Bill Gates has met Queen Elizabeth II.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
Judged as of 2022-09-08. True: credible evidence (royal court circular, official photos, news reports, honours records) shows that Gates met Queen Elizabeth II in person at least once, e.g. at an investiture, audience, reception or event. Mostly true: a meeting is documented, but some secondary detail (occasion, date) differs from how it is described. Mixed/mostly false: the evidence only shows that he was at the same event as the Queen or received an honour in her name without meeting her in person. False: evidence shows he never met her (e.g. an honour conferred in her absence and no other meeting on record).
Set before the research began.
Evidence (2)
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E1 Bill Gates Meets The Queen CBS News · 2 March 2005
“As is traditional, Gates will kneel at Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth II taps him on the shoulder with a sword, officially conferring the honor.”
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E2 Queen Elizabeth welcomes billionaires and tech entrepreneurs to Windsor Castle | BreakingNews BreakingNews.ie · 19 October 2021
“Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was among the guests invited to the Queen’s Berkshire home after the day-long conference in London”
Reasoning
E1 describes a planned 2005 knighthood ceremony in the future tense, and E2 says only that Gates was among the guests invited to the Queen's home in 2021. Neither item confirms that an in-person meeting with Queen Elizabeth II took place.
Cite this claim
Bill Gates, “Bill Gates has met Queen Elizabeth II.” (said 8 September 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_980f1d78dd8d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_980f1d78dd8d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
Reply to this claim
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