Name the failure
Take a wrong answer.
Ask: was the right passage returned?
If no, the failure is retrieval.
If yes, the failure is reading or the instruction.
Write one label.
Sources and go deeper
- Lewis and co-authors, Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks, 2020 paper last checked 2026-10
- OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications community last checked 2026-10
- Retrieval-augmented generation — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10