SEAN Factbook data error

What is the chance that Saint Bede the Venerable logos4:Factbook;ref=bio.saintbedevenerable was Episcopal given:

He died 8 centuries before the Reformation
He died 9 centuries before Christians showed up in America ... a prerequisite for being the earliest Episcopalian

It seems that you could run some reasonableness edits to avoid such obvious errors ... it would increase users' faith in your data.

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MJ. Smith

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Sean Boisen

What is the chance that Saint Bede the Venerable logos4:Factbook;ref=bio.saintbedevenerable was Episcopal given:

He died 8 centuries before the Reformation

He died 9 centuries before Christians showed up in America ... a prerequisite for being the earliest Episcopalian

It seems that you could run some reasonableness edits to avoid such obvious errors ... it would increase users' faith in your data.

Corrected: he's now associated with the Medieval Era era of Christians.

We've been adding some validation checks to try and flag these kinds of consistency problems (a continuing challenge across more than 110k authors, and multiple sources of data): your heuristic is a good one that we'll implement.