# Source Metadata Hardening Report

Generated: 2026-06-07

## Current Schema Status

- Source-of-truth evidence rows live in `data/evidence/items/*.json`.
- Citations currently remain backward-compatible: rows may use raw citation strings or structured citation objects.
- Structured citation objects are now supported by the source index generator and evidence page renderers when present.
- Raw string citations still validate and export; no global citation rewrite was attempted.
- Citation metadata is being progressively hardened. Some older rows may still contain raw citation strings. A citation attached to a row should not automatically be interpreted as direct support unless source_role or row notes say so.

## Supported Structured Citation Fields

`raw`, `author`, `title`, `year`, `publisher_or_journal`, `url`, `doi`, `isbn`, `page_or_section`, `source_role`, `claim_supported`, `source_posture`, `notes`.

Allowed `source_role` values: `primary_text`, `direct_support`, `critical_pressure`, `background_context`, `methodological_analogy`, `remove_or_reassign`.

Allowed `source_posture` examples: `primary`, `mainstream_academic`, `skeptical_academic`, `christian_academic`, `apologetic`, `popular`, `technical`, `hostile`, `unknown`.

## Current Counts

- Evidence items scanned: 309
- Citation entries: 1249
- Raw string citations remaining: 1036
- Structured citation objects: 213
- Structured citations with `source_role`: 26
- Invalid structured roles detected: 0
- Invalid structured postures detected: 0

Role counts among structured citations:

| source_role | count |
| --- | --- |
| primary_text | 7 |
| direct_support | 12 |
| critical_pressure | 3 |
| background_context | 4 |
| methodological_analogy | 0 |
| remove_or_reassign | 0 |

## Rows Upgraded In This Pass

- `EV-ERC-1COR15`
- `E-1COR15-CREED`
- `EV-1COR-15-3-7`
- `EV-000340`
- `E-HIST-1COR15-WITNESS-STRUCTURE-CONTEXT`

## Rows With Structured Citation Objects Present

- `E-1COR15-CREED`
- `E-ABSTRACT-CATEGORY-UNITY`
- `E-ARCH-OSSUARY-PRACTICE`
- `E-ATTR-PRECISION`
- `E-BINDING-PROBLEM`
- `E-BUD-ANATTA-COGSCI`
- `E-BUD-DUKKHA-FIT`
- `E-BUD-MINDFUL-META`
- `E-BUD-NAGARJUNA`
- `E-BUD-NOSELF-DEPENDENT-ORIG`
- `E-BURIAL-JOSEPH`
- `E-CAIAPHAS-OSS`
- `E-CONSCIOUSNESS`
- `E-CONVERGENT-EVOLUTION`
- `E-COSMO-BGV`
- `E-DIVINE-SIMPLICITY`
- `E-FINETUNE-CONSTANTS`
- `E-GOD-RELATIONAL`
- `E-HIN-ATMAN-BRAHMAN`
- `E-HINDU-VAISH-3`
- `E-HIST-1COR15-WITNESS-STRUCTURE-CONTEXT`
- `E-ISLAM-MIRACLE-CLAIMS`
- `E-ISLAM-QURAN-CHRISTOLOGY`
- `E-ISLAM-RING-COMPOSITION`
- `E-JUDAISM-MESSIAH-NONDIVINE-DAVIDIC-KING`
- `E-MAL-3-1`
- `E-MATH-INDISPENSABILITY`
- `E-MESSIAH-ND-2`
- `E-MESSIAH-ND-3`
- `E-METH-BAYESIAN-LIKELIHOODS`
- `E-METH-MAINTAINER-DISAGREEMENT`
- `E-METH-PRESSURE-VS-DISPROOF`
- `E-METH-SIGNAL-ARCHITECTURE`
- `E-NARR-ARC`
- `E-NEWAGE-RITUAL-COMMUNITY`
- `E-NEWAGE-TRANSFORM`
- `E-PHIL-REVELATION-GAP`
- `E-PUBREV-CANON-GOVERNED-BOUNDARY`
- `E-PUBREV-COVENANT-HISTORY-PRINCIPLE`
- `E-PUBREV-ISRAEL-HISTORICAL-CARRIER`
- `E-PUBREV-PRIVATE-MYSTICISM-INSUFFICIENT`
- `E-PUBREV-PROPHECY-AS-PUBLIC-MARKER`
- `E-PUBREV-PUBLIC-TRAIL-PRINCIPLE`
- `E-PUBREV-SCRIPTURE-GOVERNED-MEMORY`
- `E-PUBREV-TEXTUAL-PRESERVATION-PUBLICNESS`
- `E-QURAN-TESTABILITY`
- `E-REV-DEISM-INCOMPLETENESS`
- `E-REV-HIDDENNESS-NONCOERCIVE-DISCLOSURE`
- `E-REV-MEDIATION`
- `E-REV-MORAL-GOD-NON-SILENCE`
- `E-REV-PERSONAL-GOD-COMMUNICATION`
- `E-REV-TESTABLE`
- `E-SAGE-JEWISH-WISDOM-CONTINUITY`
- `E-SCR-LUKE-24-44`
- `E-SCR-ZECH11-THIRTY-SILVER-POTTER`
- `E-SCR-ZECH12-PIERCED-ONE`
- `E-SCR-ZECH9-HUMBLE-KING-DONKEY`
- `E-SIM-COMPUTABILITY`
- `E-TAWHID-COHERENCE`
- `E-UNIT-2`
- `E-UNREASONABLE-MATH`
- `EV-000340`
- `EV-000423`
- `EV-1COR-15-3-7`
- `EV-DAN-9-24-27`
- `EV-ERC-1COR15`
- `EV-ISA-53`
- `EV-MIC-5-2`

## 1 Corinthians 15 / Early Creed Rows Found

- `E-1COR15-CREED`
- `E-ALT-CONSP-1`
- `E-ALT-IMPOST-1`
- `E-ALT-LEGEND-1`
- `E-ALT-SPIR-1`
- `E-ANS-BODY-RELOCATION-PUBLIC-CONSTRAINTS`
- `E-ANS-COGNITIVE-DISSONANCE-BODILY-SHAPE`
- `E-ANS-HALLUCINATION-APPEARANCE-DIVERSITY`
- `E-ANS-ISLAM-CRUCIFIXION-EARLY-ATTESTATION`
- `E-ANS-MYTHIC-PARALLELS-JEWISH-RESURRECTION-SPECIFICITY`
- `E-ANS-SPIRITUAL-ONLY-BODILY-RESURRECTION`
- `E-HIST-1COR15-WITNESS-STRUCTURE-CONTEXT`
- `E-HIST-ACTS-KERYGMA-LORD-CHRIST`
- `E-HIST-BODILY-RESURRECTION-ORIGIN`
- `E-HIST-EMPTY-TOMB-WOMEN-WITNESSES`
- `E-HIST-GALATIANS-JERUSALEM-PILLARS`
- `E-HIST-JAMES-CONVERSION`
- `E-HIST-JERUSALEM-LOCALE`
- `E-HIST-ORAL-TRADITION`
- `E-HIST-PAUL-CONVERSION`
- `E-MARTYRDOM-DISPOSITION`
- `E-PUBREV-PUBLIC-TRAIL-PRINCIPLE`
- `EV-000340`
- `EV-1COR-15-3-7`
- `EV-ERC-1COR15`

## Top 30 Recommended Rows For Future Hardening

| evidence_id | title | largest_abs_hypothesis | largest_abs_log10BF | total_abs_log10BF | citations |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EV-ERC-1COR15 | Early Resurrection Creed (1 Cor 15:3-7) | H-RESURRECTION | 0.55 | 2.25 | 10 |
| E-FINETUNE-PHYSICAL-CONSTANTS-LAWS | Fine-tuning of physical constants and laws for life | H-GOD | 0.35 | 0.7 | 4 |
| E-OOL | Origin of life information hurdle | H-GOD | 0.25 | 0.5 | 4 |
| E-HIST-EXT-ATTEST | Non-Christian Writers on Jesus and the Early Movement | H-ALT-LEGEND | 0.25 | 0.48 | 8 |
| E-COSMO-BEGINNING-LOW-ENTROPY | Cosmic beginning and low-entropy initial condition | H-GOD | 0.25 | 0.45 | 4 |
| E-LOW-ENTROPY-PAST | Low-entropy past (arrow of time) | H-GOD | 0.25 | 0.45 | 2 |
| E-OT-DISTRIBUTED-REVELATION | Distributed revelation across centuries & authors | H-GOD-OT | 0.25 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-CC-SMALLNESS | The smallness of the cosmological constant | H-DEISM | 0.2 | 0.4 | 2 |
| E-HOYLE-RESONANCE-C12 | Hoyle resonance in carbon-12 (triple-alpha) | H-GOD | 0.2 | 0.35 | 2 |
| E-QURAN-TESTABILITY | Islam — public claims and historical testability | H-ISLAM | 0.2 | 0.2 | 4 |
| E-MESSIAH-ND-4 | Historical non-fulfillment claims (temple, peace, ingathering) | H-JUDAISM | 0.18 | 0.42 | 2 |
| E-HIST-EMPTY-TOMB-WOMEN-WITNESSES | Empty Tomb / Women Witnesses — Reports of women discovering the empty tomb | H-RESURRECTION | 0.16 | 0.36 | 10 |
| E-ALT-HALL-2 | Hallucination + Cognitive Dissonance as an Alternative | H-ALT-HALLUCINATION | 0.15 | 0.3 | 5 |
| E-BARYON-PHOTON-RATIO | Baryon-to-photon ratio (η) life-permitting band | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-FINE-STRUCTURE-ALPHA | Fine-structure constant (α) sensitivity | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-OXYGEN-CARBON-RATIO | Oxygen-to-carbon ratio sensitivity | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-SEMANTIC-FUNCTIONAL-INFO | Semantic information and function in biology | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-STRONG-CP-THETA | Strong CP problem: tiny θ in QCD | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-TELEO-BIO-CONSTRAINTS | Teleology-like constraints in biology | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-ISLAM-RING-COMPOSITION | Islam — ring composition and rhetorical structure in Qur’anic sūrahs | H-ISLAM | 0.15 | 0.15 | 4 |
| E-LOW-INITIAL-ENTROPY | Low initial entropy (Past Hypothesis) | H-GOD | 0.15 | 0.15 | 2 |
| E-TAWHID-COHERENCE | Islam — tawḥīd (strict monotheism) coherence | H-ISLAM | 0.15 | 0.15 | 3 |
| E-BURIAL-JOSEPH | Burial by Joseph of Arimathea — named, falsifiable context in Jerusalem | H-RESURRECTION | 0.12 | 0.27999999999999997 | 2 |
| E-CONVERGENCE-EVO | Convergent evolution — attractor landscapes and repeated solutions | H-GOD | 0.12 | 0.27 | 5 |
| EV-ISA-53 | Isaiah 53 — The Suffering Servant | H-CHRIST-IDENTITY | 0.12 | 0.22 | 7 |
| E-SIM-ARG | Simulation argument (Bostrom) — trilemma & priors | H-IDEALISM | 0.12 | 0.18 | 1 |
| E-MERNEPTAH-STELE | Merneptah Stele: “Israel” in Canaan (c. 1208 BCE) | H-GOD-OT | 0.12 | 0.12 | 2 |
| E-PROPHET-ONLY-SYNOPTIC-RESTRAINT | Synoptic restraint passages used in non-divine readings | H-CHRIST-AS-LOGOS | 0.11 | 0.33 | 3 |
| E-EAAN-PLANTINGA | Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN) | H-GOD | 0.1 | 0.25 | 2 |
| E-GOD-RELATIONAL | Personal God — mind, will, and covenantal relation | H-GOD-RELATIONAL | 0.1 | 0.24000000000000002 | 5 |

## Known Limitations

- The source index preserves structured fields but does not invent author/year/publisher details for old raw strings.
- Citation roles are only official where encoded on the row or stated in row notes; diagnostic recommendations remain report-only.
- Top load-bearing row selection uses current absolute log10BF magnitude; it does not imply those rows are badly sourced.
- Some row titles or articles still contain legacy encoding artifacts that should be handled in a separate text-cleanup pass.

## Next Steps

1. Harden the top 30 rows by replacing raw strings with structured objects only where publication details are verified.
2. Add claim-level `claim_supported` language for each citation rather than row-level source blobs.
3. Use `critical_pressure` for skeptical or rival sources so AI auditors do not treat them as direct positive support.
4. Keep raw string compatibility until the full corpus has been migrated and validated.
