hirthickraj2015/graphwiz-ireland

fix: occupation queries no longer return non-matching people (no era fallback)

feat: comprehensive occupation coverage (50 categories, verified Wikidata QIDs)

fix: occupation queries (e.g. 'teachers in the 19th century') return the right people

fix: 'people from <place>' = born/originating there, not died there

ui: keep content crisp during search (fix blurry first-search background)

ui: top-right Home button as a single custom JS element (fixes weird placement)

ui: move Home button to top-right (left of the menu)

fix: Home button position (use button width, dedupe, don't block input)

ui: Home button beside the chat input for easy navigation back

ui: hamburger icon for collapsed sidebar + always visible

fix: surname-count cites real DIB + VRTI links, not the home page

feat: VRTI-grounded surname counts + no-hallucination guard; default light mode

feat: places get a VRTI link, Wikipedia link, and a map marker

fix: place queries now use VRTI, not Wikipedia-only

fix: portraits not loading — render client-side <img> instead of st.image

fix: disable thinking-overlay entirely — the definitive loads-forever fix

fix: ROOT CAUSE — remove stuck thinking-overlay that hid the answer

diag: elapsed-time logging for Groq + VRTI; tame Groq retry stacking

perf: fix root-cause hang — tighten VRTI Virtuoso timeouts

fix: read session_state in main thread, not worker

fix: hard wall-clock timeout on queries + unbuffered logs

fix: prevent endless spinner — 45s Groq timeout + surface query errors

fix: survive Wikimedia rate-limiting on shared Space IPs

fix: portraits + response time — encode Commons URLs, VRTI circuit breaker, Wikidata fallback

fix: make portrait images visible — URL normalisation + Wikidata P18 fallback

perf: replace qwen-qwq-32b with llama-3.3-70b and parallelize Wikidata fetches

ux: replace full-screen dots overlay with chat-style overlay on first search

ux: comprehensive UI overhaul — themes, search animation, sidebar, welcome transition

ux: collapse sidebar by default on app load

fix: remove version check that timed out on every Streamlit rerun

fix: use correct data-testid 'stExpandSidebarButton' for collapsed sidebar icon

fix: aggressively hide sidebar arrow SVG and show hamburger icon when collapsed

ux: redesign welcome screen with category groups and example questions

ux: show 'Menu' label below hamburger icon when sidebar is collapsed

ux: replace sidebar arrow with hamburger icon (☰)

fix: expand VRTI acronym in welcome text

fix: simplify welcome text — remove 'Dictionary of Irish Biography' reference

ux: redesign sidebar with plain-English labels for non-technical users

feat: add plain-English tooltips to all sidebar settings

fix: use HTML img tags for portraits so browser fetches images directly

fix: load portrait images client-side to bypass server-side Wikimedia blocking

fix: download and cache portrait images server-side for production

updated ui

fix: academic synthesis voice + strip URLs from LLM context

fix: name disambiguation + strict source-grounding synthesis

fix: portrait renders in response via st.image() with HTTPS + side-by-side columns layout

feat: portraits, forename/surname display, county/province hierarchy from VRTI-KG

fix: century text parsing, 429 backoff, occupation-only VRTI fallback

test: standalone quality test script (no streamlit/huggingface_hub deps)

rag: fix apostrophe names, notability ordering, robust JSON parse, richer text