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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.

Models Mentioning Grounding(12)