What the room caught.

Every claim, every redaction, every name disambiguated. The room shows its work.

847

Claims checked

112

Redactions performed

Disambiguation hits

23 / 1

Cleared / blocked

DISAMBIGUATION TRACE · ONE AMBIGUOUS SPAN, FOUR STEPS, ONE CLEARED SENTENCE

Disambiguation trace

One ambiguous span, four steps, one cleared sentence. The Layer’s reasoning is shown in full.

draft — A river town of 8,500 — Mount Pleasant, Iowa — has produced eight Olympians and Paralympians since 1976.

Step 1 — surface match
3 candidates found in athlete_registry on the token "Mount Pleasant".
Step 2 — context vector
Surrounding 50-char window tokens: [town, Iowa, population, school, since, 1976].
Step 3 — candidate ranking
0.91 place (Mount Pleasant, IA) · 0.06 [athlete:A] · 0.03 [athlete:B].
Step 4 — resolution
Place. No redaction required. Sentence cleared for publish.

cleared · "A river town of 8,500 — Mount Pleasant, Iowa — has produced eight Olympians and Paralympians since 1976."

Recent decisions

fixture

Eight Olympians and Paralympians from this town since 1976.
PASS
no surface matches; no near-identification; passed through
14:22:08
The town's newest Olympian came up through the same school …
PASS
place-level reference; no individual identification
14:22:14
Surface match on candidate token at offset 47; word-boundar…
REDACT
matched athlete registry entry; replaced with [redacted]
14:22:21
Mount Pleasant has produced a generation of Team USA athlet…
DISAMBIG.
ambiguous surname token in candidate set; resolved as place reference (Iowa town, not [athlete:A])
14:22:33
Three names appeared in the draft list — two were registere…
AGGREGATE
small-aggregate pattern (3 names, 2 in registry); rewrote as "three Olympians from this town"
14:22:41
"Sarah won bronze in Tokyo." — flagged for context check.
REDACT
common given name + sport context (won, bronze, Tokyo) within 50-char window
14:22:48
Sarah's Diner anchors the corner of Main and Second.
PASS
common given name without sport context; place-level usage preserved
14:22:55
A swimmer from Birmingham, age 19, qualified at the 2024 tr…
RETURN
near-identification: sport + hometown + year uniquely identifies an individual; draft returned to Storyteller
14:23:02
Substring inside a longer word; not a name boundary.
PASS
rejected on word-boundary discipline (3-char needle inside compound)
14:23:09
The wheelchair rugby pipeline runs through three Midwest cl…
PASS
program-level reference; no individual identification
14:23:17
Initial-pattern match: "M. [athlete:B]" inside a quoted sou…
REDACT
initial-pattern relief valve allowed short last-name match; redacted to [redacted]
14:23:24
An adaptive rowing program in Birmingham now feeds the nati…
PASS
no surface matches; near-id check returned empty; passed through
14:23:31