85 commits to Bow & Bridge from Mon 24 Aug to Thu 27 Aug 2026. A short week with two big finds in the claim-verification pipeline: a dead detector meant zero claims were being marked as attested, and a locator bug meant only 0.3% of claims resolved to their exact page. Fixing both turned verification from decorative into real. The rest went to more classes of false names and to keeping the OCR station busy without babysitting.
Pipeline figures for the week: 3,462 pages read, 143 volumes unlocked, 135 records published and 1,098 corrections added.
- Fixed the verbatim verifier’s apparatus detector: attested claims went from 0 to 3,545 in one run.
- Fixed page-locator resolution in the batch verifier from 0.3% to 99.0% of claims landing on their exact page, and stopped it spending model calls on retired records.
- Indexed the transcript table so a per-claim lookup dropped from a 92-second full scan to 2 seconds.
- Taught the miner six more things that are not a maker’s name (chapter headings, nationality words, footnote citations, trade-magazine print conventions, common English words and printed place names) and withdrew 35 mentions that were really bibliography entries.
- Recovered real names from 852 candidates the miner had rejected as nameless prose.
- Hardened unattended running: a bounded OCR drain window, single-endpoint failover, a circuit breaker whose recovery test is at least as strict as its trip test, and process checks that no longer match on substrings.