Evidence & provenance

What supports a statement

Source evidence is the document or record supporting a particular statement. An observed fact says what the source reports; verification means a recheck only where explicitly recorded. An inference must remain labeled as an inference and must not become a verified relationship by repetition. Public employment or investment evidence is distinct from customer-private interaction context. A customer note can support what that customer recorded; it does not independently verify a public claim or grant redistribution rights. When evidence is missing or contradictory, retain the unknown and the limitation. Access to a document does not by itself establish permission to include it in a paid result. Licensed sources and organization submissions keep their source type; a restricted source URL may remain null. Source labels never grant redistribution rights.

Evidence source types

source_type	Meaning
official_website	A subject or organizer’s official published site.
filing	A filed document, such as accounts or regulatory reporting.
registry	A registry profile or record, distinct from the documents filed against it. Available only where supported; no universal registry match is implied.
public_reporting	Public reporting or news; distinguish reported statements from verified facts.
licensed_source	Permitted source metadata subject to license/disclosure rights. A restricted URL may remain null.
organization_submission	Information supplied by the organization. A stated claim is not automatic independent verification.
customer_provided	Separately authorized customer context; private notes and communications are not public entity facts.

Provenance availability

Supporting source references and notes belong beside permitted facts in a bounded result. Subscription views do not expose a citation URL or every date for every field, including all commitments. Missing provenance cannot be repaired by treating record modification time as source publication or verification. Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.

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Fictional request brief, entities, sources, values and dates. This is a documentation example, not a live HTTP response or customer result. Missing dates remain null.

Current availability: Reviewed bounded request. Execution: Manual / scoped. Automated invocation: Not currently available. API endpoint: None. MCP execution: None.

Input
Result
Evidence

A research brief for human scope review, not an API payload.

{
  "organization": "Example Automation Ltd",
  "question": "What supports the recorded parent relationship?",
  "intended_use": "Research preparation"
}

{
  "task_type": "evidence-pack",
  "status": "supported_with_unknowns",
  "entity": null,
  "subject": {
    "entity_type": "company",
    "name": "Example Automation Ltd",
    "website": "https://example.com/fictional/company",
    "research_scope": null
  },
  "as_of": null,
  "result": {
    "summary": "A fictional source supports the named company and recorded parent context; beneficial ownership remains unresolved.",
    "company": null,
    "criteria": [],
    "sections": [
      {
        "entity_type": "company",
        "data": {
          "name": "Example Automation Ltd",
          "description": null,
          "website": null,
          "sector": null,
          "subsector": null,
          "location": null,
          "country": null,
          "founded_year": null,
          "employee_count": null,
          "ownership_context": [
            {
              "name": "Example Industrial Holdings",
              "role": "Recorded parent organization",
              "date": null,
              "amount": null,
              "currency": null
            }
          ],
          "people": null,
          "transactions": null
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "evidence": [
    {
      "field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
      "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
      "source_type": "public_reporting",
      "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
      "captured_at": null,
      "observed_at": null,
      "verified_at": null,
      "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
    },
    {
      "field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
      "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
      "source_type": "public_reporting",
      "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
      "captured_at": null,
      "observed_at": null,
      "verified_at": null,
      "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
    }
  ],
  "unknowns": [
    "Ultimate beneficial ownership"
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "Fictional entities, sources, values and dates; no real customer result or live execution.",
    "Source coverage and output use remain subject to the agreed purpose and rights review."
  ],
  "rights": {
    "scope": "A task purchases the agreed bounded result, not database access, unrestricted API queries, contacts export or graph redistribution. Sources and unknowns accompany results. Purchaser authorization, scope acceptance, agreement and payment are required before manual fulfillment; no automated external task service is offered.",
    "raw_graph_access": false,
    "bulk_export": false,
    "graph_redistribution": false
  }
}

Each field path identifies the particular value supported by the source note.

Field path	Illustrated value	Source type	Basis
result.sections.0.data.name	”Example Automation Ltd”	public_reporting	Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.
result.sections.0.data.ownership_context	[{“name”:“Example Industrial Holdings”,“role”:“Recorded parent organization”,“date”:null,“amount”:null,“currency”:null}]	public_reporting	Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification.

[
  {
    "field": "result.sections.0.data.name",
    "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
    "source_type": "public_reporting",
    "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
    "captured_at": null,
    "observed_at": null,
    "verified_at": null,
    "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated name entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
  },
  {
    "field": "result.sections.0.data.ownership_context",
    "source_url": "https://example.com/fictional/source-1",
    "source_type": "public_reporting",
    "published_at": "2026-09-12T09:30:00Z",
    "captured_at": null,
    "observed_at": null,
    "verified_at": null,
    "basis": "Fictional source supports the illustrated ownership context entry. This does not establish current interest or independent verification."
  }
]

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