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#provenance
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- Separate verified facts from inference Give exact sourced claims and useful hypotheses separate generation and validation rules.
- Resolve the subject once for every build path Use one record resolver across entry points and preserve an unresolved subject instead of substituting a nearby match.
- Demote Duplicate Signals to Cross-Checks Stop a summary engine from voting again on concepts already covered by dedicated inputs.
- Keep lookup links separate from source citations Make feed items navigable without turning convenience links into evidence in exported notes.
- Fill Missing Identifiers From Verified Catalog Data Transfer an authentic identifier already held for the exact variant; refuse invented replacements.
- Build a staged, rerunnable data refinery Preserve raw records, filter and synthesize relevant facts, then validate output before replacing an existing artifact.
- Separate source capability from ingested data Record what a source exposes alongside the subset your pipeline actually stores.
- Anchor report values to a source snapshot Give every decision-facing value an observation time and an identifiable snapshot.
- Preserve Unknowns in Verified Snapshots Require evidence for negative findings and keep interpreted document fields outside verified facts.
- Preserve Observation Meaning and Vintages Keep measurement identity, missingness, availability, and revisions explicit.
- Mark clipped source lists as incomplete Prevent a truncated entity list from being consumed as the complete record.
- Map a dataset to a constrained schema Separate observed mappings from grounded inference, normalize values, and validate output.
- Keep provisional values inside editable fields Prevent a convenient starting value from becoming an uncorrectable factual claim.
- Build and Verify a Corridor Profile Capture context, assemble evidence, preview generated sections, validate, and verify the saved profile.
- Build a Producer from Recorded Source Bodies Replay exact fetched bodies offline and bind each extracted field to its actual retrieval.
- Add a Domain to a Data Brief Factory Extend a shared brief pipeline with a source adapter and deterministic analysis, preserving fact provenance.
- Trace every rendered number to a source fact Bind typed facts into fixed output slots and lint the final artifact.
- Resolve Brands Through Validated Fixtures Prefer trusted stored brands, retain live enrichment as a fallback, and report the origin of each selection.
- Record which builder produced each document Validate recipe keys and carry truthful provenance across document versions.
- Choose a graph by content and revision coverage Distinguish code indexes, documentary graphs, and diagrams before querying them.