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Record why a leading The stays no partner for a title that may be a given name (#913) - #1056

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A leading The before a title that may be a given name (rules/H9, the title phrase) joins the word into the given name: The Marquis de Sade reads given 'The Marquis', family 'de Sade', where 1.4.0 read title 'The Marquis'. decisions/H9 had accepted this for mahdi, bard and buddha as epithets, and #999 kept the article from partnering any word but hon. This PR records the shape for every such word and keeps it. It changes no parser behavior.

Measured (tree a1b3e18, 2026-11-03)

  • Shape grid: all 37 titles_ambiguous words in five article shapes (The X John Smith, The X Smith, Smith, The X John, John Smith, the X, The X Smith, John) under all three orders. 35 lose the title; royal and wing keep it through decision 10's object of the. The X of Bute John Smith keeps it for all 37.
  • Wheels: in The X John Smith, 1.4.0 read the title for 31 of the 37 and 2.8.1 for 8.
  • Corpora: the the <word> pair occurs 5 times in the 13 local corpora (8,700,048 entries). Four already read a title through of or a style before the article. The fifth, ORCID's Satan The Princess Of Darkness Cock, is no person's name. The committed corpora hold 4 hits: the two accepted epithets and the Queen's Bench.
  • Treating the article as a partner would therefore fix no real name, and it would reverse three recorded costs and Should Maj read as a given name in Maj Sjöwall, as Prince does, when FEC writes the rank trailing (SMITH, JOHN B. MAJ.)? #999's narrowing.

Changes

  • rules/H9: the epithet Accepted bullet now covers every title that may be a given name, with new examples (The Marquis de Sade, The Saint Thomas More, The Marquis of Tavistock).
  • decisions/H9: a Standing bullet, plus a Log entry with the measurements and a recompute line.
  • tests/v2/rules_budget.json: re-recorded, because H9's Accepted clause grew by 29 words. The widened bullet reads no new signal: the article and of are neighbor connectives the rule's Signal: line already names.

The design-docs review corrected the first draft's wheel lists and its reading of the corpus lines. The fix is in this commit.

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…iven name (#913)

rules/H9's epithet Accepted bullet now names every word in
titles_ambiguous (`The Marquis de Sade` -> given 'The Marquis'), with
`of` or a style keeping the title; decisions/H9 gains a Standing bullet
and a dated Log entry with the shape grid, the 1.4.0 and 2.8.1 wheel
readings and the corpus bigram count (5 local lines in 8,700,048, none
a person's name the partner would fix). Budget re-recorded: H9's
Accepted clause grew by the widened bullet, reading no new signal.

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