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Glossary/Evidence grades

Grounded

The claim traces to something the scan fetched and read during the run — reporting, a filing, a dataset, a document — rather than to model memory. A source is named. What is missing is a second, independent check, which is the only thing separating this from verified.

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

How to read it

When Grounded appears on a page

The most common grade on a well-sourced page. The claim traces to something the scan read during the run and the source is named; what is missing is the second check. When a grounded claim matters to a decision, open the source before you repeat it as settled.

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.PartialSome support, not enough to call it settled.ContestedSources disagree, or the record contradicts it.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