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Source And Disambiguation Strategy

Identity Target

This project covers Hood College in Frederick, Maryland only.

The strongest positive disambiguation signals are:

  • hood.edu
  • hoodathletics.com
  • article text explicitly naming Hood College
  • article text explicitly naming Frederick, Md. or Frederick, Maryland
  • article text referencing 401 Rosemont Ave.
  • article text referencing known Hood context such as the Blazers, campus buildings, academic programs, or Hood College offices

Early Source Tiers

Tier 1: official institutional sources

  • https://www.hood.edu/news
  • https://www.hood.edu/discover/stories
  • https://www.hood.edu/campus-events
  • official Hood pages for named campus programs, talks, theatre, and academic initiatives when they publish person-rich updates

Tier 2: official athletics sources

  • https://hoodathletics.com/news
  • team pages and recaps that identify student-athletes, coaches, and athletics staff

Tier 3: selective local media

This tier is now appropriate because the official-source pipeline is in place. Prefer direct site feeds or site-search feeds over broad scraping.

Current local-media candidates:

  • Frederick News-Post search results for hood college
  • WFMD
  • WFRE
  • Key 103 / WAFY

Tier 4: social and community discussion

Use only sources that expose stable public item URLs.

Current active social candidate:

  • Reddit search feeds for Hood College and Hood Blazers queries

Current deferred social candidates:

  • Facebook public pages
  • Instagram public profiles

These Meta surfaces should remain deferred until we have a platform-specific adapter or API-backed access path that yields stable post URLs and reliable post text.

Google News is useful for monitoring discovery gaps, but it should not become a primary ingestion source until publisher URLs can be resolved reliably from Google News wrapper links.

Negative Disambiguation Signals

Reject or down-rank items when the page refers to:

  • another institution with Hood in the name
  • non-college organizations, businesses, or places named Hood
  • articles lacking any Frederick or Hood College campus context
  • result pages, tag pages, schedule pages, or roster indexes with no article narrative

Article Inclusion Rules

An article is eligible when it satisfies at least one strong Hood-specific signal and does not trigger a negative disambiguation rule.

Preferred article types:

  • institutional news releases
  • campus event announcements or recaps
  • athletics recaps and athlete recognition stories
  • academic program spotlights
  • partnership announcements
  • faculty expert features
  • student achievement stories

Person Categories To Capture

  • student
  • student-athlete
  • faculty
  • staff
  • administrator
  • alumnus or alumna
  • board member
  • guest speaker
  • visitor
  • community partner
  • donor
  • coach
  • recruiter or admissions contact

Per-Person Capture Rules

For each person mention, record:

  • full displayed name
  • role category
  • article-specific role text
  • department, office, team, program, class year, major, or hometown when present
  • source article URL
  • publication date
  • short note describing how the person appears in the article

Storytelling Rule

Daily discovery writing should read like a short factual story, not a bullet dump. It should connect people through the events, programs, games, recognitions, and partnerships that brought them into the day’s coverage.

Connection Rule

Weekly connection discovery should be evidence-led. Favor:

  • co-appearance in the same article
  • shared department or office
  • shared athletic team
  • shared academic program
  • shared event participation
  • direct quote or stated relationship

Avoid speculative connections based only on name proximity.