{"cases":[{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A039__DIRECT","case_type":"DIRECT_POSITIVE","domain":"Municipal water-utility customer demand","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement describes the diagnostic situation and consequences without proposing a method, intervention, or solution.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b024_a15_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"The utility has no dependable customer-type labels, and the inherited billing classes reflect meter administration rather than actual usage behavior."}],"scenario_text":"A municipal water utility is reviewing three years of hourly readings from 180,000 household and small-business meters. Consumption histories differ in timing, seasonality, response to heat, weekday patterns, and frequency of abrupt spikes. Managers suspect that several recurring kinds of demand behavior are hidden in the records, which could explain why conservation notices and capacity forecasts perform unevenly across neighborhoods. However, the utility has no dependable customer-type designations. Its existing billing classes distinguish meter sizes and account contracts, not how premises actually use water; many properties have also changed occupants without an account category change. Staff members can point to memorable examples, but their informal categories disagree and tend to emphasize whichever drought episode they examined most recently. The immediate problem is to determine whether the observed population contains stable, meaningful divisions or only continuous variation and measurement noise, while avoiding assumptions drawn from the administrative categories already attached to accounts.","scenario_title":"Uncertain demand patterns in municipal water records","vocabulary_separation_audit":"Uses utility operations, metering, billing, drought, and demand vocabulary; it does not name the archetype or use its title as a descriptive label."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A039__TRANSFER","case_type":"TRANSFER_POSITIVE","domain":"Deep-sea hydrophone ecology","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement presents an unresolved scientific interpretation problem without prescribing analysis, tooling, or intervention.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b024_a15_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Most acoustic events lack confirmed biological sources, and the archive's broad manual tags are inconsistent and not trustworthy as identities."}],"scenario_text":"A marine observatory has accumulated 2.4 million short acoustic events from hydrophones deployed along a poorly studied deep-sea ridge. Each event can be characterized by spectral shape, pulse spacing, duration, repetition rate, depth, season, and local current conditions. Biologists believe the archive may contain recurring call repertoires from multiple organisms, along with vessel noise and geological sounds, but fewer than one percent of events coincide with a visual sighting or collected specimen. The archive's old annotations—such as “click,” “hum,” and “unknown”—were entered inconsistently by rotating technicians and often describe appearance rather than source. Consequently, they cannot serve as dependable identities. Researchers disagree over whether several visually distinctive sound forms represent different animals, behavioral states of one animal, or recording artifacts. They need to establish whether coherent recurring sets are genuinely present before attaching ecological interpretations, without allowing familiar sound names or a few spectacular recordings to dictate the structure of the entire archive.","scenario_title":"Ambiguous sound forms along a deep-sea ridge","vocabulary_separation_audit":"Uses marine ecology, hydrophones, spectra, specimens, currents, and sound repertoires, making it substantially different from the municipal demand domain and wording."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E15A039__NEAR_MISS","case_type":"ONE_LITERAL_NEAR_MISS","domain":"Deep-sea hydrophone ecology","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":"b024_a15_c1","remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement contains only diagnostic facts and an interpretive question; it recommends no procedure or corrective action.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b024_a15_c1","intended_status":"CONTRADICTED","scenario_evidence":"Every event has a current, independently verified source label based on synchronized imagery or specimen-linked reference calls, with repeated audits confirming accuracy."}],"scenario_text":"A marine observatory is reviewing 2.4 million short acoustic events from hydrophones deployed along a deep-sea ridge. The recordings vary in spectral shape, pulse spacing, duration, repetition rate, depth, season, and local current conditions. Unlike many exploratory sound archives, every event in this collection already carries a current source designation. Each designation was established from synchronized camera footage or comparison with specimen-linked reference calls, and independent annual audits have repeatedly confirmed the identities with high agreement. The catalog distinguishes species, sex, life stage, and known call type; ambiguous recordings were excluded before this study began. Biologists are now concerned that variation within several named species may reflect behavioral states, environmental distortion, or sensor placement rather than additional biological forms. They must explain why some verified identities display broad acoustic variation while others appear nearly uniform, and determine whether apparent subtypes have ecological significance, without mistaking equipment effects for organismal differences. The accepted source designations themselves are not disputed or obsolete.","scenario_title":"Acoustic variation within verified deep-sea species","vocabulary_separation_audit":"Retains the transfer domain's technical difficulty and marine vocabulary while explicitly changing only the availability and reliability of source designations."}],"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp15_route_aware_retrieval40_20260814","sample_id":"E15A039","schema_version":1}