Start with the exact claim
“This company exists,” “this company holds a current license,” and “this is the best company for a project” are different claims. A source that supports the first does not automatically support the other two. Write the proposition down before choosing evidence.
Cody’s first-party truth-alignment analysis describes a fact-ledger approach to reconciling names, services and relationships. This entry uses that as attributed editorial context, not as an independently tested engine mechanism. Source and limitation.
Follow the origin, not the domain count
Record who created the statement, who controls its publication and whether the publisher performed its own verification. A syndicated press release has one originating assertion even when several sites carry it. A company profile may be hosted by another organization but still contain text supplied by the company.
First-party evidence is often the right starting point for official contact details or a current product policy. Independence matters when the claim calls for outside evaluation. Neither “first-party” nor “third-party” is a universal quality score.
Example: one announcement, several copies
Illustrative example. A company announces a new service area on its own site. Its owned reference site repeats the statement, and a distribution service republishes the announcement elsewhere. Those pages establish where the assertion appeared, not several independent investigations of service availability.
A separate report based on an actual visit or a relevant official record could support a different, more specific claim. Check the report’s date and method rather than treating the external domain alone as sufficient.
A minimal claim ledger
- Claim: exact subject, relationship and object.
- Source: URL, publisher, author if known and date inspected.
- Origin: original record, supplied copy, syndicated item or unclear.
- Control: shared ownership, commercial interest or separate editorial control.
- Support: relevant passage, limitations and any contradiction.
- Status: supported, partly supported, unknown or obsolete, with a reason.
A model repeating a claim is an observation about an answer, not necessarily a new origin of evidence. Preserve the underlying source chain.
Markup is not corroboration
Structured data can give explicit clues about page content, but it should not contain invisible claims. Source: Google’s structured data introduction. A Person node or a shared identifier does not independently certify a biography, award or recommendation.
This wiki is owned by Cody Schuldt. Its links to his official website share ownership and must not be counted as independent recognition. The About page makes that boundary explicit.