Bill Gates recently sat down for a conversation with author Jared Diamond.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2019-05-29. True: a dated record (for example a GatesNotes post or video, or media coverage) shows that Bill Gates had a conversation or interview with Jared Diamond in the weeks or months before 2019-05-29. Mostly true: the conversation happened, but some time earlier than 'recently' suggests, or in a slightly different format (for example remotely). Mostly false: they met, but well before 2019 rather than recently. False: the records show no such conversation took place.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 I loved Jared Diamond's discipline-bending book | Bill Gates GatesNotes (Bill Gates) · 20 May 2019 Own record
“I had a great time sitting down with him in my office recently and asking him about his unusual perspective on human history.”
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E2 Jared Diamond: The Thought Leader Interview strategy+business (originally published by Booz & Company) · 1 July 2001
“Linda arranged for me to meet Bill Gates, and I talked with him for a couple of hours.”
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E3 Jared Diamond: The Thought Leader Interview strategy+business (originally published by Booz & Company) · 1 July 2001
“Linda arranged for me to meet Bill Gates, and I talked with him for a couple of hours.”
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E4 I loved Jared Diamond's discipline-bending book | Bill Gates GatesNotes (Bill Gates) · 20 May 2019 Own record
“I had a great time sitting down with him in my office recently and asking him about his unusual perspective on human history.”
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E5 Bill Gates picks his 5 top summer reads for 2019, with no shortage of heavy topics GeekWire · 20 May 2019
“Gates sat down with Diamond to discuss his latest, Upheaval, which examines how societies react in moments of crisis.”
Reasoning
Gates's GatesNotes review, dated 2019-05-20, says he recently sat down with Jared Diamond in his office and asked about his view of human history (E1, E4). GeekWire's report the same day also says Gates sat down with Diamond to discuss his latest book, Upheaval (E5). Neither source gives an exact date for the conversation. The resolution criteria name a dated GatesNotes post or media coverage as the kind of record that settles this, and both exist here. The 2001 interview (E2, E3) describes an earlier meeting and does not change the finding about the recent conversation.
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Bill Gates, “Bill Gates recently sat down for a conversation with author Jared Diamond.” (said 29 May 2019). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_7283d29e46ea, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_7283d29e46ea
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