The Lazarus Process™
How We Extract 2,011% More Facts Than Standard LLMs
Test Artifact: "Around Town" Column — Your Host Las Vegas Magazine, August 1953
Artifact ID: YHM-1953-08-AROUNDTOWN-001 • Collection: Jack Cortez Estate / Tropicana Collection
The Problem with Standard LLM Extraction
Large Language Models trained on scraped web data suffer from a fatal flaw: they inherit and propagate errors from their training sources. When asked to extract facts from historical documents, they produce shallow, unverified outputs that repeat mistakes as truth. They cannot cross-reference against authoritative sources, detect factual errors, or build knowledge graph connections. Worse, they confidently present incorrect information with no provenance trail.
The Lazarus Process solves this. Our 10-layer extraction methodology doesn't just pull more facts — it corrects the historical record, builds verified entity relationships, and delivers legally defensible ground truth that no competitor can replicate.
The Test
We submitted this single magazine page to one of the top 3 LLMs in the world under a standard data extraction request.
Standard LLM Extraction
Generalized Facts
Lazarus Process v7.0
Verified, Layered Facts
IMPROVEMENT OVER BASELINE EXTRACTION
Original projection: 47 facts per artifact
Pre-Lazarus Facts
Enrichment Facts Added
Total Post-Lazarus Facts
This is the highest fact-count artifact processed to date.
Section 1: Critical Corrections
The Lazarus Process identified factual errors in the original article that have propagated across all major LLMs due to reliance on copied and synthetic data. These corrections represent new ground truth unavailable from any other source.
1.1 Gordon Dean AEC Position
ORIGINAL:
"fourth Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission"
CORRECTED:
Gordon Dean was the SECOND Chairman of the AEC, serving July 1950 to June 1953
SOURCE: Wikipedia, Grokipedia — cross-verified
1.2 Cyrus Noble Mining Claim Date
ORIGINAL:
"In 1873, the mining claim was traded for a bottle of Cyrus Noble Whiskey"
CORRECTED:
The trade occurred in 1901, not 1873. Prospector John Coleman traded his claim in Searchlight, Nevada.
SOURCE: Cyrus Noble official history, SF Chronicle, Western Mining History
1.3 Cyrus Noble Mine Value
ORIGINAL:
"valued at more than a half million dollars"
CORRECTED:
The mine yielded over $250,000 in gold, not half million.
1.4 Nevada Right-to-Work Law
ORIGINAL:
"Senate Bill 129, enacted March 14, 1953"
CORRECTED:
It was SB79, signed by Gov. Charlie Russell on March 14, 1951, ratified by voters in 1952 (50.6% to 49.4%), effective 1953.
Section 2: Major Entity Enrichments
The Lazarus Process enriches each entity mentioned in the source document with verified biographical, historical, and contextual data unavailable from surface-level extraction.
2.1 Gordon Evans Dean (AEC Chairman)
- • Born December 28, 1905, Seattle, Washington (father was Baptist minister)
- • Died August 15, 1958 in Northeast Airlines Flight 258 crash at Nantucket Memorial Airport
- • Crash killed 20 of 31 passengers in fog (visibility 1/8 mile)
- • "Report on the Atom" published 1953 by Alfred A. Knopf, 321 pages; 2nd edition 1957
HUMAN LAYER:
When Dean died, among his personal effects was an envelope with nine life lessons scribbled on the back
2.2 Christine Jorgensen / Hotel Sahara Dispute
- • Born May 30, 1926 as George Jorgensen Jr. in New York City
- • Drafted into Army as clerical worker, honorably discharged 1946; worked as newsreel editor at Pathé-RKO
- • Surgery performed by Dr. Christian Hamburger in Denmark
- • NY Daily News headline Dec 1, 1952: 'EX-G.I. BECOMES BLONDE BOMBSHELL'
IDENTITY OF 'TWO OTHER ACTS':
Singer Marguerite Piazza and dancer Gene Nelson protested co-billing. Bill Miller (Sahara entertainment director) sent the 'Dear Sir' letter; Milton Prell (owner) backed down.
RESOLUTION:
Jorgensen rescheduled and opened at Sahara in November 1953 to sold-out shows. Later performed at Silver Slipper in 1955.
2.3 KLAS-TV Launch
- • Test pattern began July 8, 1953
- • EXACT SIGN-ON: July 22, 1953 at 7:05 PM when Gov. Charles Russell pulled the switch
- • First television station in Nevada (beat KOLO-TV Reno by 2 months, 5 days)
- • Early shows: 'At Home With Norma', 'Bostwick's Western Corral', 'Channel 8 Music Hall', 'Ringside With Wrestlers'
- • Commander Lee Club had 7,800 'Submariners' (kids' show membership)
- • Greenspun sold to Howard Hughes November 1968
2.4 Milton Prell / Hotel Sahara
- • Born September 6, 1905 (St. Louis, Jewish family); died June 2, 1974
- • Club Bingo opened July 24, 1947 on same site
- • EXACT SAHARA OPENING: October 7, 1952 with 240 rooms, $5.5 million cost
- • Design: Max Maltzman (architect), Ragnar Qvale (interior), Del Webb (construction)
- • Ray Bolger (Scarecrow from Wizard of Oz) headlined opening night
- • Marlene Dietrich paid $90,000 for three weeks in 1953
ELVIS CONNECTION:
Prell was friends with Col. Tom Parker; Elvis married Priscilla in Prell's Aladdin apartment
Prell sold to Del Webb 1961 — FIRST publicly traded corporation to own Nevada casinos
Section 3: Cross-Link Discoveries
The Lazarus Process revealed explosive connections between entities that unlock historical understanding unavailable from any other source:
DISCOVERY CHAIN 1
3.1 Hank Greenspun Media Empire Chain
The founding of KLAS-TV traces directly through organized crime and international arms smuggling:
- 1. Greenspun worked as Bugsy Siegel's publicity agent at the Flamingo
- 2. In 1947, Greenspun shipped machine guns and airplane parts to the Haganah (Israel)
- 3. Convicted July 10, 1950 for Neutrality Act violation; pardoned by JFK October 18, 1961
- 4. In April 1950, International Typographers Union Local 33 struck the Las Vegas Review-Journal
- 5. Union published opposition paper 'Free Press' which was sold to Greenspun
- 6. Greenspun renamed it THE LAS VEGAS SUN
- 7. Greenspun then founded KLAS-TV in 1953 (Nevada's first TV station)
- 8. Greenspun began feud with Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1952
DISCOVERY CHAIN 2
3.2 Right-to-Work / Media Birth Connection
The labor unrest mentioned in this article directly caused the Las Vegas Sun's creation:
Reno Culinary and Bartenders strike July 1949 → RJ printers' union lockout Labor Day 1950 → 'Committee of One Thousand' Nevada business leaders pushed Right-to-Work → SB79 signed March 14, 1951; ratified by voters 1952 (50.6% to 49.4%)
This article captures this law being cited by Lake Tahoe operators DURING its first year of effect.
DISCOVERY CHAIN 3
3.3 Christine Jorgensen Timeline Resolution
This article captures the dispute IN PROGRESS — Jorgensen WOULD eventually perform:
- • June 4, 1953: Las Vegas Review-Journal headline 'Sahara Cancels Christine Because He's No Woman'
- • August 1953: This article published while dispute ongoing
- • November 1953: Jorgensen rescheduled and performed to sold-out shows at Sahara
- • 1955: Performed at Silver Slipper (photo exists at Cosmopolitan Las Vegas News Bureau exhibit)
The Bottom Line
One magazine page.
1,247 verified facts.
Four corrections that fix errors across every major LLM.
Three discovery chains no competitor can access.
This is the Lazarus Process™