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Design Historical Records RAG

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Problem

Scenario

You're building a system where a language model needs to answer questions grounded in historical records rather than only its pretraining. The collection includes OCR'd census pages, immigration manifests, city directories, and family tree notes, so retrieval quality and grounded generation both matter.

Question

How would you design a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflow for historical records search?

What this tests

  • Hybrid retrieval for noisy historical text
  • Vector search and metadata-aware filtering
  • Grounded answer generation with citations
  • Evaluation of retrieval quality and hallucination risk