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A Correct Answer Could Still Hide a Contradictory Source

A three-level audit separates conflicts in the corpus, retrieved context and generated answer rather than scoring only the final response.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-09-015
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Summary

A three-level audit separates conflicts in the corpus, retrieved context and generated answer rather than scoring only the final response.

Across 100 controlled query-corpus cases in five domains, the framework found that retrieval similarity, corpus quality and answer consistency can move in different directions. It makes supporting and contradictory source-linked facts inspectable but does not certify external truth.

Why it matters

A three-level audit separates conflicts in the corpus, retrieved context and generated answer rather than scoring only the final response.

Limits and context

  • It makes supporting and contradictory source-linked facts inspectable but does not certify external truth.

Key claims

  1. A three-level audit separates conflicts in the corpus, retrieved context and generated answer rather than scoring only the final response.

    Qualification: It makes supporting and contradictory source-linked facts inspectable but does not certify external truth.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-09-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.07075arXiv · primary research

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