I am trying out the AI prompt builder. In the Data to Include section I placed a checkmark next to all the family relationships - spouses, children, parents, siblings. In the prompt that was built for the primary person I selected, her mother’s birth year is listed incorrectly as 1842, which is the birth year of the primary person. In fact, her mother has three birth facts “abt 1807”, “abt 1810” and another with no year, just a place of Ireland. None of them are flagged as primary, private, nor any proof value. RM shows 1807 in the Edit Person header, so that would seem the logical one that should have been used.
Also for one of her three children that child’s birth year is set to 1872, which is a birth fact on him, but I have marked that one as disproven. It should have used 1871, which is the only other birth fact I have on him and which I have marked as Primary.
Full disclosure, I did not pick up on this problem until ChatGPT called it out: “The provided mother Julia CARROLL (1842–1863) conflicts with Annie’s birth in 1842.”
I’ve never used this feature and know nothing about it. My uninformed “take” on those date spans is that they are periods that BEGIN with the earliest year when each individual might potentially could have had a family relationship with the focus person. Before ABT 1842, Annie could not have had a family relationship with her mother. Then, my next inquiry would be to wonder… did Julia die in 1863 (the ending potential year they could have had a relationship) ? Something akin to that for starting dates and then, ending dates being deaths of either party to the relationship, maybe?
something does look off – hard to know because it looks like many people have multiple events for the same event type. First glance it looks like On Charles Thomas it might be picking up the last DOB? (regardless of Primary?) is that true of the other people?
Something is definitely amiss but hard to know what is happening.
Does it work correctly without the parents’ info added - meaning which Birth date is shown, you have multiple ones.
I made a Fact called Bir2, Bir3 and just copied the original Birth and renamed. When I have conflicting dates I find it easier.
Alternately have one Birth and in the Notes put other dates and the Source
I have not been able to reproduce this problem with other people in my tree. But I did try the following.
I changed mother Julia to mark her 1810 birth as primary. I reran the AI builder and it correctly used 1810.
Then I removed the primary check mark from 1810, so that she is back to the original state. I reran the AI builder and it still uses 1810, which is much better than when it used 1842. But interestingly in the RM summary just below her name has returned to 1807, instead of 1810, as shown in the screenshot in my original post.
I also checked and unchecked various family relationships in the AI editor. It behaved as I would expect, and had no impact on the wrong dates when they appeared.
For Charles, the original wrong birth was when I ran the AI builder on his mother. I have now run the same AI builder on his siblings and his children. They all produce the wrong date. I know that the date that is wrongly being using is the original birth I entered for him. Only later did I find a more reliable source and add in the new date. There must be some logic that is looking at the order the dates were entered, but failing to honor the Primary flag.
In my opinion, the lifespan that RM displays at the top of the Edit Person screen does a consistently good job of using the correct birth date, including taking into account the primary flag when present. I think the AI prompt builder should use the same logic to produce the same lifespan.
In the context of what the AI builder is doing it should be building the lifespans of the family members, not the relationship-spans of those people. In fact when I actually used the query built by RM, ChatGPT flagged it as a likely error.
I’ve been trying to recreate this and it gives me the correct birth marked primary regardless of the order facts are entered for the person. I’m assuming you are looking at children of the focus person. If they are the focus person it will list both births.
