Fig 1.
Map of the Oberämter (districts) of the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1848.
Table 1.
Evaluation metrics for tested LLMs on entity recognition task. Edit distance for fuzzy matching is set at 2.
Fig 2.
Combined approach workflow using direct lookup of names in the GBIF database and an LLM in case historical names are not found directly.
Table 2.
Evaluation metrics for the combined approach to the data linking task.
Table 3.
Accuracy results by species class.
Table 4.
Accuracy results for other levels of the taxonomy.
Table 5.
Accuracy results for four time spans.
Fig 3.
Distribution of detected taxa over districts and years.
Fig 4.
Proportions of most frequent classes of animals by districts and years. Regression lines in red indicate trends.
Fig 5.
Number of extracted animal mentions by district.
Fig 6.
Occurrence of wild boar, roe deer, and European hare in the districts according to source text. Green colour indicates presence, red absence, white no data for the district.