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Contextual AI Geocoding for Evidence Research — a five-stage pipeline running nine parallel geocoding backends to resolve ambiguous place references in slavery, displacement, and war scholarship.

Nominatim Pleiades OpenHistoricalMap Python NLP
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Contextual AI Geocoding for Evidence Research

A five-stage pipeline running nine parallel geocoding backends with seven-component scoring, six structured failure modes, and a Spatial Coherence Score.

Five-Stage Pipeline

From raw evidence text to a resolved, scored geometry.

  1. Extraction — Identifying place-names amidst noisy evidence streams using contextual NLP.
  2. Querying — Nine services hit simultaneously: Nominatim, Pleiades, WHG, OHM, Geonames, and more.
  3. Aggregation — Candidate geometries pooled and deduplicated with a seven-component scoring model.
  4. Disambiguation — Narrative context prunes the result tree to the most spatially coherent candidate.
  5. Classification — Six structured failure modes distinguish solvable ambiguity from genuine evidential gaps.

Pipeline in Action

Topodex geocoding pipeline being deployed against live evidence corpora.

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