app.kiesel.facts.claimVerdict

{
  "key": "tid",
  "type": "record",
  "record": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "subject",
      "claimText",
      "verdict",
      "evidence",
      "verifiedAt"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "subject": {
        "ref": "com.atproto.repo.strongRef",
        "type": "ref",
        "description": "The atproto record the verdict is *about* (usually an app.bsky.feed.post). Constellation indexes this field, enabling 'which labelers have reviewed this post?' lookups."
      },
      "validAt": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "datetime",
        "description": "Optional 'as-of' date the verdict reflects — useful when citing a fact-check published earlier than verifiedAt. For example: a fact-check from 2020 cited today carries a validAt of 2020."
      },
      "verdict": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "The aggregated verdict. 'supported' = fact-checkers confirm the claim. 'refuted' = fact-checkers refute it. 'disputed' = fact-checkers disagree among themselves. 'mixed' = the claim is partially true. 'outdated' = was true when reviewed but no longer current. 'unknown' = reviewed but unresolved by the publisher.",
        "knownValues": [
          "supported",
          "refuted",
          "disputed",
          "mixed",
          "outdated",
          "unknown"
        ]
      },
      "evidence": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "ref": "#evidenceItem",
          "type": "ref"
        },
        "maxLength": 20,
        "minLength": 1,
        "description": "The fact-checks that informed the verdict. Each item either references an atproto claimReview record OR an external publisher URL (typical case today — most publishers don't yet write to atproto). At least one item is required: a verdict with no evidence is not a verdict."
      },
      "labelUri": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "at-uri",
        "description": "Optional at-uri of the com.atproto.label record this verdict corresponds to, when the labeler also publishes a signed label."
      },
      "claimText": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 2000,
        "minLength": 1,
        "description": "The atomic claim extracted from the subject, as the labeler interpreted it. The actual sentence on which the verdict was computed.",
        "maxGraphemes": 700
      },
      "rationale": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 1000,
        "description": "Short human-readable explanation of how the verdict was reached. Optional but recommended.",
        "maxGraphemes": 350
      },
      "confidence": {
        "type": "integer",
        "maximum": 1000,
        "minimum": 0,
        "description": "Aggregated confidence in the verdict, expressed as an integer in [0, 1000] (so 826 means 0.826). Stored as integer because the atproto data model intentionally excludes floats. Specific computation is labeler-internal; consumers should treat it as ordinal."
      },
      "supersedes": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "at-uri",
        "description": "Optional at-uri of an earlier claimVerdict by this labeler on the same subject. When set, signals 'this record replaces the older one'."
      },
      "verifiedAt": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "datetime",
        "description": "When the verdict was computed."
      },
      "emittedLabel": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Optional reference to a Bluesky label value this verdict caused the labeler to emit on subject (e.g. 'fact-supported', 'fact-refuted'). Reflects what consumers see on Bluesky's wire, complementing the structured verdict here."
      },
      "voteBreakdown": {
        "ref": "#voteBreakdown",
        "type": "ref",
        "description": "How the underlying judgements split. Useful for downstream consumers to apply stricter thresholds than the labeler did."
      },
      "decontextualizedText": {
        "type": "string",
        "maxLength": 2000,
        "description": "Standalone version of the claim — rewritten so the claim makes sense outside the original post's context. Used by the labeler internally to improve matching against ClaimReview entries that don't share the post's surrounding context.",
        "maxGraphemes": 700
      }
    }
  },
  "description": "A labeler's aggregated verdict on one specific atproto record (typically a Bluesky post). Each verdict represents the labeler's call given the evidence available at `verifiedAt`. Re-running the pipeline later may produce a superseding record; the most recent record for a given (labeler, subject) pair is authoritative."
}