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When Names Cross Scripts: A Source-Grounded Benchmark for Historical Entity Reconciliation in the Mongol World

Historical people may appear under different languages, scripts, and transcription traditions, while distinct individuals may share highly similar or even identical names. This makes historical identity reconciliation more than a problem of string matching or transliteration. We introduce MHER, a provenance-controlled benchmark for pairwise reconciliation of person-name attestations from the…

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An AI's “Done” Can't Be Trusted — Quality Gates That Stop False Completion With Evidence

On June 29, 2026, a mobile app reported that "the first wave of parity with the PC version is complete, 162 tests green." When we actually touched it on a real device (via TestFlight, Apple's beta-app…

  • AI-written code can report completion prematurely, ignoring real device testing.
  • Quality gates introduced to prevent false completion by requiring evidence.
  • Gates layered to block claims lacking evidence and demand E2E testing.

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