Evidence Citation
Evidence citation is the practice of attaching verifiable source references to every claim an AI system makes. Each cited passage links back to the document, record, or knowledge asset it came from, so a person can confirm the answer is grounded before they trust or act on it.
Synonyms: citation, source attribution, evidence linking, answer provenance
Evidence citation is what makes a generated answer inspectable rather than a black box. Instead of presenting a conclusion alone, the system shows the specific passages that support it, each traceable to a managed knowledge asset. This serves two audiences: a person reviewing a high-stakes response can verify it in seconds, and an audit trail can later reconstruct exactly which evidence justified an action. Reliable citation depends on stable source identifiers and freshness metadata so a reference always resolves to the version that was actually used.