Fact Provenance
Fact Provenance is the complete chain of evidence for a factual claim — from the original source, through verification, to publication. Strong provenance increases AI trust and citation probability.
Definition
- Provenance answers: Where did this fact come from? Who verified it? When? How?
- A complete provenance chain: original source → verification method → confidence score → publication → timestamp.
- AI systems increasingly weight facts with strong provenance over unsourced claims.
Provenance components
- Source URL: the original authoritative source of the fact.
- Verification method: how the fact was confirmed (automated check, human review, multi-source).
- Confidence score: numerical measure of reliability (0-100).
- Verification date: when the fact was last confirmed to be accurate.
- Publisher: who published the verified fact (company, third party, platform).
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