Cross-session · Verification · 02

Relational Co-Occurrence Sieve

Two real facts can still compose a lie. After confirming each entity exists, this sieve asks the harder question: do they actually belong together? It pulls the primary subject's real Wikipedia page and checks that every other name, date, and place in the claim genuinely appears on it.

Big idea: the lie lives in the relationship, not the ingredients — "Lincoln," "iPhone," and "1865" are all real, but iPhone never appears on Lincoln's page.

⚠ Needs internet — this tool runs live Wikipedia lookups. Best for solo or studio investigation; not ideal as a live screen-share on shaky wifi.

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Lvl 1 · entity existence
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Lvl 2 · page co-occurrence
Level 1 — entity existenceWaiting
Extracts proper-noun phrases and dates, then queries Wikipedia for each.
Level 2 — co-occurrence on the pageWaiting
Requires every anchor to actually appear on the primary subject's page.

Field note · the flaw in checking proper nouns alone

A confident chef is not a trustworthy one. If a passage claims "Abraham Lincoln used an iPhone," a naive checker looks up Lincoln and iPhone, sees both exist, and stamps it true. The lie lives in the relationship, so the sieve runs the inspector twice.

Level 1 · the pantry
Do the ingredients exist?

Confirm every entity printed on the recipe card is a real article.

Level 2 · the cookbook
Have they ever been combined?

Open the subject's page and check the other ingredients are actually written into it — not just real somewhere else.