provenance
/ˈprɒvənəns/
the origin and history of information, including how it was collected or transformed
provenance in a sentence
“The report recorded each statistic's provenance so reviewers could trace it to the dataset.”
Origin of provenance
French provenir to come forth, from Latin provenire
Related Words
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the point after which a model's training knowledge is not expected to include new events or facts
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connecting a model's response to supplied, retrieved, or observed evidence
citation
an attribution that points readers to the source supporting a claim
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shortening accumulated context while preserving the facts, decisions, and state needed to continue
context engineering
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