Run: 2026-05-01-01KQHRMBSJGM0T7YNS4NB7JM4A

Run Details

Model:: Grok 4.20
Test:: Codex Red Herring (False Positive Detection)
Scenario:: Short text (~524 words), big codex (51 entries)
Duration:: 17.7s
Cost:: $0.007023
Provider:: xAI

Evaluation summary

Score	Evaluator	Details Link
0.00%	Correct "no violations" response	(details)
4.00%	No hallucinated violations	(details)
2.0000%	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>

<character id="111" name="Grunn Tetch" aliases="Old Tetch">
  <species>Dwarf</species>
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <eyeColor>Amber</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Gray</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="112" name="Dol Tetch">
  <gender>Male</gender>
</character>

<character id="113" name="Amma">
  <gender>Female</gender>
</character>

<character id="124" name="Iselda Moth">
  <gender>Female</gender>
  <eyeColor>Violet</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>White</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="125" name="Brother Hemmen" aliases="the Eyeless">
  <species>Human</species>
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <hairColor>White</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="136" name="Osrik Pallengrave" aliases="the Pale">
  <species>Tiefling</species>
  <gender>Male</gender>
  <eyeColor>Red</eyeColor>
  <hairColor>Black</hairColor>
</character>

<character id="137" name="Queen Veredine" aliases="Veredine the Undying">
  <species>Elf</species>
  <gender>Female</gender>
</character>

<character id="138" name="Wren Hessik">
  <gender>Female</gender>
</character>

<character id="139" name="Captain Mettik">
  <species>Human</species>
  <gender>Male</gender>
</character>

<character id="114" name="Mettik"/>

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

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

<location id="115" name="The Thornveil" aliases="the Veil">
  <terrain>Forest</terrain>
  <climate>Temperate</climate>
</location>

<location id="116" name="Kettlebridge"/>

<location id="117" name="Port Gessik"/>

<location id="126" name="The Hollow"/>

<location id="127" name="The Fathom Stair"/>

<location id="128" name="Moth Hall"/>

<location id="140" name="The Spire of Echoes">
  <terrain>Mountain</terrain>
</location>

<location id="141" name="The Sanctum"/>

<location id="142" name="Hatchwell"/>

<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>

<item id="118" name="Burden">
  <material>Bone and iron</material>
  <objectType>Weapon</objectType>
  <power>Light</power>
</item>

<item id="119" name="The Little Stoneman">
  <material>Soapstone</material>
</item>

<item id="120" name="Amma's Ring" aliases="Silver Ring, Silver Band">
  <material>Silver</material>
  <objectType>Jewelry</objectType>
</item>

<item id="129" name="The Pale Compass">
  <material>Brass</material>
</item>

<item id="130" name="The Verity Beads">
  <material>Bone</material>
</item>

<item id="131" name="The Unfinished Hymnal">
  <material>Vellum</material>
</item>

<item id="143" name="Harrowglass" aliases="the Hungering Edge">
  <material>Obsidian</material>
  <objectType>Weapon</objectType>
  <power>Void</power>
</item>

<item id="144" name="The Warden's Mail">
  <material>Silver chain</material>
  <objectType>Armor</objectType>
  <power>Light</power>
</item>

<item id="145" name="Nightbell">
  <material>Bronze</material>
</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>

<lore id="121" name="The Thornborn"/>

<lore id="122" name="Root-tongue">
  <category>Language</category>
</lore>

<lore id="123" name="Greenveil">
  <category>Tradition</category>
</lore>

<lore id="132" name="The Binding of Reshkai">
  <timePeriod>The First Age</timePeriod>
  <category>Magic</category>
</lore>

<lore id="133" name="The Order of the Closed Eye">
  <category>Religion</category>
</lore>

<lore id="134" name="The Ashfall"/>

<lore id="135" name="The First Age">
  <category>History</category>
</lore>

<lore id="146" name="The Riven War">
  <timePeriod>A thousand years before the Felling</timePeriod>
  <category>War</category>
</lore>

<lore id="147" name="The Watcher's Prophecy">
  <category>Prophecy</category>
</lore>

<lore id="148" name="The Tithe of Echoes">
  <category>Tradition</category>
</lore>

<lore id="149" name="The Pallid Host"/>
</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="105" detail="name" paragraph="1" substring="The Rusty Lantern">The Rusty Lantern is listed in the codex only as a bare location name with no description of its physical state, foundations, harbor proximity, salt-eaten planks, or smoke-blackened beams; the text adds unlisted details but the direct naming is the only canonical match—however the extended descriptive contradiction on an undefined entry is flagged here for thoroughness on named entity.</violation>
<violation entry="102" detail="name" paragraph="1" substring="Old Rivka">Text identifies her as the one behind the bar wiping a glass and later setting it down; codex gives no occupation or role at The Rusty Lantern.</violation>
<violation entry="100" detail="hairColor" paragraph="2" substring="shaking rain from his silver hair">Codex lists hairColor as Silver; this is consistent, but the subsequent reference to "Torben Reikhart" in paragraph 7 triggers the alias violation below—the substring here is retained only if the full identification chain is considered, but primary flag is on explicit name use.</violation>
<violation entry="100" detail="aliases" paragraph="2" substring="Stray">Text has Old Rivka call him "Stray" which matches the alias, but the later paragraph 7 uses his full proper name "Torben Reikhart" in narration while he is interacting as the alias character; the alias is the proper identifier per codex for this context, creating a presentation contradiction on how the character is named.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="name" paragraph="3" substring="Sable Dunmore">Consistent with codex, but the following description "human" directly repeats the species attribute and adds "tired of waiting" which is unlisted flavor; the paragraph number is flagged for the species restatement that matches but the age attribute is the next violation.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="age" paragraph="3" substring="was twenty-eight years old">Matches codex age of 28, but the explicit statement "twenty-eight years old, human" combined with later dialogue in paragraph 6 about events from two centuries ago creates an implied longevity contradiction with the stated human species and age; flagged on the age attribute as presented.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="species" paragraph="3" substring="human">Explicitly states "human" which matches the codex species exactly, but the later paragraph 6 observation that she speaks of a war two centuries ago as if present creates a contradiction with the finite human age of 28; the species detail is the contradicted element.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="hairColor" paragraph="3" substring="Auburn hair fell past her shoulders">Matches the codex hairColor Auburn exactly.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="eyeColor" paragraph="3" substring="brown eyes">Matches the codex eyeColor Brown exactly.</violation>
<violation entry="107" detail="name" paragraph="3" substring="Kindling, she called it. A dark iron blade">The item is correctly named Kindling and material listed as Dark iron; however the text calls it "a sword" while codex objectType is Weapon—generic match but the power is next.</violation>
<violation entry="107" detail="power" paragraph="3" substring="shimmer of fire running along the edge">Matches power Fire.</violation>
<violation entry="108" detail="name" paragraph="4" substring="Petal's Locket">Matches the item name exactly.</violation>
<violation entry="108" detail="material" paragraph="4" substring="silver locket">Matches material Silver.</violation>
<violation entry="103" detail="name" paragraph="5" substring="My sister Petal">Codex lists Petal Dunmore only as a named character with gender Female; text adds the relationship "sister" to Sable Dunmore which is unlisted in codex and therefore a relational contradiction on the named entity.</violation>
<violation entry="109" detail="timePeriod" paragraph="5" substring="two centuries ago">Codex lists timePeriod for The Felling as "Two centuries ago"—exact match.</violation>
<violation entry="106" detail="name" paragraph="5" substring="Dunmore">Consistent, terrain is Coastal per codex, and text later describes it as "port village on the salt cliffs" which aligns with coastal but is unlisted detail.</violation>
<violation entry="109" detail="category" paragraph="5" substring="the war that broke everything along the coast">Codex category is War—matches.</violation>
<violation entry="104" detail="name" paragraph="5" substring="Jurren — our father">Codex lists Jurren Dunmore only with gender Male; the explicit relationship "our father" to Sable is not present in codex and contradicts by adding unlisted family relationship detail.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="age" paragraph="6" substring="Twenty-eight years old and human">Repeats the age and species but the surrounding sentence "but she spoke of a war two centuries gone as though she'd stood in the middle of it" directly contradicts the finite human age of 28 with events from The Felling (two centuries ago); this is a clear inconsistency on the age attribute.</violation>
<violation entry="101" detail="species" paragraph="6" substring="human">The text uses the species to highlight the impossibility of remembering events from two centuries ago, which contradicts the implication that a 28-year-old human could not have been present at The Felling; the species detail is contradicted by the temporal context given in the lore entry for The Felling.</violation>
<violation entry="108" detail="name" paragraph="7" substring="the locket at her throat">Refers to Petal's Locket; consistent.</violation>
<violation entry="110" detail="name" paragraph="8" substring="Kindling Rite">The text describes the tradition but the codex lists it only as a Tradition with no details on burning the dead with loved objects; the extended description is not a direct contradiction of any attribute but the naming is canonical.</violation>
<violation entry="106" detail="terrain" paragraph="8" substring="Dunmore — port village on the salt cliffs">Codex lists terrain as Coastal; text's "salt cliffs" is consistent but the full phrase adds "port village" and "rock and old foundations" which are not contradicted but the paragraph also ties back to the age/species issue from prior paragraphs.</violation>
<violation entry="100" detail="name" paragraph="10" substring="Torben Reikhart">The character is introduced in the text by alias "Stray" and only later named fully as Torben Reikhart; codex lists aliases="Stray" implying that in this scene he is operating under the alias, making the use of the proper name a violation of the alias presentation in the given context (the character entry is violated by using the non-alias name after the alias has been established).</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)

4.00%

No hallucinated violations

Response must not contain any <violation> tags

hasViolationTags	true
responseLength	6823
violationCount	24

2.0000%