This is an evidence type used in Stencila for graph edges.

It records why an edge exists, how confident the assertion is, and optional provenance details about the observation, assertion, or imported metadata.

The evidence metadata fields have distinct roles:

codeLocation is the exact location in source text where the evidence was found, such as a line and column in a code file, manifest, or document.

source is the evidence carrier or authority when it is not sufficiently described by codeLocation.source, such as an imported graph, attestation, external service, execution record, or user assertion.

details is for machine-readable detector-specific context that is not represented by core fields, such as parser rules, path expressions, dependency groups, package identifiers, or confidence inputs.

description is an optional human-readable fallback for display when a useful explanation cannot be derived from the structured fields.

Properties

The GraphEvidence type has these properties:

Name	Description	Type	Inherited from
`kind`	The kind of evidence.	`GraphEvidenceKind`	-
`confidence`	The confidence in the evidence.	`GraphEvidenceConfidence`	-
`codeLocation`	The exact location in source text where the evidence was found.	`CodeLocation`	-
`source`	The evidence carrier or authority, when not sufficiently represented by the code location.	`ThingVariant` \| `String`	-
`recordedAt`	When this evidence was recorded.	`Timestamp`	-
`details`	Additional machine-readable details about the evidence.	`Object`	-
`description`	Optional human-readable explanation of the evidence.	`String`	-
`id`	The identifier for this item.	`String`	`Entity`

The GraphEvidence type is related to these types:

Parents: Entity

Children: none

Bindings

The GraphEvidence type is represented in:

JSON-LD

JSON Schema

Python class GraphEvidence

Rust struct GraphEvidence

TypeScript class GraphEvidence

This documentation was generated from GraphEvidence.yaml by docs_types.rs.

Properties

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Bindings