AI Systems · Systems and Thinking
Provenance and Sources
Provenance records where a claim, artifact, input, or output came from and how it was created, selected, changed, or reviewed. It helps someone trace a result back through its sources and the activities that shaped it.
Sources & review
Evidence and review
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- Review
- Human reviewed
- AI assistance
- Yes—human reviewed
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-23
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
This is a concise first-release record, not a complete course. Examples, terminology, and reviewed connections can grow through later public projections.
Follow the structure
Connected concepts
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Connected from
Knowledge Graphs and Relationships
Provenance can show where a graph statement came from, which activity created or changed it, and which review or version applies.
Connection boundary
A complete trace does not automatically make the graph statement correct, accepted, current, or public.
Connects to
Claims, Evidence, and Review
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.
Connects to
Units, Frames, and Uncertainty
Provenance can preserve which quantities, units, coordinate and time context, methods, and limitations accompanied a numerical result.
Connection boundary
Recording that context explains how to interpret the result; it does not prove the result accurate, valid, observed, or approved.