# Networks and evidence

A Network is one investigation and its persistence boundary. Its entities, relationships, Sources, Citations and layout form one versioned document. Selecting a record does not duplicate it, and hiding it from the canvas does not remove it from the Network.

## Choose the record you mean

There are 15 entity kinds: Person, Company, Organisation, Government agency, Group, Online account, Domain, Email address, Phone number, Crypto wallet, Location, Asset, Financial account, Document and Event. Their stable stored codes appear in the technical-contract chapter. Choose a kind for the record's role in the investigation, not for its visual shape.

A Document entity represents a document in the graph. It is not a file attachment or a captured web archive. A Source holds source material or its URL. A Citation connects a Source to one entity or relationship.

## Create a relationship with the correct direction

**Prerequisites:** two existing entities and a specific relationship you are prepared to represent.

1. Select a relevant entity and choose **Connect**. The dialog is the keyboard-accessible alternative to dragging between connection handles.
2. Choose source and target entities. Select an endpoint-compatible relationship type from the offered choices.
3. Review the direction. For example, `person → director-of → company` describes a person's role. It does not establish that one company owns another.
4. Set relevant optional fields, confidence, dates or notes, then save.
5. Select the new relationship and inspect its endpoints, predicate and confidence. Add evidence separately.

**Expected result:** one relationship record. Parallel relationships are permitted; each remains a separate claim with its own evidence.

## Attach and interpret evidence

Select an entity or relationship and choose **Add citation** in **Sources and citations**. Choose **Create source** or **Use existing source**. A **Web source** needs its title, URL and retrieved date. **Pasted text** stores the submitted source text. Complete any required fields shown in the dialog, add an excerpt or evidence location where useful, and save.

| Assessment         | What it means                                                             |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Analyst confidence | Your assessment of a record: confirmed, probable, unconfirmed or disputed |
| Citation stance    | How one source relates to that record: Supports, Disputes or Context      |
| Record origin      | Whether a record came from manual input, CSV, AI or legacy data           |
| Model confidence   | Advisory proposal metadata; not the analyst's confidence                  |

A supporting citation is not automatic proof. A disputing citation need not prove the opposite claim. Keep the narrower conclusion and unresolved questions in notes. Removing a citation does not delete its reusable Source. Manually authored records may remain uncited; the Inspector and citation-state filters expose that fact.

**Recovery:** if a relationship type is unavailable, check the selected endpoint kinds and direction. Do not switch to an inaccurate kind merely to bypass validation.