Remember a name instead of searching again

Repeatedly searching backwards for Swaminathan seems wasteful. Keep a variable LastName. Start it as empty. Read forwards; when a recognized person name appears, update LastName. At a relevant pronoun, use the remembered name as a candidate. This replaces repeated scans with remembered information.

LastName = empty
for each word card X in paragraph order:
    if X is a recognized person name:
        LastName = X.Word
    if X is a relevant personal pronoun:
        if LastName is empty:
            report "Unresolved"
        else:
            report LastName as a candidate, not guaranteed meaning

For “his eyes” at position 9 and “He shuddered” at position 40, the candidate is Swaminathan. A single forward pass can generate these candidates without repeated backward scans. The rule must still be checked against what the sentence means.

The lecture discusses keeping more than one remembered person or object. That may help, but categories alone cannot resolve every sentence. Do not infer a person’s identity or pronoun use from a name. We use explicit passage context, and we leave the opening “It” and impersonal “it” outside this person-name demonstration.