Source: task/album-cue-precision (plan/steward-linker-design) — album cue regexes over-generated junk candidates (no left anchors), feeding noise to the resolver/LLM and risking fallback mis-links.
- X LP/EP branch: anchor the capture to a 1-4 capitalized/quoted title run (mirrors CAND_RE) so 'I think their new LP' no longer yields the sentence prefix.
- 'the album X' branch: require the name to start with a capital/quote and reject a leading verb/article (is|was|by|the|a|an) so 'the album by Carcass' / 'the album is great' yield no candidate.
- QUOTED_RE: reject prose quotes — a span with mid-string sentence punctuation (. ! ?), over ~6 words, or a lone stopword interjection ('lol') — so prose quotes never become album candidates.
- Preserve position mapping (trim a captured leading quote and shift the index) and dedupe identical spans across the two signals; recall of real titles ('Reign in Blood', 'Human Jerky') unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>