Claims extracted
17
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
24%
4 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
withheld
no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
96/100
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
The first concert I ever went to was at the San Rafael Civic Center, and the performer was Dolly Parton.
asserted
performer → go → Center
This was the Bay Area, 1977, and the notion that Dolly Parton might have a wide, national appeal—let alone a San Francisco Bay Area appeal—was years away.
uncertain
Parton → let → appeal
But my friend Annie and I were two 16-year-old girls who weren’t following the herd.
asserted
who → follow → herd
When it came to taste, we were on our own.
asserted
we → come → own
That same year, we’d gone to see professional wrestling at the Cow Palace.
asserted
we → go → Palace
We were weirdos, and we knew what we liked.
asserted
we → know → what
Berkeley had many cults, but the Dolly Parton cult was a two-girl operation.
asserted
cult → have → cults
This was before the movie 9 to 5 gave Dolly Parton some national recognition.
asserted
movie → give → recognition
In those days, the South and the rest of America were eager to ignore each other’s existence.
asserted
South → ignore → existence
There was a weekly variety show called Hee Haw, which was meant as a deep-South version of Laugh-In, except that Laugh-In was cool—it had go-go dancers and nightclub comics—and Hee Haw was beyond square.
asserted
Haw → be → dancers
But some of the best music in the country was performed on that show every week: Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash and Charlie Pride and sometimes a young Dolly Parton.
asserted
some → perform → show
The thing about Dolly—the reason Annie and I loved her so much, and from the very beginning—was that that woman could sing.
uncertain
woman → love → beginning
She could really, really sing.
uncertain
She → sing → ?
If you don’t know what we fell in love with, stop everything and listen to her recording of Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8).
asserted
we → know → Blues
Any questions you might have about how she got so far in her life will be answered.
uncertain
she → have → life
At the root of that massive career that came to stand for so many things was a great voice and a childhood drenched in one of the great American art forms: bluegrass music.
asserted
voice → come → forms
Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in a Tennessee holler, the fourth of 12 children born to an illiterate sharecropper turned subsistence farmer, in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River, a way of life so remote from the modern American one that it seems like something from a children’s book.
asserted
it → bear → book
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