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| Gate | Question | Defeats |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Retrieve | Does an authoritative index hold a record for this? | Wholesale fabrication |
| 2. Live | Does the canonical URL or DOI resolve right now? (Wayback fallback) | Dead links |
| 3. Match | Does the index canonical title match what was claimed? | Identifier hijacking |
| 4. Standing | Has the work been retracted or withdrawn? | Discredited sources |
The authorities are keyless and public: OpenAlex, Crossref, and arXiv for scholarship, CourtListener (Free Law Project) for U.S. case law, and GDELT plus live-page OpenGraph metadata for news. The most dangerous failure is not gibberish; it is a real, resolvable DOI paired with an invented title. The match gate exists to kill that pattern.
No. Every source is retrieved from an authoritative index, fetched live, and title-matched before display. No URL or citation is produced by a language model.
A verified source has cleared four gates: it exists in an authoritative index, its link resolves right now, its canonical title matches the claim, and it has not been retracted.
A real, resolvable DOI or URL paired with an invented title. The link works, so it looks verified. The match gate catches it by comparing the claimed title against the index canonical title.
OpenAlex, Crossref, and arXiv for academic work, CourtListener for U.S. case law, and GDELT with live-page metadata for news. All are public, keyless indexes.
Real Citations refuses to show a source it did not just fetch and verify. Island Mountain builds on-premises AI servers on the same idea: your data and your models stay under your control, not a vendor's.
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