
Mostly true True in substance, wrong in a detail.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Two parts: (a) Diana Kennedy's age in May 2020, and (b) a new film about her that could be watched online at that time. True if her documented birth date makes her 95 on 2020-05-23 and a recently released film about her (for example, a documentary) was available online then. Mostly true if the film part holds and she was alive, but her age was off by one or two years (she was 96 or 97 rather than 95). Mixed if only one part holds, or if the age is off by more than two years. Mostly false if the film existed but was not new or not available online, and the age was also wrong. False if no such film existed, or if she was not alive in May 2020.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (4)
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E1 Food icon Diana Kennedy will die when she damn pleases. What else her new doc reveals Los Angeles Times · 21 May 2020
“At the time of filming, Kennedy was 96. She told me herself, when I visited her ranch in Mexico in 2014, she didn’t contemplate living for more than 10 years. Today she is 97.”
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E2 Food icon Diana Kennedy will die when she damn pleases. What else her new doc reveals Los Angeles Times · 21 May 2020
“Playing: In virtual cinemas, including Laemmle, Cinepolis, Studio Grill and more at dianakennedymovie.com”
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E3 HamptonsFilm presents NOW SHOWING: Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy - Guild Hall Guild Hall · 22 May 2020
“Until we can safely meet again, we’re delighted to announce that our weekly model will continue, moving from our recent screenings at Guild Hall onto your personal screens in the privacy of your own home.”
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E4 How a brilliant, brutal, devastatingly funny woman changed the way millions of people cooked The Irish Times · 2 August 2022
“I thought of that moment when friends confirmed that she had died on Sunday, July 24th, at her home in Michoacán, in Mexico.”
Reasoning
The Los Angeles Times on 2020-05-21 described "Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy" as her new documentary and said it was playing in virtual cinemas through dianakennedymovie.com (E2). A Guild Hall listing from 2020-05-22 also shows it screening in people's homes (E3), so the film part of the claim holds. The same Los Angeles Times article says "Today she is 97" (E1), not 95, so the age is two years off. She was alive at the time, since she died in July 2022 (E4), which fits "mostly true" under the criteria.
Cite this claim
Tyler Cowen, “Diana Kennedy is aged 95 and a new film about her is available online as of May 2020.” (said 23 May 2020). Verdict: mostly true. Reliability API, claim c_139e701d6006, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_139e701d6006
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