The engine corrected its own record
On July 7, 2026, we audited our own connection data and found that every automatically-detected “cites” link — 2,050 of them — overclaimed. This page is the honest account of what was wrong, what we did, and how you can re-check all of it. We are telling you because an engine that cannot say we were wrong cannot be trusted when it says this holds.
What was wrong
Our library links records to the Scripture they engage. An earlier pass created those links by matching book names: if an entry's text contained the word “Matthew,” the engine recorded “cites Matthew.” The audit found that not one of those 2,050 links pointed at an actual passage — no chapter, no verse. An entry that merely named a book was being credited with citing it. “Herodias cites John” read as if Herodias quoted the gospel; the entry only mentioned the name.
What we did — three movements
cites to references — the truthful verb. Nothing was deleted:
every link, and the correction itself, stays in the record.
See one: “Easton: Chaldee
language references Matthew” →cites, and the edge records the exact reference as its
evidence. 2,841 genuine citations were re-earned this way.
See one: “Easton: Erastus cites
Acts” — evidence: Acts 19:22 →The numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Overclaimed “cites” links found & demoted | 2,050 |
| Genuine citations re-earned (chapter:verse evidence) | 2,841 |
| Name cross-references added (curated person/place) | 8,873 |
| Records with no connections — before → after | 43.1% → 7.9% |
| Links deleted or hidden | 0 |
Every change was mechanical, re-runnable, and reversible; the tools that made them are in the open source. No link exists that cannot show its evidence.
Why this matters beyond us
Most systems that discover an embarrassment in their data quietly fix it — or quietly keep it. A record you can trust is one that keeps the correction in the record. The same discipline governs the verification engine itself: it holds a public benchmark of 0 false positives across sixty domains, because the one unforgivable act for a verifier is sealing a falsehood — including its own.
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