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Automated, auditable dating of the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries with language models and astronomical tools

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-27 · astronomy, babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, language-models, ai-agents
On a 120-tablet decisive-evidence benchmark, the Babylonian Diaries automated dating system's top-ranked candidate year includes the published date in 96% of cases and is a single correct year in 84 of 120

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-27 · astronomy, babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, chronology, benchmark
The Babylonian Diaries dating system commits to a single year in only 10 of 417 dated records (all 10 correct), and on 56 undated ADART IV entries with decisive evidence it narrows rather than dates, to a median of 102 of 701 candidate years

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-27 · astronomy, babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, chronology, benchmark
Greenhalgh's 2008 book names Liang Zhongtang as a key actor six years before the two 2014 books Whyte, Wang & Cai cite as his 'prior research' contribution existed

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, citation-genealogy
Greenhalgh's 2003 naming of Liang Zhongtang predates both Liang's own 2009 essay and the 2014 books Whyte, Wang & Cai actually cite — by six years and more than a decade

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-12 · china, population-policy, one-child-policy, historiography, citation-genealogy
Werbos's DOCSUB episode entered the public record 7–12 years after RHW's 1986 Nature paper, foreclosing a causal reading

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, rumelhart, backpropagation, citation-history, docsub
SRI's neural-net group retooled toward symbolic AI around 1965–66, years before Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons was published in 1969 — the social closure predates the formal refutation

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, perceptrons