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What the assistant can and cannot do

What the grounded assistant can and cannot do. It returns only real facts, relations, and citations from the graph; no language model is configured, so it never generates prose and never fabricates an answer.

Language-model status

LLM configured
No
Provider
Mode
deterministic-grounded

No language-model provider is configured in this deployment. The assistant runs in deterministic-grounded mode: it returns real facts, relations, evidence chains, and citations from the graph, and does not generate prose. No answer is ever fabricated.

What it does — deterministically

  • Explains an entity from its real description, relations, and cited sources.
  • Compares two entities by their real shared connections.
  • Traces the shortest evidence path between two entities, link by link.
  • Builds a learning path from real relations and curated paths.
  • Summarises the real, source-backed citations behind an entity.
  • Says “not enough graph evidence” when the graph cannot answer.

What it will not do

  • Generate prose or opinions — no language model is configured.
  • Assert a fact that is not already in the knowledge graph.
  • Invent numbers, dates, names, or citations to fill a gap.
  • Persist a conversation — there is no chat history or account.

The guardrails — ready for a model

If a language-model provider is ever wired in, it may only phrase the grounded facts it is given, under these rules:

  1. 1.Use ONLY the facts in the provided grounded context; never introduce a fact that is not there.
  2. 2.Cite the evidence for every claim, by the [F#] fact or [C#] citation it comes from.
  3. 3.If the context does not contain enough to answer, reply 'Not enough graph evidence to answer.' — do not guess.
  4. 4.Do not speculate, extrapolate, or add numbers, dates, or names beyond the context.
  5. 5.Preserve uncertainty: if the graph marks something debated or unconfirmed, keep that qualification.

The citation-forced packet

This is exactly what a model would receive for an example entity — grounded facts and citations, and nothing else. The retrieval is real today; the generation is future work.

You are a grounded scientific assistant. Answer using ONLY the grounded context below.
Rules:
- Use ONLY the facts in the provided grounded context; never introduce a fact that is not there.
- Cite the evidence for every claim, by the [F#] fact or [C#] citation it comes from.
- If the context does not contain enough to answer, reply 'Not enough graph evidence to answer.' — do not guess.
- Do not speculate, extrapolate, or add numbers, dates, or names beyond the context.
- Preserve uncertainty: if the graph marks something debated or unconfirmed, keep that qualification.

QUESTION: What is Mars, and how does it connect to the rest of the graph?

GROUNDED FACTS (use only these):
[F1] Mars — Part of → Solar System (source: Solar System)
[F2] Mars — Child of → Phobos (source: Phobos)
[F3] Mars — Child of → Deimos (source: Deimos)
[F4] Mars — Mission target → Mars Science Laboratory (source: Mars Science Laboratory)
[F5] Mars — Target of → Viking 1 (source: Viking 1)
[F6] Mars — Target of → Mars Express (source: Mars Express)
[F7] Mars — Target of → Mars 2020 (source: Mars 2020)
[F8] Mars — Landed on → Curiosity (source: Curiosity)
[F9] Mars — Landed on → Perseverance (source: Perseverance)
[F10] Mars — Located on → Ingenuity (source: Ingenuity)
[F11] Mars — Landed on → Opportunity (source: Opportunity)
[F12] Mars — Landed on → Spirit (source: Spirit)
[F13] Mars — Located on → Olympus Mons (source: Olympus Mons)
[F14] Mars — Located on → Valles Marineris (source: Valles Marineris)
[F15] Mars — Mission target → Viking 1 (source: Viking 1)
[F16] Mars — Mission target → Viking 2 (source: Viking 2)
[F17] Mars — Mission target → Mars Pathfinder (source: Mars Pathfinder)
[F18] Mars — Mission target → Mars Express (source: Mars Express)
[F19] Mars — Mission target → Spirit (MER-A) (source: Spirit (MER-A))
[F20] Mars — Mission target → Opportunity (MER-B) (source: Opportunity (MER-B))

CITATIONS:
[C1] Approximate Positions of the Planets — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech). https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/approx_pos.html
[C2] Planets — NASA Science — NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/planets/
[C3] Mars Fact Sheet — NASA Goddard — NSSDCA. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.html
[C4] Mars — NASA Solar System Exploration — NASA. https://science.nasa.gov/

Answer, citing [F#]/[C#] for every claim. If the facts are insufficient, reply exactly: 'Not enough graph evidence to answer.'