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When the assistant places a citation mark next to a span of generated text, it signals that the span was produced during a generation step where the referenced document chunk was loaded into the model’s context window. This gives a concrete provenance for the text. However, the presence of the citation does not imply that the chunk contains evidence that validates the claim, nor does it certify the factual correctness of the claim itself. Separate verification steps are required to assess whether the cited source truly backs the statement and whether the statement is accurate.