Stop Choosing Tools. Start Building Them.
Part of the reason those systems created these kinds of errors was that they were not created for historical research. However, looking at these errors from a historian’s lens allowed me to create a better solution for history. Additionally, I noticed that those systems had a tendency to repress those entities which appear only rarely in the corpus. Sometimes, the most valuable entities, the obscure people and the once-mentioned places, are the very heart of where historical discovery is found. Fixing the systemic problems, and surfacing these obscure entities, were my goals in creating my own solution.