At the April 28, 2001 meeting, doors will open at 7 a.m., the movie will begin at 8:30 and the meeting will start at 9:30.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
Promise about the schedule of the 28 April 2001 annual meeting. True: dated accounts of the 28 April 2001 meeting (Berkshire materials, press reports, attendee accounts) show doors opened at 7 a.m., the movie started at 8:30 and the meeting began at 9:30, give or take a few minutes. Mostly true: the meeting took place that day and one time was off by a small amount (about 15 minutes or less). Mixed: one of the three times differed substantially while the other two held. Mostly false: two or more of the times differed substantially, or the meeting was moved to a later date. False: the meeting was not held on 28 April 2001, or a dated account shows a clearly different schedule for all three items.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2001 Transcript good-investing.net
“Then we’ll have a break, and then we’ll start again around 12:30 or thereabouts and go until 3:30.”
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E2 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2001 Transcript good-investing.net
“Then we’ll have a break, and then we’ll start again around 12:30 or thereabouts and go until 3:30.”
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E3 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2001 Transcript good-investing.net
“Of that number, 1,116,384 Class A shares and 4,507,896 Class B shares are represented at this meeting by proxies return through Thursday evening, April 26th.”
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E4 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001067983... (Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Form 10-Q, quarter ended June 30, 2001) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (filed by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.) Own record
“held April 28, 2001, Berkshire's shareholders reelected”
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E5 Berkshire Hathaway | The Berkshire Hathaway Wiki buffett.datax.app (third-party wiki)
“and I welcome you to this 2001 annual meeting of shareholders.”
Reasoning
Berkshire's 10-Q (E6) shows that the annual meeting took place on April 28, 2001, and the transcript excerpts (E4, E7) show the meeting was convened. None of the evidence gives the time the doors opened, the movie started or the meeting began. The only times quoted (E1, E3) are for the afternoon session after the break, 12:30 to 3:30. Without accounts of the three scheduled times, the claim cannot be resolved under the criteria.
Cite this claim
Warren Buffett, “At the April 28, 2001 meeting, doors will open at 7 a.m., the movie will begin at 8:30 and the meeting will start at 9:30.” (said 28 February 2001). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_e19f5f55847d, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_e19f5f55847d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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