A fact graph organizes a matter around discrete facts rather than documents. Each fact node carries its date, its supporting source with a pinpoint citation, the witnesses or records addressing it, and its relationships to other facts including corroboration and contradiction.
It is built by extracting facts from source material and resolving references to the same event or entity across documents.
Alternative Names:
Case Fact Graph, Fact Network
Why it Matters?
Litigation teams currently reconstruct this structure by hand in chronologies, issue outlines, and deposition summaries, and the work is repeated by every person who touches the matter. Representing it once, with each fact tied to its source, makes chronologies, contradiction analysis, and witness preparation derivable rather than separately assembled. The requirement is that every node cite its source, since an unsourced fact is unusable in litigation.
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How does a fact graph differ from a chronology?
Why must every fact link to a source?
