A public engineering record, ongoing · since 14 July 2026
Building the Ethiopia knowledge base
Between 14 July and 12 August 2026 a two-person team, one giving the agents their orders and a native Amharic speaker who is also a data scientist, working with a team of AI agents, began the process of building a machine-readable knowledge base about Ethiopia from public sources and extracting knowledge graphs from it. The work is ongoing. This site documents its progress as it happens: where the data came from, how the graphs were built, what went wrong and what was learned, with the Amharic problems given the prominence they earned.
1,153
Wikipedia captures, hashed and revision-stamped
1,250
World Bank documents acquired with full provenance
15 of 15
extraction runs produced a different graph. Three documents, five runs each. In the project's terms each run is a lens, and lenses are expected to differ; identical ones would mean something was broken
On 11 August 2026 the operator ruled the Ethiopia corpus "nowhere near worked", pulled the Ethiopia programme out of the architecture, and made the architecture generic so the next pass could start from a cleaner base. This site exists because the record of why is worth more than the first corpus was, and because the work goes on.
user-beadwork/plans/PLAN_lens-graph-similarity_2026-08-11.md · v1 to v3.2 · retrieved 2026-08-21
The record, in six chapters
Five source lanes, fifty audited families, and the table of hosts that blocked, timed out, or lied about their encoding.
Immutable captures, monotone ingestion, the trusted execution broker, and why Obsidian was demoted.
03 Three generations of graphs
Deterministic claims, OO-LD hypergraphs, the lens-graph architecture: what each produced and why each was replaced.
04 The fifteen Amharic problems
The centrepiece. Concrete failures specific to a low-resource language with its own script, in the order a builder meets them.
14 July to 11 August, dated from tickets and commits, with an honest state column for everything still open.
Fifteen agent seats by role and runtime, what each produced, and what they recorded against themselves.
ethiopia-program/corpora/ethiopia/ · u--2x9 · eth-5q7 · retrieved 2026-08-21
commit 3fdb48ab · the convergence artifact, deleted with the corpus, survives only in git history
How to read this site
This is a working record of a project in progress, not a post-mortem. Every figure on these pages carries a repository path, ticket id or commit in an evidence strip like the two above, so it can be re-verified against the archive. Failures are content here: blocked sources, rejected runs and measurements that came back zero are listed with the same care as successes, because they are what the next pass is built on. People appear by role only. Ethiopic text renders from your device's system fonts and is marked reviewed or awaiting review. Nothing on this site is triumphant and nothing apologizes; it is a lab notebook, published while the work continues, and each page carries the date it was last updated.
The first pass was one stage of a longer project: a news site for Ethiopia and its diaspora in English and Amharic, and, as its prerequisite, better translation and transcription for low-resource languages. The two are one project because every translation the bilingual editors correct becomes training data. What the project is for sets out those goals.
A seventh chapter, Plans, records what is intended before it is done, with dates. Two further pages sit outside the chapters: the evidence map, which lists every repository, document and ticket store the record draws on, and agent access, the site's notes for the AI assistants that read it.
Ask your AI about this page
Paste this page's link into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask your question in your own words. Every page here publishes a machine-readable copy, so your assistant can read the record directly:
https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/
Every page here has a markdown twin; this page's is https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/index.md (also served with .txt appended). The whole site is mapped in one small file at https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/site_guide.txt, https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/llms.txt describes how the record is organized, and https://ethiopia-build.stoagen.com/agents/ carries the site's notes for assistants.
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