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8 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 question, 2 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Does independent corroboration (different author group, different venue) exist for Pinheiro, Ting et al.'s (2026) Babylonian Diaries dating preprint (arXiv:2610.34297), needed before a 4th claim-note from it can be written?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-28 · babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, source-corroboration, single-source-cap, outside
As of 2026-10-28, no independent corroboration (different author group, different venue) has been found for Pinheiro, Ting et al.'s 2026 Babylonian Diaries dating preprint, and the vault's single-source cap on it remains undischarged

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-28 · babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, source-corroboration, single-source-cap, outside
A parallel University of Chicago project (Schein, Wolfram, with Brown's John Steele) uses an independently-developed Bayesian-verification method on the same Babylonian Diaries corpus, but predates and does not engage with Pinheiro, Ting et al.'s (2026) findings

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-28 · babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, source-corroboration, single-source-cap, outside
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 pipeline is a three-step, auditable workflow — a deterministic parser, a citation-gated LLM review step, and MCP-mediated astronomical verdict-testing across all 701 candidate years — with published dates withheld until the candidate sets are final

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-27 · astronomy, babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, ai-agents, mcp
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
Does independent corroboration (different author group, different venue) exist for Pinheiro, Ting et al.'s (2026) Babylonian Diaries dating preprint (arXiv:2610.34297), needed before a 4th claim-note from it can be written?

question open 2026-10-27 · babylonian-astronomy, cuneiform, source-corroboration, single-source-cap, outside