People/Person and context


I was reading Anabasis by Xenonphon and got to wondering where are all these places the ten thousand went to?
Reading each line and recording each place name into a spreadsheet and then doing a look-up in wikis or googles
seemed a little too last century minus one, so I wondered some more: are there software bits that would help?
Which led me to NLP (natural language processing) and thus Spacy, one such.
spacy.io software runs in python, and you can feed in a blob of text, and it will parse out names, proper nouns, places, sentences and other stuff.
Perfect I thought, but Spacy.io made a bit of mess of classifying people and places. Sometimes, reading the context, you might want to move a word to a People or a Places or a Proper Nouns list for later refinement. So I wrote some editing pages (not shown) to help me classify a word into whether it be a place or person or people name.
Then, I thought, I must share this will the worldww.
Here you go.

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People/Person from book THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS VOL 1

Person/Group
idnamegenderspecies
2495Aëroposmalehuman


For each personal name, we print line(s) containing that item to show the context of the usage.

Context
idText

Each translator of Greek and other old texts uses newer or older forms of names for person and place names, some use Latinized or Anglicized forms of Greek. Some prefer Sparta, others use Lacedaemonia and some mix both.
There is a need for a DB to map all variants of an ancient place name onto all other variants.
Another day, perhaps.