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E2 never populates claim valid-time from in-document timestamps #146

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Observed on the first scored LoCoMo run (conv-26, 19 sessions): all 135 claims have claim_valid_kind = 'unknown', no claim_valid_from, empty asserted_at — although every rendered turn carries an explicit timestamp ([D1:3 | 1:56 pm on 8 May, 2023] …).

Consequences:

  • entity_timeline for the main entity collapses to a single bucket keyed by ingestion year, which looks like data but is noise.
  • Every LoCoMo category-2 (temporal) question is structurally unanswerable, regardless of retrieval quality.

Suggested shape: E2 emits valid-time from in-document timestamps; an eval canary asserts "a dated source line yields a dated claim"; until populated, entity_timeline should return a typed negative with a reason rather than an ingestion-time histogram.

Found during RS-LoCoMo-Full-v3 trace forensics, 2026-07-26.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_01GKENhTLJg1HqhbdwCmmkbc

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