Verify Every Answer Against Its Source

Today's Goals

1. Choose the relevant sources for each research question.
2. Check whether a citation location actually supports its claim.
3. Record questions that the available sources cannot answer.

D1 left us with a question, a source register, and permission decisions. Today we test a different promise: a cited answer sounds grounded, but does the cited passage establish the exact sentence beside it? Gemini Notebook can answer questions about selected sources and offer source references. Your job is to inspect those references. Our fictional urban shade bundle remains fixed. The answer samples in the lab are authored training fixtures; they are not outputs from a live service.

Plain-Language Walkthrough

Limit the evidence set before asking

A librarian answering a question about one book does not silently borrow a fact from another shelf. Apply the same discipline to notebook questions. If you ask what CITY-01 measured at stops A and B, select the relevant source and state the scope. If you ask how riders described waiting, use RIDER-02 under its internal-only permission. Do not combine the public vendor brochure with a city measurement merely because both contain the word “shade.” Record the source IDs in the question log so another researcher knows which evidence was in play.

The source selection is an experiment variable. Ask a question once with CITY-01 and once with CITY-01 plus VENDOR-03, and compare the claims. The second answer might add the supplier's marketing number. That number has not become a city observation because it appeared beside a city memo. Name the type of each claim in your record: direct extract, bounded synthesis, interpretation, or proposed action. The first two may be answerable from sources; interpretation needs explicit reasoning; an action needs a decision owner. This prevents a fluent answer from smuggling a recommendation into a factual summary.

Write questions at the grain of evidence. “What do all riders think?” cannot be answered from six interviews. “Which discomfort themes appear in the six consented notes, and which notes mention them?” is answerable. “How many degrees cooler will stop C be?” is not answerable from the current bundle. Source-scoped questioning is not a magic incantation; it simply gives you a fair test. If the assistant replies with a precise number where no number exists, the correct result is a failed evidence check, not an invitation to find a more flattering citation.

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