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What does data lineage mean?

Table 1What does data lineage mean?

Object	Question it answers	Minimum record
Provenance	Which entities, activities, and agents were involved?	Entity, activity, agent, relation, time
Data lineage	Which path and operation produced this field or result?	Input and output version, operation, key, timestamp, owner
Data quality	Does the resulting field fit the declared decision?	Rule, observed state, evidence, exception, disposition
Event history	Which business events occurred, and when?	Immutable event, subject, type, effective time, ingestion time

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What is data lineage? The transformations behind a result

Data lineage traces a reported result through inputs, joins, filters, and transformations. Name every version before calling a number reproducible.

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@misc{isoglu-2026-what-is-data-lineage-fig01,
  author = {Isoglu, Sinan},
  title = {{What does data lineage mean?}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Table 1, isoglu.com},
  url = {https://isoglu.com/insights/exhibits/isoglu-2026-what-is-data-lineage-fig01/},
  note = {From the essay {What is data lineage? The transformations behind a result}}
}

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