Provenance and evidence state
Registry
The Registry is not another findings list. It is the audit layer underneath the public research catalog: where a result came from, what it can support, and how older public objects were reconciled.
What the Registry Preserves
Source artifacts
The datasets, scripts, result files, and audits that an outcome rests on.
Rule: A public label is generic; operational paths and private hashes stay internal.
Lifecycle links
The exact question, test, outcome, claim, and novelty-review relationships.
Rule: Every public finding must trace backward without a dangling reference.
Claim boundaries
The strongest statement each result is allowed to support.
Rule: A result cannot silently grow into a mechanism or universal conclusion.
Predecessor mapping
Where every retired claim, experiment, discovery lead, and question went.
Rule: Older objects are merged, downgraded, archived, or redirected—not silently erased.
Why the old totals disappeared
Earlier pages mixed extraction rows, exploratory patterns, claims, and questions into competing totals. Those counts described stored material, not equal-strength scientific results. The current catalog counts lifecycle objects and keeps their evidence states separate.