The fifteen problems · 04 of 15 · extraction
Inline markup clipped one assertion in five on BBC Amharic
751 of 766 assertions cite a span equal to exactly one HTML text node, and 166 cite a span shorter than the statement verbalized from it. The chunker never merged adjacent text nodes separated only by inline markup, and BBC Amharic wraps quoted words in span elements constantly.
Found while building the Amharic review bundle: 751 of 766 assertions cite a span equal to exactly one HTML text node, and 166 cite a span shorter than the statement verbalized from it. Worst case, a ten-character span carried a full-sentence statement.
The cause was located exactly. The chunker turned every HTML text node into one segment and never merged adjacent segments separated only by inline markup. BBC Amharic wraps quoted words in span elements constantly, which is why the rate was high on that source.
× What it broke
The honest-evidence property failed silently on roughly a fifth of the corpus. The 70 validator disputes from the extraction run were likely partly this artefact.
✓ What it established
A cheap acceptance check was proposed: assert the cited span is not shorter than the verbalized text. It would have caught this on the first run.
user-beadwork/onboarding/amharic-extractions/ · u--ra9.1 · 2026-08-03 (defect filed) · retrieved 2026-08-21
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