Authority page
Evidence methodology
How entities move from discovery to public indexability.
Discovery → normalization → evidence → verification → publication → indexability.
A verified entity requires at least one valid primary-authority evidence snapshot with retrieval time and SHA-256. Field-level claims can remain unknown.
This page is a short summary kept for URL continuity. For what a receipt actually contains, how it's hashed, and how the fail-closed gate uses it, see the fuller evidence methodology page below.