Gloss — Evidence rules

Rules for interpreting labels in <source-key>!gloss companion notes. A label is a retrieval hint unless its evidence status and source passage support using it as a fact.

Evidence statusMeaningAllowed use
text-supportedAll content words in the label occur in the source text.Retrieval and factual summaries, with the source passage retained.
relatedThe embedding match is plausible, but exact wording is incomplete or paraphrased.Retrieval and suggestions; do not present as an established fact.
unsupportedThe label has no adequate source-word support.Keep only for audit/debugging; exclude from factual output.

Specific claims

Dates, places, people, tools, operating systems, statuses, occasions and completion claims require direct source support. A semantic match alone is insufficient. Preserve negation and polarity from the source; a label must not turn “avoid X” into “X”.

Current implementation

The source-aware reranker searches the top 50 cached cosine candidates, gives a small bonus to text-supported labels and penalties to related or unsupported labels, then keeps two. This reduces unsupported factor labels in the current corpus from 88 to 1, but the rule and thresholds remain draft until the evaluation set is expanded.

version 1  ·  created 2026-09-18  ·  updated 2026-09-18  ·  tags gloss, evidence, retrieval, draft