Figure 2From “A vendor page supplied one tested source path for the 5x retention rule”
Nineteen of thirty-six, and where the errors route
Nineteen of thirty-six answers carry at least one provenance error. The thirty-six entries behind them split twenty-two routed to a cited document against fourteen not established: the marked row is the floor the essay refuses to call a measurement.
Figure 2Nineteen of thirty-six, and where the errors route
Source: The pair's replication package: coding.json, 36 counted answers across three questions, recounted 2026-07-28 and recomputed against the shipped package 2026-08-19. Six of the fourteen not-established entries are Gemini rows whose citation URLs the collector does not retain, so the split is a floor, not a measurement.

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- A RAUD26-C1 Retrieval audit 2026-07: of 36 counted answers across three questions, 19 carry at least one provenance error; the 36 error entries split 22 routed to a cited document against 14 not established, six of the fourteen on Gemini rowsdataset-retrieval-audit-2026-07: registered 2026-08-19 (D-B165 pattern), recomputed against the shipped package that day
Grades: A, verified against the printed page of the primary source · B, primary source, text layer only · C, authoritative secondary · D, reported.
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