Citations and confidence

Click a cell

Clicking an answer opens the citations panel beside the table. The table is pushed rather than covered, so you keep the row in view while you read its source. The panel shows:

• The cited pages as a strip of thumbnails — a cell can rest on more than one.
• The quote, highlighted, with the same highlight drawn over the page image below it, so you can see the passage in the context of the page rather than as an extract.
• The page itself, downloadable as a PDF if you need to send it to someone. Not for a row whose document is an image — there was never a PDF to cut a page out of, so the button is absent rather than broken.

The panel stays open as you click other cells, and each row you open becomes a tab in it — so comparing the same clause across three documents is three tabs, not three round trips. Within a row you can page through every citation the row has, column by column. The panel is resizable, because a page image and a wide table are in permanent competition for the same screen.

An image answer cites the same way

A cell from an image column is a picture rather than a sentence, and it is evidenced exactly like one: the document, the page, and the region outlined on the page image. What changes is that there is nothing to quote, so the panel shows the description the model wrote of what it found — in the same tint as a quote, but without the quotation marks, because it is a description we generated rather than words lifted off the page.

A cell holding several pictures gets a citation for each, in the order the thumbnails appear, so the third thumbnail and the third citation are the same region. Where the region could not be pinned down the citation is the whole page — the answer is still true, just less precise about where on the page to look.

What a citation is anchored to

A page, and a quote on it. That is a deliberately modest claim: it says the answer was read here, not that this page is the only place the matter is dealt with. For a question where a document contradicts itself between the recitals and the operative clauses, the citation tells you which one was used — which is exactly the case where you would want to know. See columns for how to write a prompt that says where to look.

On a row backed by a bundle, the citation also tells you which document the answer came from. “90 days, per Amendment 2” is a different claim from “90 days”.

Confidence

Each answer carries a confidence value alongside its citations. It is not printed in the grid as a number — what it does instead is drive triage: answers that came back below the threshold are collected on your home page as low confidence, which means extracted, current, not overridden by anyone, and the model was not sure.

Low confidence wants a person rather than a rerun. Rerunning an unsure answer usually produces another unsure answer; opening the cited page settles it in seconds. Once you have typed over the cell, it drops out of the list — an overridden answer has been checked by definition.

How to spot-check a table

The point of citations is that verification is targeted rather than total. A workable routine on a table you are about to rely on:

1. Clear the failed cells first — they have no answer at all.
2. Work through the low-confidence list, opening each cited page. This is where wrong answers actually live.
3. Spot-check a handful of confident answers per column — enough to satisfy yourself the column is asking the right question, not enough to re-read the documents.
4. Fix what is wrong by typing over it. The original is kept underneath — see corrections.

If a column is wrong more often than it is right, the fix is the prompt, not the cells. Edit it, rerun two rows, and check again before rerunning the rest.