Retrieval
What happens after the page is read: how it is split, ranked and chosen, and which passage a system ends up quoting.
- 9 published entries
- B6 grade B
- C3 grade C
- earliest re-check due 2027-06
A grade describes where an entry's sources come from, not how likely a change is to work. How grades are used
- Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-140
Chunking: structure and context matter more than size
Re-check due 2027-06 - Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-144
Cross encoder reranking
Re-check due 2027-09 - Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-146
Enough context for a passage to answer the question
Re-check due 2027-09 - Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-138
Hybrid lexical dense
Re-check due 2027-06 - Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-139
Lost in the middle
Re-check due 2027-09 - Bpeer-reviewed or a large controlled studyR-142
Specific numbers, dates and conditions in answer passages
Re-check due 2027-09 - Creputable industry data or observationR-141
Entity explicitness
Re-check due 2027-06 - Creputable industry data or observationR-145
Markdown and tables
Re-check due 2027-06 - Creputable industry data or observationR-143
Repeated passages and ambiguous answer ownership
Re-check due 2027-06
Other topics
- Access and crawlers18
- Agent readiness27
- Answer engines25
- Commercial12
- Content11
- Entities8
- Languages and regions7
- Measurement10
- Performance13
- Policies13
- Technical29
- Trust and provenance5
Every entry is searchable together in the full knowledge base. Vercatus plays cite entries by id. How the base is curated.