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Explore the names found in 21,264,134 local archive rows from Eigen Times and Eigen Hacks. A name candidate, a confirmed identity, and a verified article mention are different records.

A Wikipedia and Wikidata match identifies who a candidate value names. It does not confirm that every associated article refers to that identity, or establish a professional relationship. Known-name candidates have separate date and context checks; the wider NYT discovery index is uncurated article evidence.

351 of 351 known-name candidate records. Identity confirmation and article qualification are separate checks.

Wikidata-confirmed identity / candidate article mentions

Dave Packard

Wikipedia: David Packard ↗ · Q380484 ↗

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Wikipedia and Wikidata confirm the matched identity, not every article mention. Activity-date and context checks remove known implausible matches. Passing those checks does not verify that an article refers to this person.

Coverage through time

YearPlausible mentionsQuarantined
202520
202420
202310
202210
202110
201920
201810
201610
201510
201310
201210
200910
200810
200710
200520
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200120
200010

Source references

Selected references from articles that passed the mention checks. Mentions may be incidental.

What was scanned

21,264,134 stored rows across the two corpora. The distinct-ID counts below sum to 20,660,050; this sum is not deduplicated across corpora. Repeated rows and shared reporting are not additional people or independent evidence.

Eigenhacks / Hacker News

4,762,682 stored rows · 4,171,781 distinct article IDs · 238 local partition files.

Publication coverage: 2006-10-09 to 2026-09-05. Scan recorded 2026-10-01; later live editions can contain newer articles.

SourceStored rowsDistinct article IDsPartitions
hackernews4,762,6824,171,781238

370 dictionary names were scanned. 55,200 articles contained raw matches; 52,467 had at least one plausible, still-unreviewed person mention.

Mention qualification results
Check resultPerson/article pairsDistinct articles
ambiguous name without context3,2973,268
before documented activity77
plausible unreviewed candidate62,00952,467

One article can contain several names and appear in more than one check category. These are mention checks, not Wikipedia identity confirmations.

Eigen Times local news archive

16,501,452 stored rows · 16,488,269 distinct article IDs · 2,983 local partition files.

Publication coverage: 1851-09-18 to 2026-09-05. Scan recorded 2026-10-01; later live editions can contain newer articles.

SourceStored rowsDistinct article IDsPartitions
guardian954,841954,840333
nyt15,407,54115,395,4832,098
wiki-current-events117,898116,774297
wikinews21,17221,172255

370 dictionary names were scanned. 39,289 articles contained raw matches; 24,322 had at least one plausible, still-unreviewed person mention.

Mention qualification results
Check resultPerson/article pairsDistinct articles
ambiguous name without context2,1822,178
before documented activity568566
missing dated identity evidence16,89415,243
plausible unreviewed candidate28,27724,322

One article can contain several names and appear in more than one check category. These are mention checks, not Wikipedia identity confirmations.

Every locally available partition was scanned. The local NYT files omit 1978-09 and 1978-10; checks of the official NYT Archive API on 2026-10-01 returned HTTP 200 with zero articles for those months. Name extraction is not exhaustive. The wider keyword index uses a name-shape and technology-context heuristic; original keyword categories were not retained upstream. Candidate mentions never automatically become factual relationships.