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How a page from 1889 becomes a clue.
A recorded run of the pipeline on one real page: The Evening World, New York, November 29, 1889, the day it announced the contest to guess Nellie Bly's time.
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Fetch
A worker downloads the page scan and its machine-read text (OCR) from the Library of Congress, politely, once.
Find the layout · Muse Spark
Muse Spark looks at the whole page and boxes every story, ad, headline and picture.
Trace each piece · SAM 3.1
Meta's Segment Anything Model takes those boxes and traces each piece precisely, with a confidence score.
Repair the text · Muse Spark
Only where the OCR is badly garbled, Muse Spark reads the clipping image and transcribes what's printed.
Tag the stories
Each clipping is labeled: person, event, business, ad. Each gets a score for how much of a human story it holds.
Check every claim · the Editor
Before anything reaches a player, an independent model check compares each clue and explanation to the scan. Anything it can't confirm is rejected.