Verdict
The state of an authority after checking. Three values only: verified (the citation resolves to a real source and the text matches), needs a check (nobody has confirmed it yet, or it could not be confirmed), and not found (it was looked for and it does not exist).
Research and verification
Words we do not use for this
- accurate
- correct
- guaranteed
- 100% verified
See also
- AuthorityA case, a statute or a piece of regulator material cited in an answer. The reference table is labelled Authorities when a run cites primary law, and References when it only cites firm documents or web sources.
- Needs a checkThe third verdict, and the phrase to use in prose. It is deliberately plain and unalarming: something that has not been checked is not something that is wrong.
- GateA deterministic check that runs on output, code rather than a model's opinion. Four of them: match-set (every citation in the answer must be one that was actually retrieved), quote-verbatim (a quoted passage must appear word for word in the retrieved source), confidence-floor (a claim below the threshold is held rather than passed through), and closed-world-URL (a link from a domain outside the allow-list does not render).