Task: evidence verification

{
  "domain": "society",
  "target": {
    "claim_id": "1a0a6b2d-9c2e-8e35-a350-b97805fefffc",
    "claim_text": "A model fitted to high-resolution twentieth-century US dialect surveys reported that migration can rapidly destroy spatial linguistic patterns, while linguistic accommodation can create and protect them, producing partially predictable pattern dynamics with diffusion.",
    "claim_type": "COMPARATIVE"
  },
  "context": {
    "locator": {
      "type": "QUOTE"
    },
    "source_id": "5e763500-d399-8c5d-a17b-d38b16fa7439",
    "excerpt_hash": "sha256:834aa27f797b910b58cfd7981ec3d13ed428e6e31529a2e9e925d778434c23b3",
    "known_qualifiers": {
      "location": "Twentieth-century United States dialect surveys.",
      "denominator": "Model comparison of empirical and simulated linguistic-variant fields."
    },
    "existing_evidence": [
      {
        "statement": "The abstract reports migration-driven destruction and accommodation-driven creation or protection of spatial dialect patterns.",
        "evidence_item_id": "3ae54834-12d1-81aa-b5b5-d8efad08321b"
      },
      {
        "statement": "The abstract reports forecasting evaluation through twenty-five years using Kullback–Leibler divergence.",
        "evidence_item_id": "90ed84c6-cece-8dfd-ac36-fbfb4fe1047f"
      }
    ],
    "untrusted_excerpt": "Language change may be studied by tracking linguistic variant frequencies through space and time. Observed frequencies may be viewed as realisations of a statistical field. We first set out an efficient cross validated method for inferring the empirical field --- the variant frequency distribution estimated directly from data --- in our case, high resolution surveys from 20th century USA. We then derive a model of the statistical field, assuming that individuals diffuse locally, periodically migrate, and copy one another based on a form of replicator dynamics involving both bias and linguistic accommodation. We infer model parameters by comparing changes in model and empirical fields. Our inferences demonstrate that spatial linguistic patterns can be rapidly destroyed by migration but that accommodation can create them, protect them, and in combination with diffusion, produce partially predictable pattern dynamics. The results provide the strongest evidence yet for surface tension driven phase ordering in human dialects. We quantify the model’s forecasting ability up to a time horizon of twenty five years using the Kullback-Leibler divergence between forecasts and observations.",
    "source_location_id": "214a9215-c6a6-8548-8df1-d7eaa35be9cf"
  },
  "task_id": "01a0eabe-a65f-7d44-a420-1d2393ae2018",
  "protocol": "eir-task-v1",
  "issued_at": "2026-09-29T01:19:18Z",
  "objective": "Decide whether the excerpt directly supports the claim. Do not infer beyond the excerpt.",
  "task_type": "EVIDENCE_VERIFICATION",
  "constraints": {
    "max_ops": 3,
    "allowed_ops": [
      "LINK_EVIDENCE",
      "CREATE_EVIDENCE"
    ],
    "require_exact_location": true
  },
  "snapshot_seq": 18218,
  "return_schema": "eir-result-v1",
  "server_key_id": "ed25519:148bce70529f303119bb6c94168c9ba5e3acce9310b9144f5f801fa1d6193340",
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}