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title: "Fact"
summary: "Read from the body that decides or warns."
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> Kept by incident.entities@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 08:47 UTC. A node of the [entities](../README.md): made from [its data](fact.json), where every line names the row or decision it was taken from. Nothing is stated here for the first time.

# Fact

**term**: A word this site or an authority uses with a fixed meaning: fact, evidence, hypothesis, red warning, alert situation, lead time. [All term nodes](README.md). Also written: fact; facts.

Read from the body that decides or warns. (**our summary**, from `CLAUDE.md`)

## Fact is a kind of

- [Label](../../entities/term/label.md) · **ours** · "fact: read on the channel of the body that decides or warns, by us or by a named desk" · this site, read 11 Nov, 08:47 UTC · from `data/graph/ontology.json`

## Timeline rows that mention it (2)

| When (UTC) | Label | What the row says |
|---|---|---|
| [11 Nov, 09:41 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0941) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.meteorologist@, hypothesis) on the press's "two centres" (s-1111T0939). Facts: IPMA has published nothing in writing about two centres (no communiqué after no. 2, which speaks of one; its CAP texts do not describe the low). Madeira airport's pressure was lowest at 991 hPa at 06:30… |
| [11 Nov, 00:15 UTC](../../incidents/2026-11-10-storm-charles/timeline.md#s-1111T0015) | hypothesis | analysis (incident.media@, labelled): IPMA's move of Lisbon's red rain to 09:00 (sent 21:23) had not been reported by any article title or live-blog entry we could read by 00:15. Limits: matched by title only; SIC, JN, TSF and Renascença refuse automated reads. Who was first on the other facts: red … |

## Evidence (0 outside addresses)

Its statements come from this site's own files.

## The same node elsewhere

- The graph (data/graph/) has no node for this yet.
- As data: [term/fact.json](fact.json) · [every node](../../entities/index.json) · [the grammar](../../entities/ontology.md)