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Glossary/Evidence grades

Contested

The evidence does not agree with itself. Either two credible sources state it differently, or the record directly contradicts the claim as stated. This is not a weaker fact — it is a finding in its own right, and the disagreement is usually the thing worth acting on.

The definition the product enforces, read from the same code the methodology page renders.

How to read it

When Contested appears on a page

Not a weaker fact. The record disagrees with itself about this claim, and the page tells you which sources say what. On a research page the contested rows are often the ones worth acting on first, because the disagreement is where the decision actually lives.

The family

Evidence grades

The grade every claim on a research page carries: how it is known, not how confident it sounds. Assigned by the same rules on every scan; the rollup numbers are computed from the graded rows.

VerifiedCorroborated against an outside source, and that source is linked.GroundedCame from material the scan actually read, with a named source.PartialSome support, not enough to call it settled.UnverifiedAsserted in the material, with nothing behind it.Your inputYou supplied it. The scan took it as given.TrainingFrom the model's prior knowledge, not from anything fetched.From the recordPresent in the material with no provenance attached.GapSomething the analysis could not establish, reported as missing.
Where you will see it

On these pages

Kinds of research that print it
Event →Inquiry →Open Case →Scholar →Market Research →
Surfaces
Every research page's FACTS tab and footer
The Sources sidebar
The corroboration view of your own research
The rubric

The whole grading vocabulary, on one page

Every grade here is assigned by the same rules on every scan, and the methodology page renders those rules from the code that enforces them.

How the grades work →The whole glossary