T4-R4 in five minutes
Search returns candidates. Reading decides.
The answer should quote or point at the passage.
If two passages disagree, say so.
Do not blend them into a third fact.
The reader is the person who must trust the quote.
A contact-center style note and a policy note can disagree about a refund. The grounded reply names both and does not invent a compromise number.
Sources and go deeper
- Lewis and co-authors, Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks, 2020 paper last checked 2026-10
- Retrieval-augmented generation — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10