Question 30
Two retrieval agents disagree about a supplier’s deployment date. An aggregator compresses both findings into “deployment occurred recently” and removes the document IDs. What output design best supports a defensible answer?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Claim-level provenance prevents a synthesis step from laundering conflict into a false definite fact. Reviewers can trace each date to its evidence and assess freshness.
Incorrect Answers
A date average has no source support and invents an event time. Conflicting records require clarification, not arithmetic compromise.
Response order does not establish evidence quality. Silencing a contradiction misleads the reader about uncertainty.
Without attribution, downstream users cannot verify the competing dates. Concision should not erase the evidence required for auditability.