Run: 2026-04-25-01KQ2FAR78R7GED9RBBAE5GSR0

Run Details

Model:: DeepSeek V4 Pro
Test:: Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)
Scenario:: Short text (~524 words), small codex (11 entries)
Duration:: 29.7s
Cost:: $0.001197
Provider:: DeepSeek

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Correct "no violations" response	(details)
25.00%	No hallucinated violations	(details)
12.5000%	Overall

Model input

System

You are a meticulous continuity editor for a fiction project. You have access to a "story bible" (codex) containing canonical details about characters, locations, items, lore, and organizations.

Your task: Given the codex and a prose text, identify every factual inconsistency between the text and the codex. A violation is any detail in the text that contradicts what the codex states — wrong eye color, wrong location name, wrong ruler, swapped left/right, incorrect dates, etc.

Be thorough. Check every named entity, physical description, location detail, date, title, and relationship mentioned in the text against the codex. Do not flag stylistic choices, omissions, or things not covered by the codex — only flag direct contradictions.

For each violation found, output an XML element with the following attributes:
- entry: the codex entry ID that is contradicted
- detail: which specific detail is wrong — use the exact name of the codex element or attribute that is contradicted (e.g. "eyeColor", "species", "ruler", "material")
- paragraph: the 1-indexed paragraph number containing the violation
- substring: the exact substring from the text that contains the violation

The element body should contain a brief explanation of the contradiction.

Example format:
<violation entry="1234" detail="hairColor" paragraph="2" substring="her brown hair flowing">The text says brown hair, but the codex says blonde.</violation>

If you find no violations, output: <violations-none/>

Output ONLY the violation XML elements. Do not include any other text, preamble, or explanation outside the XML.

User/Human

<codex>
<character id="100" name="Torben Reikhart" aliases="Stray">
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <eyeColor>Green</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Silver</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="101" name="Sable Dunmore">
  <species>Human</species>
  <gender>Female</gender>
  <age>28</age>
  <eyeColor>Brown</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Auburn</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="102" name="Old Rivka">
  <gender>Female</gender>
</character>

<character id="103" name="Petal Dunmore">
  <gender>Female</gender>
</character>

<character id="104" name="Jurren Dunmore">
  <gender>Male</gender>
</character>

<location id="105" name="The Rusty Lantern"/>

<location id="106" name="Dunmore">
  <terrain>Coastal</terrain>
</location>

<item id="107" name="Kindling">
  <material>Dark iron</material>
  <objectType>Weapon</objectType>
  <power>Fire</power>
</item>

<item id="108" name="Petal's Locket">
  <material>Silver</material>
  <objectType>Jewelry</objectType>
</item>

<lore id="109" name="The Felling">
  <timePeriod>Two centuries ago</timePeriod>
  <category>War</category>
</lore>

<lore id="110" name="The Kindling Rite">
  <category>Tradition</category>
</lore>
</codex>

<text>
The Rusty Lantern sat crooked on its foundations, listing toward the harbor like a drunk leaning on a post. Salt had eaten into the planks years ago and no one had bothered to replace them. The ceiling beams were black with smoke. Behind the bar, Old Rivka wiped the same glass she'd been wiping for the last quarter hour, watching the door with the patience of someone who had outlived most of her regulars.

The door opened and a man stepped through, shaking rain from his silver hair. Water dripped from his coat onto the warped floorboards and pooled in the grooves between planks. His green eyes swept the room — the fishermen hunched over their cups, the candle guttering in its sconce, the woman sitting alone at the corner table. He smelled of wet wool and the cold air off the harbor. Old Rivka raised her chin. "Stray," she called across the room. "Didn't think you'd show." He didn't answer. He crossed to the corner table, his boots leaving damp prints on the wood, and sat down across from the woman waiting there.

Sable Dunmore was twenty-eight years old, human, and tired of waiting. Auburn hair fell past her shoulders, pushed back from brown eyes that tracked Torben Reikhart as he settled into the chair opposite her. On the table between them lay a sword — Kindling, she called it. A dark iron blade, the metal faintly warm even in the chill of the tavern. If you watched closely you could see it: the barest shimmer of fire running along the edge, thin as a hair. At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud. "It still has her hair inside," she said, touching it once. "That's all I have left of her."

Torben waited. He'd learned when to be quiet.

"My sister Petal," Sable said. "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore. You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago. Jurren — our father — he told me to take Petal and run. I did. She didn't make it."

Torben didn't ask the obvious question. Twenty-eight years old and human, but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it. The locket at her throat gave a single, faint pulse — a glow so brief he might have imagined it — and then was still.

Sable's hand moved to the locket again. "We couldn't give her a Kindling Rite. You know the tradition? You burn the dead with what they loved. Their tools. Their letters. You give it all to the fire so they carry it onward. But there was no body to burn. Nothing left of her but this locket and whatever I can remember." She looked at Torben. "Dunmore — port village on the salt cliffs — there's nothing left of that either. Just rock and old foundations."

Torben said, "Then we'd better make it count."

Sable picked up Kindling and sheathed it. They left the Rusty Lantern without another word. The rain had stopped. The air outside was sharp and clean, carrying the smell of salt and wet stone from the harbor. Somewhere down the waterfront a shutter banged in the wind. Old Rivka set the glass down, held it up to the dim light for a moment as if checking her own reflection, then reached for another.
</text>

Identify all factual violations in the text above that contradict the codex.

Model response

<violation entry="100" detail="hairColor" paragraph="2" substring="silver hair">The text says Torben Reikhart has silver hair, which matches the codex. No violation.</violation>

Wait, let me re-evaluate properly:

Checking all details:

- Torben Reikhart (100): gender male, eyeColor green, hairColor silver. In text: "silver hair", "green eyes" - matches.
- Sable Dunmore (101): species human, gender female, age 28, eyeColor brown, hairColor auburn. In text: "twenty-eight years old, human", "Auburn hair", "brown eyes" - matches.
- Old Rivka (102): gender female - matches.
- Petal Dunmore (103): gender female - matches.
- Jurren Dunmore (104): gender male - matches.
- The Rusty Lantern (105): location - matches.
- Dunmore (106): terrain coastal. In text: "port village on the salt cliffs" and "along the coast" - matches.
- Kindling (107): material dark iron, objectType weapon, power fire. In text: "dark iron blade", "shimmer of fire" - matches.
- Petal's Locket (108): material silver, objectType jewelry. In text: "silver locket" - matches.
- The Felling (109): timePeriod two centuries ago, category war. In text: "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago" - matches. However, Sable is 28 and speaks of The Felling as if she experienced it, but that's not a contradiction of any codex fact about the event itself; the codex doesn't say Sable wasn't alive then. No violation.
- The Kindling Rite (110): category tradition. In text described as a tradition - matches.

Wait — "Petal's Locket" — the codex says material is silver. The text says "a silver locket" and calls it "Petal's Locket". No violation.

Double-check: "Petal's Locket" is item 108. The text says "At her neck hung a silver locket. Petal's Locket, though she never called it that aloud." The codex material is silver. The text says silver. No contradiction.

Is there any mismatch? Let's scan again: "Jurren — our father" — Jurren is male, correct. "My sister Petal" — Petal is female, correct. "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." The Felling is two centuries ago, but Sable is 28. The codex doesn't say The Felling happened exactly 200 years before the present; it says "Two centuries ago" as a time period. That could be a rough approximation. But Sable saying she was there is odd, yet the codex doesn't state her birth year or that The Felling is precisely 200 years ago to the day. However, the lore entry says "timePeriod: Two centuries ago" which is a fixed canonical statement. If Sable is 28, she can't have been alive two centuries ago. This is a contradiction: the text implies Sable experienced The Felling, but the codex says it occurred two centuries ago, making it impossible for a 28-year-old to have been there. But is there an explicit statement in the text that she experienced it? She says "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." This directly states that Petal (her sister) was 14 at the time, implying Sable was also alive and present. Since Sable is 28 now, Petal can't have been 14 two centuries ago unless there's time travel or other lore, but the codex doesn't mention any. This is a clear contradiction with the lore entry's timePeriod.

Thus:
- The Felling timePeriod is "Two centuries ago" (200 years).
- Text paragraph 5: "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore." This places The Felling at a time when Sable and Petal were alive. Sable is 28 now, so The Felling would have to be within the last ~28 years, not two centuries ago.

That is a violation.

Also, "Petal's Locket" — the codex material is silver. Text says silver, no issue.

Check "Old Rivka": no codex species or other details to contradict.

So the violation is the temporal contradiction regarding The Felling.

Which paragraph? The statement is in paragraph 5: "My sister Petal," Sable said. "She was fourteen when The Felling reached Dunmore. You know what that was — the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago."

The substring that contradicts is "two centuries ago" right next to the statement that Petal was 14 when it happened. The detail contradicted is "timePeriod".

Thus:
<violation entry="109" detail="timePeriod" paragraph="5" substring="two centuries ago">The text says The Felling occurred two centuries ago, but also states Sable's sister Petal was 14 when it reached Dunmore; Sable is 28, making it impossible for the war to be two centuries in the past.</violation>

But also the phrase "the war that broke everything along the coast two centuries ago" itself states the time period, but the contradiction arises because the narrative places characters alive during it. The violation is that the text asserts both that (a) Petal was there at age 14, and (b) it was two centuries ago, while Sable is only 28. So the codex timePeriod is directly contradicted by the story's timeline.

I'll output that single violation.<violation entry="109" detail="timePeriod" paragraph="5" substring="two centuries ago">The text states The Felling occurred two centuries ago, but Sable's age (28) and her account of her sister Petal being 14 at the time make it impossible for the war to have taken place two centuries in the past.</violation>

Evaluation details

Result

Evaluator

Details

Meta Data

0.00%

Correct "no violations" response

Response should contain <violations-none/> or equivalent phrasing

hasViolationTags	true
hasViolationsNoneTag	false
matchedPhrase	(null)

25.00%

No hallucinated violations

Response must not contain any <violation> tags

hasViolationTags	true
responseLength	5205
violationCount	3

12.5000%