Verifying Textbook Facts
Using LLMs to find errors is fairly hallucination-proof. If they mess up, it’s just wasted effort. If they don’t, they’ve uncovered a major problem! Varun fact-checked Themes in Indian History, the official NCERT Class 12 textbook. Page-by-page, he asked Gemini to: Extract each claim. E.g. “Clay was locally available to the Harappans” on page 12. Search online for the claim. E.g. ASI site description and by Encyclopedia Britannica. Fact-check each claim. E.g. “Clay was locally available to the Harappans” is confirmed by both sources. Here is his analysis and verifier code. ...