Correction log

Every correction, with the name of who made it.

We have made 2 to date. Each one names the person who verified it against the source, the date, and the reasoning — because a correction log without its verifier is just an anonymous edit.

These are cases where the source is wrong or ambiguous, not parser bugs. That distinction is the reason this list is short and the reason it exists at all. When our reading of a record is wrong in a way that generalizes, we fix the extraction rule and re-run it across every affected case — that is not a correction, it is a repair, and it leaves no entry here.

A correction is the other thing: a single record where the document itself cannot be read the way it is written, and a person had to decide. We do not teach the parser a rule from one of these, because the same pattern is read correctly in thousands of other cases and a rule drawn from an exception would break them.

Each correction is applied as an overlay on top of the parse, so it survives a re-parse, and the originally parsed value is kept beside it. The disagreement between the two is the auditable part. How that works, and what it means for the accuracy figure →

case-doc-bza-z-1526-B20 2026-07-30

decision corrected to WITHDRAWN

The grid marks WITHDRAWN and DEFERRED both, which the parser reads as SPLIT, meaning two separately-voted requests. But the motion reads 'Deferred Withdrawn per Zoning Administrator' with MADE BY, SECOND and VOTE all blank, so no vote occurred. This is a sequence (deferred, then withdrawn) that the grid format cannot express, not a split decision.

Verified by Grier Melick (gold-set pass); re-verified against extracted source

case-doc-bza-z-771-B7 2026-07-30

decision corrected to DEFERRED

City clerical error. The F1 grid marks DISAPPROVED, but the only motion in the block reads MOTION: Deferral, carried FOR 6 AGAINST 0. A unanimous vote to defer is a deferral. Correcting this removes a false denial, which is the rarest and most consequential outcome in the corpus.

Verified by Grier Melick (gold-set pass); re-verified against extracted source

Generated from the correction record, observed 2026-08-01.

What is not on this page

Two instruments, two provenances, never blended.

This log holds human-verified corrections only — a person read the source and decided. Our build process also makes its own adjudications where a record is structurally ambiguous, and each of those carries the sentence it was decided on, on file.

They are deliberately not merged into this list. They are a different weight of evidence, and folding a machine's judgement in beside a person's named verification would quietly make the second look like the first. When those are published they will be published as what they are, separately.