Find where your sources disagree
Counts sources citing each other as one, and forbids settling anything with outside knowledge.
| Category | Using AI › Source-grounded AI |
|---|---|
| Tags | AnalyzingReviewingTable |
Compare what my sources say about this. ***Report the disagreement rather than resolving it.*** **For each source, per point:** 1. **What it claims**, ***quoted*** 2. **What that claim rests on** — ***data, another source, or assertion.* **Say which** 3. **When it is from** **Then classify every difference:** - **Definitional** — ***check this first. Most apparent conflicts are two definitions of one word*** - **Different data** — different populations, periods, or measures - **Superseded** — both were right; one is now old - **Genuine disagreement** — the field has not settled it - **One is wrong** — ***and say how that could be established from these sources*** **Also report:** - ***What they all agree on.* **And whether that agreement is independent** — **sources citing one another are one source** - **What only one source claims** — ***flag it.* **In a grounded set, a claim nobody else makes is either the key insight or an error, and the shape is the same** ⚠️ ***Use only the loaded sources. Do not bring in outside knowledge to settle anything*** — **that is the one thing that breaks a grounded workflow, and it is invisible in the output.** ***Do not average figures. Do not pick a side to give me a clean answer.***
After pasting, fill in the fields at the bottom (What to compare · My sources)
What this prompt does
A grounded workflow breaks silently when the model reaches outside the sources to reconcile a conflict — the output looks the same. This stays inside and classifies each disagreement.
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