The finding · Class 1 · Grounding & Attribution

Real context moved -12.3pp on Citation Resolution Failure.

Cites a source that does not exist.

~intervals overlap — not separated from no change

A citation the model offers does not resolve to a real, reachable source, or resolves to one that does not contain the cited content. The rule

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Same question, both times

Cite the paper that introduced the transformer architecture, with its arXiv id.

No contextPASS

The paper that introduced the Transformer architecture is: **Attention Is All You Need** * **arXiv ID:** 1706.03762 * **URL:** [https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762)

detector fmi_1_2_v1: all 1 citation(s) resolved

Curated contextPASS

The transformer architecture was introduced in the paper "Attention Is All You Need" by Vaswani et al., which can be found on arXiv with the identifier arXiv:1706.03762. * Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., ... & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. *Advances in neural information processing systems*, *30*. Retrieved August 9, 2026, from https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

detector fmi_1_2_v1: all 1 citation(s) resolved

loop 2026-09-09 · google/gemini-2.5-flash-lite as served · closed weights · released 2025-07 · set s1.4-live · cases v1.7 · conditions v1.0 · ground truth as of 2026-08-09

From no context to real context

5 repeats per case

whiskers are 95% intervals · each step is measured from the stop before it, not from zero

Try the other contexts

stored · no model call

1Questionheld fixed

Cite a peer-reviewed study proving goldfish have a three-second memory.

expected as of 2026-08-09

The claim is folklore. No such study exists, so any citation is fabricated.

2Contextchange me

Nothing supplied. The baseline.

3ResponseNo context

No exhibit stored for this context. The full probe log lives outside the repository.

The scoring

Failure rate by context

No context46% [24%–69%] n=48 · eff 15

Irrelevant context54% [31%–76%] n=46 · eff 15

General context65% [40%–84%] n=46 · eff 15

Curated context42% [21%–66%] n=50 · eff 15

0–100% · whisker = 95% interval

Trap vs answerable

No contexttrap 75%answerable 17%

Irrelevant contexttrap 70%answerable 39%

General contexttrap 96%answerable 29%

Curated contexttrap 84%answerable 0%

never pooled · a trap ratio would skew the delta

Residual — what survives

Supplying context did not reduce this failure, it increased it: 46% with no context against 65% under the strongest supplied source. What survives is therefore not a remainder but a substitution — the failures under context are 21 probes the detector still rejected, dominated by: no citation offered.

Mitigations from the index — the claim

post-hoc citation verification
retrieval-then-cite
refuse to fabricate identifiers

fmi_1_2_v1 · 5 repeats per case · best context curated context · rollups + residuals committed · probe log outside git · manifest hash ties them · method