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Claims that cannot be graded

The unrated column, and why it is honest to leave it filled.

Snapshot 2026-10-25 240 claims 138 citations 209 people

The ledger has a verdict called unrated, and it is the most common verdict in the dataset. That is not a placeholder: it records the fact that no document exists that could settle the claim, or that the claim as written admits no test.

Naming that state is more useful than inventing a grade. A reader who sees unrated learns something true about the sentence and about the speaker.

Validated2
Partly borne out4
Contested12
Missed2
Open43
Unrated177
Why not 'too vague'Vagueness is the speaker's problem, not the record's. The ledger names the state instead of blaming it.

Figures computed from docs/predictions/ledger.json at build time. Every claim quoted on this page carries its own sources in the ledger.