Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Prevent stale or contradicted profile knowledge from retaining unexamined authority.
- Meaningful outcome
- The dispute is resolved into an explicit retained, corrected, split, superseded, or deprecated state.
- Boundaries — includes
- dispute evidence, owner review, decision options, version creation, supersession, and rationale.
- Boundaries — excludes
- contradiction detection, notification delivery, general proposal handling, and silent automated correction.
- Terms and concepts
- A
dispute marks unresolved authority; it is not merely low confidence.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Resolve a dispute
- Actor
- The profile subject or explicitly authorized human authority.
- Command / intent
- Decide how a disputed assertion should be treated.
- Current state
- A disputed assertion, its versions, and relevant evidence are available.
- Policies / invariants
- An AI process cannot silently clear the dispute; evidence remains linked; the resolution creates a new version; prior assertions are not erased.
- Transition
- Review evidence, choose a disposition, record rationale and authority, and create the resulting version/linkage.
- Result
- Confirmed original, accepted correction, split assertions, deprecation, or an explicitly unresolved dispute.
- Events / effects
- Current-state and retrieval projections are updated according to the disposition.
- Unknowns
- Delegated human resolution rules beyond the profile subject are not established.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Every material resolution is versioned and attributable.
Recommended defaults
- Keep the assertion disputed when available evidence does not support a responsible resolution.
Unknown / unresolved
- Public operational realization is not confirmed.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Disputes require owner resolution and versioned outcomes. | rule/invariant | sourced | K11. |