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Conflicting Sources Fact Checking: What Explanations Must Show

A 2026 explainer on conflicting sources in fact checking: evidence-relation matrix, span removal tests and six scores, drawing on CLUE, ConfRAG (57.2% of 1,814 questions) and NatConfQA.

November 2, 2026• 30 min read
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Structured Data Verification: When Facts Need a Query

Structured data verification for claims over joined tables: ClaimDB's 53,368 claims, a synthetic SQLite witness with 11 perturbations, separate abstention and reproducibility metrics with Wilson intervals (2026).

October 31, 2026• 29 min read
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When is evidence sufficient for fact checking? Omission tests

A 2026 research protocol for deciding when evidence licenses a fact-checking verdict, using deletion and restoration tests, abstention metrics, source snapshots and reviewer-effort measures.

October 23, 2026• 23 min read
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