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

# Primary source

**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: primary source; primary sources.

The body that decides or warns, read on its own channel: the only place a fact is read from. (**our summary**, from `CLAUDE.md`)

## Timeline rows that mention it (0)

No timeline row uses one of its names yet.

## 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/primary-source.json](primary-source.json) · [every node](../../entities/index.json) · [the grammar](../../entities/ontology.md)