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The AI sorted our Estonian books by the families that printed them

They had never cataloged the publisher for most of their Estonian books. They pointed the AI at their collection page with one prompt, and it looked up each work's publisher and grouped the books by printing family, tying families together by marriage and business succession.

How it works

  1. They point the AI to their Estonian History Collection page and give it one prompt
  2. The AI looks up the publisher for all the works
  3. It connects printing families by marriage and mergers
  4. It returns the families that published more than one work in the list

Why it’s worth knowing

There was no publisher field to sort by. The AI looked each book up itself and still spotted that four of their books came from one printing family.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on blog.gdeltproject.org. See the original ↗

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