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Claims, Evidence, and Review

A claim is a statement that can be inspected. Evidence is material considered in relation to a claim. A review decision records what a named reviewer accepted, returned for changes, did not accept, or left unresolved for a stated purpose. These roles should remain separate.

Sources & review

How Atlas supports this record.

Atlas uses original Kinesema wording. These public sources support narrow parts of the record; they are not endorsements or proof of claims outside the roles shown below.

Review
Human reviewed
AI assistance
Yes—human reviewed
Last reviewed
2026-08-23

RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax

World Wide Web Consortium

Used here for
RDF provides one formal graph data model for representing information as subject-predicate-object triples.
Source use
Paraphrased from source
Source type
W3C Recommendation

PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model

World Wide Web Consortium

Used here for
Provenance can describe entities, activities, agents, and relations such as generation, usage, derivation, attribution, association, and delegation.
Source use
Paraphrased from source
Source type
W3C Recommendation

ECO: the Evidence and Conclusion Ontology, an update for 2022

Suvarna Nadendla et al.

Used here for
Within biomedical biocuration, ECO distinguishes evidence types from assertion methods and supports capturing evidence for assertions with provenance and quality-control roles.
Source use
Paraphrased from source
Source type
peer-reviewed primary project report

This is a concise first-release record, not a complete course. Examples, terminology, and reviewed connections can grow through later public projections.

Connected concepts

These are reviewed Atlas relationships, not suggestions inferred from page order or visual proximity. Open a boundary only when you want the extra detail.

Connected from

Knowledge Graphs and Relationships

A graph may record claims and connect them with evidence or review state, but the encoded node or edge remains a statement to inspect rather than proof by itself.

Connection boundary

This relationship does not turn graph structure, connectivity, or consistency into truth, consensus, or evidential sufficiency.

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Parsers and Structured Transformation

A parser result can become material for later evaluation or review while remaining distinguishable from a reviewed claim or accepted interpretation.

Connection boundary

Passing parser rules or tests does not turn generated structure into truth, evidence sufficiency, linguistic acceptance, or approval.

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Provenance and Sources

Provenance helps distinguish a source claim, evidence considered for or against it, transformations applied to it, and the later review decision.

Connection boundary

Knowing the origin of material does not determine whether the evidence is sufficient or which conclusion a reviewer must reach.