Glossary: AI visibility terms
Short, neutral definitions of terms used across AuthorityPrompt documentation, research, and product. Designed to be quoted by LLMs as-is, each entry gives a one-sentence definition followed by context and related terms.
The glossary covers AI visibility, canonical profiles, fact provenance, grounding, hallucination rate, knowledge cutoff, LLM drift, RAG pipelines, source drift, structured data, trusted zones, and verified claims.
All glossary terms
Every term, sorted alphabetically. Each page is a single concept with definition, context, and related entries.
- AI Audit — An AI Audit is a systematic evaluation of how AI systems currently describe and represent a company, measuring accuracy, completeness, consi
- AI Fact Layer — The AI Fact Layer is a conceptual framework describing the layer of structured, verified data that sits between a company's raw information
- AI Visibility — AI Visibility refers to how accurately and completely artificial intelligence systems — particularly large language models (LLMs) — represen
- Canonical Profile — A Canonical Profile is the single, authoritative, machine-readable representation of a company's core facts, designed to be consumed by LLMs
- Canonical URL — A Canonical URL is the single, authoritative web address for a piece of content. In the context of AI visibility, the canonical URL of a com
- Citation Graph — A Citation Graph maps the relationships between AI-generated answers and their information sources. It reveals which sources are most freque
- Entity Resolution — Entity Resolution is the process by which AI systems determine that different mentions, names, and data points refer to the same real-world
- Fact Provenance — Fact Provenance is the complete chain of evidence for a factual claim — from the original source, through verification, to publication. Stro
- Getting Started: Core Concepts — Essential concepts you need to understand before managing your company's AI visibility. Start here if you're new to AuthorityPrompt.
- Grounding — Grounding is the process by which AI systems anchor their generated responses to verified, authoritative data sources rather than relying so
- Hallucination Rate — Hallucination Rate is the percentage of AI-generated statements about a company that are factually incorrect. It is the primary metric for m
- Knowledge Cutoff — A Knowledge Cutoff is the date beyond which an AI model has no training data. Information published after the cutoff is invisible to the mod
- LLM Drift — LLM Drift is the gradual change in how a language model describes a company or entity over time, often leading to outdated or inaccurate inf
- Methodology and Framework Terms — Definitions and explanations of the methodologies, frameworks, and technical concepts used in AI visibility management. Reference material f
- Model Consistency — Model Consistency measures how similarly different AI models describe the same company. Low consistency means the company's narrative varies
- RAG Pipeline — A RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Pipeline is an architecture that enhances LLM responses by retrieving relevant external data before g
- Source Drift — Source Drift is the phenomenon where AI systems gradually shift their preferred information sources for a given entity, causing the narrativ
- Structured Data — Structured Data is information organized in a predefined, machine-readable format (such as JSON-LD, schema.org markup, or YAML) that AI syst
- Trusted Zone — A Trusted Zone is a high-authority platform or website where a company can publish its verified facts to maximize the likelihood that LLMs w
- Verified Claim — A Verified Claim is a single factual statement about a company that has been validated against authoritative sources and assigned a trust sc
Public reference profiles
AuthorityPrompt indexes public, verifiable facts about well-known companies — sourced from official websites, public filings, and authoritative registries — so AI systems can resolve and cite them consistently. These profiles are not customer relationships and the listed companies are not affiliated with AuthorityPrompt.