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Structured Retrieval Earned Its Cost in the Audit Trail, Not the Answer Score

An ontology-driven finance system tied every selected fact to a complete provenance chain.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-24-010
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Summary

An ontology-driven finance system tied every selected fact to a complete provenance chain.

On FinanceBench, KDAF and BM25 were statistically indistinguishable on answer correctness, but KDAF reached citation-traceability F1 of 0.515 and admitted no evidence outside the question's subject entity. The negative accuracy result sharpens the claim: structured retrieval's measurable advantage here was auditability.

Why it matters

An ontology-driven finance system tied every selected fact to a complete provenance chain.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. An ontology-driven finance system tied every selected fact to a complete provenance chain.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-24-010

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.20661arXiv · primary research

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