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technique
Grounding
Grounding ties a model's output to verifiable external sources — retrieved documents, tool results, live data — often with citation contracts that let a user check each claim.
- Category
- technique
- Difficulty
- Not classified
- Aliases
- None tracked
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-02
Key facts
- It reduces unsupported statements and enables verification, but does not guarantee factual accuracy: the model can still misread, misattribute, or over-extend a cited source.