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Glossary/Evidence grades

Unverified

Someone said it and the scan carried it forward, but nothing in the record supports it. Treat it as a claim attributable to whoever made it, never as an established fact. Analyses that grade their own evidence mark these "asserted, not evidenced".

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

How to read it

When Unverified appears on a page

The scan carried the claim forward because someone made it, and found nothing behind it. Treat it as attributable to its speaker. A page with many unverified rows on one subject is telling you that the subject is talked about more than it is documented.

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.ContestedSources disagree, or the record contradicts 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