{
  "_about": "An evidence unit RECORDS: who asserted what, about which referents, under which qualifications, at which location. It adds nothing the transcript does not contain; it only restructures. 'evidence' here means evidence THAT THIS WAS SAID, not evidence that it is true. Reliability lives in the modality fields, not in the claim text.",
  "_field_guide": {
    "claim": "Faithful restatement, written so it stands alone (referents resolved, qualifications included). Never smoother or more certain than the original.",
    "claim_type": "One of: role | practice | quantity | event | explanation | hypothesis | preference | requirement | constraint | decision | consequence | attempt | interest | authority | commitment | proposed_action | correction | open_question",
    "modality.source_of_knowledge": "firsthand | secondhand | speaker_inference | unclear  - how the speaker knows this",
    "modality.stance": "asserts | hedges | guesses | denies | corrects  - how firmly it is put",
    "modality.temporal": "past | ongoing | planned | hypothetical | conditional  - when it applies",
    "modality.scope": "this_person | this_team | this_org | other_party | general  - who it is about",
    "conditions": "Qualifications that change the meaning. Kept INSIDE the unit so they cannot be lost.",
    "spans": "Exact locations. May cover several turns and both speakers (a Q/A exchange).",
    "verbatim": "Short exact quotes. Each must be a substring of the cited spans - this is checked programmatically (see validate.py).",
    "elicited_by": "The interviewer question that produced this. 'leading' flags framing the answer may have inherited.",
    "flags": "Extractor's own warnings: ambiguity, unspecified thresholds, superseded claims, etc.",
    "status": "active | superseded  - superseded units are kept, never deleted; see relations.json for what replaced them."
  },
  "transcript_id": "tx_001",
  "units": [
    {
      "id": "ev_001",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_spk1",
        "ref_reporting_team"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 leads the reporting team within operations.",
      "claim_type": "role",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_person"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 2,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "I lead the reporting team in operations."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 1,
        "sentence": 1,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_002",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_reporting_team"
      ],
      "claim": "The reporting team consists of three people plus spk_1 (four total).",
      "claim_type": "quantity",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 4,
        "unit": "people",
        "note": "3 analysts + lead"
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 2,
          "sentences": [
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "There are three of us, plus me."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 1,
        "sentence": 1,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "'three of us' read as three analysts excluding the speaker; consistent with turn 4 'three analysts'"
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_003",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_reporting_team",
        "ref_weekly_report",
        "ref_regional_directors"
      ],
      "claim": "The reporting team produces a weekly performance report whose audience is the regional directors.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 2,
          "sentences": [
            3
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "We produce the weekly performance report that goes to the regional directors."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 1,
        "sentence": 1,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_004",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_report_prep",
        "ref_reporting_team"
      ],
      "claim": "Three analysts prepare the weekly report by combining exports, every Friday.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 1,
        "unit": "occurrence",
        "per": "week",
        "note": "Fridays"
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 4,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "Three analysts combine the exports every Friday."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 3,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_005",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_report_prep"
      ],
      "claim": "Preparing the weekly report takes about six hours per week of effort across the whole team - not six hours per analyst.",
      "claim_type": "quantity",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 6,
        "unit": "hours",
        "per": "week",
        "scope": "team",
        "approximate": true
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "scope is across the team, established only by the interviewer's clarifying question in turn 5"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 4,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        },
        {
          "turn": 5,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        },
        {
          "turn": 6,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "It takes about six hours.",
        "Across the team."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 3,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Unit spans a Q/A exchange: turn 4 alone is ambiguous; turn 6 s0 alone is meaningless."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_006",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_report_prep"
      ],
      "claim": "At month-end, preparing the report takes closer to ten hours (team-wide).",
      "claim_type": "quantity",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 10,
        "unit": "hours",
        "per": "week",
        "scope": "team",
        "approximate": true
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "only at month-end"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 6,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "At month-end it is closer to ten hours."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 5,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Team scope inherited from ev_005 by context; not restated in this sentence."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_007",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_report_prep",
        "ref_warehouse_system",
        "ref_fleet_tracker"
      ],
      "claim": "The exports used for the report come mostly from the warehouse system and the fleet tracker.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "'mostly' - the list is not presented as exhaustive"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 8,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "Mostly from the warehouse system and the fleet tracker."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 7,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_008",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_finance_spreadsheet",
        "ref_priya",
        "ref_report_prep"
      ],
      "claim": "A spreadsheet maintained by the finance side is also an input to the report. spk_1 does not work with it directly; Priya (on spk_1's team) handles it, and spk_1's knowledge of it is limited to what Priya reports.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "secondhand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "speaker explicitly disclaims direct knowledge of this input"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 8,
          "sentences": [
            1,
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "I don't touch that one myself.",
        "I only know what she tells me about it."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 7,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Any later detail about the finance spreadsheet from spk_1 should inherit 'secondhand'."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_009",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_column_drift"
      ],
      "claim": "Column names change between exports.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 10,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "The column names change between exports."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 9,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Which exports (warehouse, fleet, both) is not specified."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_010",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_column_drift",
        "ref_warehouse_system"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 guesses that the column changes are caused by someone on the warehouse side editing the report template, and explicitly labels this a guess.",
      "claim_type": "hypothesis",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "speaker_inference",
        "stance": "guesses",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "other_party"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "explicitly marked as speculation by the speaker"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 10,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "I think it's because",
        "that's just my guess"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 9,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Must NOT be recorded as the cause of column drift. It is a reported hypothesis."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_011",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_manual_remap",
        "ref_column_drift",
        "ref_report_prep"
      ],
      "claim": "Every week, someone on the team remaps the columns by hand before the merge step will work.",
      "claim_type": "practice",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 1,
        "unit": "occurrence",
        "per": "week"
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 10,
          "sentences": [
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "every week someone has to remap the columns by hand before the merge works"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 9,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Offered as the answer to 'what makes it take six hours' - but the speaker never says remapping accounts for all six hours."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_012",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_remap_script",
        "ref_reporting_team"
      ],
      "claim": "The team tried a script last year to automate the column remapping.",
      "claim_type": "attempt",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "past",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 12,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "We tried a script last year."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 11,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "'last year' relative to recording date 2026-09-14 -> 2025, approximately."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_013",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_remap_script",
        "ref_fleet_tracker"
      ],
      "claim": "The script worked for small files but failed on the fleet export once the file exceeded some size; the threshold was not stated.",
      "claim_type": "consequence",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "past",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "only worked for small files",
        "failure specific to the fleet export",
        "size threshold unspecified"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 12,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "It worked for the small files but choked on the fleet export once it got over a certain size"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 11,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Threshold unknown - follow-up question candidate."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_014",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_remap_script",
        "ref_report_prep"
      ],
      "claim": "The team abandoned the script and returned to manual remapping.",
      "claim_type": "decision",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "past",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 12,
          "sentences": [
            1,
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "so we dropped it",
        "We went back to doing it manually."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 11,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_015",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_report_prep",
        "ref_manual_remap"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 rejects the interviewer's characterisation of the manual process as 'painful'; describes it as tedious and explicitly not the worst part of the week.",
      "claim_type": "preference",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "corrects",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_person"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 13,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        },
        {
          "turn": 14,
          "sentences": [
            0,
            1,
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "Painful is strong.",
        "It's tedious.",
        "It's not the worst part of the week."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 13,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": true
      },
      "flags": [
        "Speaker pushed back on a leading question - this is a strong signal precisely because it goes against the framing offered.",
        "'not the worst part of the week' implies other, worse parts exist; never probed."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_016",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_lateness",
        "ref_regional_directors",
        "ref_weekly_report"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 states the bigger issue is that when the report is late, the regional directors make decisions using the previous week's numbers.",
      "claim_type": "consequence",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "unclear",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "other_party"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "when the report is late"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 14,
          "sentences": [
            3
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "when the report is late, the directors make decisions on last week's numbers"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 13,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": true
      },
      "flags": [
        "Describes third-party behaviour (directors). The speaker's basis for knowing this is not stated - observed? told? assumed? Recorded as 'unclear' rather than firsthand.",
        "Speaker ranks this above the effort cost. Priority signal."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_017",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_lateness"
      ],
      "claim": "The report is late roughly once a month. [SUPERSEDED in the same turn - see ev_018, ev_019]",
      "claim_type": "quantity",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 1,
        "unit": "occurrence",
        "per": "month",
        "approximate": true
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "hedges",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 16,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "Maybe once a month?"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 15,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "Kept so the correction is inspectable. Do not use as a current-state figure."
      ],
      "status": "superseded"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_018",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_lateness",
        "ref_cutoff_policy",
        "ref_weekly_report"
      ],
      "claim": "Since a policy change in the spring, there is a hard Friday 3 p.m. cutoff; the report is no longer late, but instead goes out with gaps.",
      "claim_type": "correction",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "corrects",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "since the spring policy change"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 16,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "let me correct that",
        "a hard Friday 3 p.m. cutoff",
        "it just goes out with gaps"
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 15,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [
        "'spring' relative to 2026-09-14 -> roughly Mar-May 2026.",
        "What 'gaps' means (missing sections? missing sources?) is not specified.",
        "Lateness has been converted into incompleteness, not eliminated."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_019",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_lateness",
        "ref_cutoff_policy"
      ],
      "claim": "Before the spring policy change, the report was late roughly once a month.",
      "claim_type": "quantity",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 1,
        "unit": "occurrence",
        "per": "month",
        "approximate": true
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "hedges",
        "temporal": "past",
        "scope": "this_team"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "before the spring policy change only"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 16,
          "sentences": [
            2
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "Before that it would be late maybe once a month."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 15,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
      },
      "flags": [],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_020",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_remap_tool",
        "ref_spk1"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 expresses interest in looking at a hypothetical tool that handles column remapping automatically.",
      "claim_type": "interest",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "hypothetical",
        "scope": "this_person"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "response to an interviewer-proposed hypothetical",
        "'interested in looking at' - not a statement of intent to buy"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 17,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        },
        {
          "turn": 18,
          "sentences": [
            0
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "I'd definitely be interested in looking at it."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 17,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": true
      },
      "flags": [
        "Interviewer asked 'would you buy'; speaker answered with interest, not purchase. The gap is the signal."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_021",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_tool_budget",
        "ref_spk1"
      ],
      "claim": "spk_1 can approve tool purchases up to about 5,000 per year on their own authority.",
      "claim_type": "authority",
      "quantity": {
        "value": 5000,
        "unit": "currency",
        "per": "year",
        "approximate": true,
        "currency": "unspecified"
      },
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_person"
      },
      "conditions": [],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 18,
          "sentences": [
            1
          ]
        }
      ],
      "verbatim": [
        "I can approve tools up to about five thousand a year on my own."
      ],
      "elicited_by": {
        "turn": 17,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": true
      },
      "flags": [
        "Currency not stated."
      ],
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "ev_022",
      "speaker": "spk_1",
      "referents": [
        "ref_tool_budget",
        "ref_speaker_director"
      ],
      "claim": "Tool purchases above roughly 5,000/year require approval from spk_1's director.",
      "claim_type": "constraint",
      "modality": {
        "source_of_knowledge": "firsthand",
        "stance": "asserts",
        "temporal": "ongoing",
        "scope": "this_org"
      },
      "conditions": [
        "above the ~5k threshold"
      ],
      "spans": [
        {
          "turn": 18,
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        }
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            2
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        }
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          "turn": 19,
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            0
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          "turn": 20,
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            0,
            1
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        "If it connects to the warehouse system, yes.",
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        "ref_security_review"
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        "those take a while",
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        "turn": 19,
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        {
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            0
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          "turn": 22,
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            0
          ]
        }
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        "turn": 21,
        "sentence": 0,
        "leading": false
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            2
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        }
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        "turn": 23,
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        "leading": false
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        "turn": 23,
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        "leading": false
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