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Groundedness
/groundedness/A scoring dimension that measures whether a generated answer is grounded in and directly supported by evidence in the provided context. It's especially important for RAG and policy-heavy domains. (noun)
“Groundedness dropped when retrieval started returning stale documentation.”
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