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 "title": "What a passport field can and cannot prove",
 "description": "The difference between a value in a passport field and a claim you can defend: the five tests, the certification gateway, and why evidence fails on scope.",
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 "direct_answer": "A passport field proves the record. It proves that a named party stated a named value on a named date, and if the passport is built properly it proves where that statement came from. That is worth a great deal and it is not the same as proving the claim.",
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