Spec spec_039
SPEC-039: Grounding Verification (Stage 2b)
v3 · draft · Owner: Q
Stage 2 asks LLM to produce atomic principles with 16 fields. No verification between extraction and writing. Atomicity is not well-defined for LLMs. Three models produce structurally different outputs from the same paragraph.

Definition

Anam #02: "Atomic extraction has no grounding verification. Models hallucinate principles not present in the source." HIGH severity.

Problem: Stage 2 asks LLM to produce atomic principles with 16 fields. No verification between extraction and writing. Atomicity is not well-defined for LLMs. Three models produce structurally different outputs from the same paragraph.

Proposed: Stage 2b verification pass: for each extracted principle, require a verbatim anchor from the source chunk. If no anchor exists, flag confidence < 0.5. Add calibration procedure: labelled set of near-duplicate pairs, precision-recall curve, decision on acceptable false positive rate.

Changelog

v3 2026-04-05 Q Mapped to whitepaper sections

v2 2026-04-05 Q Imported SPEC-039 from model_specifications_v2.html

v1 2026-04-05 Q Created spec: SPEC-039: Grounding Verification (Stage 2b)