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Source Verification

Source verification is modeled as two separate concerns:

Source Verification Status

source_verification_status indicates whether source-backed legal assertions are verified, derived, partial, or unresolved. This communicates legal/source trust state, not model certainty.

Analysis Confidence

analysis_confidence is a numeric confidence score for extraction, matching, or inference workflows. This communicates confidence in analysis, not legal verification.

Why the Split Matters

A relationship can be:
  • high confidence but still unverified, or
  • verified with no confidence score required
The API treats these as distinct fields to avoid conflating legal trust with model certainty.