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I. Case Background

It has become commonplace for large‑language models to generate central‑state‑owned‑enterprise (central‑SOE) group profiles, bidding‑qualification review documents, and investment‑and‑financing due‑diligence working papers. Unlike small‑and‑micro entities, central SOEs are covered by extremely dense public sources, including corporate official websites, State‑owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) releases, Ministry of Water Resources materials, and stock‑exchange disclosures. Models seldom fabricate facts out of thin air for such subjects. The real challenge becomes mismatched statistical scopes and official 口径: two official versions for the same founding date, or different statistical boundaries for identical scale metrics, with readers seeing only one of them.

The document under review is a group profile of China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG). It covers four sections: basic information, core businesses, key listed subsidiaries, and core corporate value. It is a typical LLM‑generated snapshot for a central SOE, frequently used for bidding qualification reviews, background segments in media articles, knowledge‑base entries and encyclopaedia source materials.

Verification Objective: Leveraging the Aumedia Fact‑Checker KUCR Four‑Layer Attestation System, perform factual refinement, conflict identification and opinion segregation for LLM outputs. Distinguish verified facts, insufficiently‑supported claims, conflict‑risk facts and subjective value judgements. For group‑structured entities, the priority is not detecting outright fabrication, but scope alignment and time‑point labelling. Every statement such as founding date, statistical year, and number of covered countries must cite its source explicitly.

II. Verification‑Tool Description: Aumedia Fact‑Checker KUCR Four‑Layer Attestation System

Aumedia Fact‑Checker is purpose‑built for fact‑attestation of LLM‑generated content. Distinct from simplistic binary true‑or‑false rumour‑debunking tools, it adheres to a core principle: it does not render blanket right‑or‑wrong verdicts. It only verifies whether authoritative evidence exists, whether multiple sources are mutually consistent, and under what conditions conclusions hold true.

Four‑layer attestation workflow:

1. K (Knowledge Decomposition): Segment long AI‑generated texts into discrete atomic facts. Categorise content as basic business‑registry information, qualification certificates, corporate positioning, core businesses, corporate value, subsidiary entities and operational statistics. Preserve original qualifying conditions and statistical boundaries.
2. U (Semantic Normalisation): Identify content types and strictly separate verifiable objective facts / official characterisations and promotional statements / descriptions of statistical scope / AI‑synthesised judgements. Prohibit treating official promotional wording as third‑party measured conclusions.
3. C (Conflict Calibration): Cross‑reference against independent sources including Chinese‑ and English‑language group‑official‑website pages, SASAC central‑SOE directories and reports, functional departments of the Ministry of Water Resources, statutory stock‑exchange disclosures and local‑government portals. Focus on detecting mixing of approval‑date versus registration‑date, divergent statistical boundaries, and reuse of outdated figures as current‑period data.
4. R (Result Attestation & Archiving): Output four labels: Verified Fact, Insufficient‑Evidence Claim, Conflict Risk (Unwarranted Inference) and Value Judgement. Tag each entry with source references and confidence grades. Flag conflicting records as archive‑prohibited. The full verification pipeline remains traceable and auditable.

Evidence‑Acceptance Rules: Claims corroborated by multiple consistent sources are accepted; divergent accounts are explicitly flagged; absence of retrievable supporting evidence does not automatically prove falsity. Only objective facts undergo assessment; opinions, evaluations and commercial recommendations are excluded from factual adjudication.

III. Subject of Verification

This verification was executed by the corporate fact‑checker in Enterprise‑Edition KUCR · Item‑by‑Item Atomic‑Fact Attestation mode. Task ID SC‑20261110‑654501; verification ran from 16:45:37 to 16:47:01 on 2026‑11‑10, lasting approximately one‑and‑a‑half minutes. The system decomposed the input document into 28 atomic facts and cited 59 pieces of supporting evidence in total. Verification outcome: 26 facts consistent with public materials, 2 items with scope divergence, 0 items without retrievable evidence. Overall conclusion: Partial divergence exists between some facts and publicly‑available materials. Archive status: unclaimed artifact generated by AI fact‑checking.

Scope of the source document: corporate name and abbreviations; central‑SOE status; establishment and institutional evolution; headquarters and registered address; official website; corporate positioning; six cascade hydropower stations and the world‑largest clean‑energy corridor; new‑energy business and Yangtze‑River basin ecological conservation; other business segments; two listed‑company platforms; comprehensive benefits of the Three Gorges Project; installed‑capacity structure and dual‑carbon positioning; overseas‑business coverage.

Verification Boundary: This verification adjudicated only the 28 decomposed atomic‑fact entries. The statement “overseas‑business covers nearly 20 countries and regions” within the appendix was assessed among itemised facts. No conclusions are drawn for remaining non‑decomposed summarised text.

IV. Publication of Standardised Verification Results

✅ Verified Facts (26 items; multi‑source cross‑validated; eligible for repository ingestion)

1. Entity status: A wholly‑state‑owned central‑SOE supervised by the State‑owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, listed as No. 21 in the SASAC central‑SOE directory. Short name: China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG). Legal‑form registration: limited‑liability company (wholly‑state‑owned), with SASAC of the State Council as its shareholder.
2. Name evolution: Approved by the State Council in 1993 as China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation. Renamed China Yangtze Three Gorges Group Corporation in 2009. Restructured and adopted its present‑day name in 2017. Consistently documented across corporate official‑website historical records, SASAC archives and stock‑exchange disclosures.
3. Founding mandate: Established to construct the Three Gorges Project and mitigate Yangtze‑River flood hazards. Approved for founding by the State Council on 27 September 1993, as recorded on both the corporate website and SASAC materials (note the alternate business‑registry founding‑date listed under conflict‑risk items).
4. Headquarters and registered address: Headquarters relocated from Beijing back to Wuhan on 26 September 2021. Registered address: No. 1 Liuhe Road, Jiang’an District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, matching business‑registry filings and Shenzhen Stock Exchange statutory disclosures. Official‑website domain: www.ctg.com.cn.
5. Corporate positioning: The world’s‑largest hydropower developer‑operator, a leading domestic clean‑energy and eco‑environmental‑protection group, a key implementing entity for Yangtze‑River conservation, and one of the first‑batch of ten demonstration enterprises designated by SASAC to build world‑class‑level capabilities.
6. Core hydropower business: Six cascade hydropower stations — Three Gorges, Gezhouba, Xiluodu, Xiangjiaba, Baihetan and Wudongde — form the world‑largest clean‑energy corridor, delivering flood control, power generation, shipping navigation and water‑resource regulation. These facilities are operated by controlling subsidiary China Yangtze Power Co., Ltd.
7. Business portfolio: New‑energy development (onshore wind power, offshore wind power and photovoltaic power, with Three Gorges Energy as its strategic implementation vehicle); Yangtze‑River conservation starting with municipal‑wastewater treatment, covering water‑environment restoration and urban eco‑environmental‑protection across 11 provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River; engineering‑construction and consulting; international‑energy‑investment and contracting; capital operations and financial services.
8. Listed platforms: Three Gorges Energy (stock code 600905), listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange main board in June 2021, a new‑energy platform focused on wind‑ and‑solar assets. China Yangtze Power (stock code 600900), listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2003, operating the six cascade stations on the mainstream Yangtze River, with domestic hydropower installed capacity of 71.695 GW. It ranks as China’s largest listed power utility and the world’s‑largest listed hydropower enterprise.
9. Installed‑capacity profile: Renewable‑energy installed capacity exceeds 140 GW, accounting for 96 % of total installed capacity. The statement “extremely‑high share of clean‑energy capacity” is supported by this dataset, not by descriptive adjectives, per official‑website disclosures.
10. Three Gorges Project: Delivers comprehensive benefits including flood control, power generation, shipping navigation and water‑resource utilisation. It is the world’s‑largest water‑conservancy hub project and a key backbone project for Yangtze‑River governance and development. Descriptions align between the Ministry of Water Resources Three Gorges Project Administration Department and corporate official‑website materials.

⚠️ Insufficient‑Evidence Claim (0 entries)

No entries fall into this category. All 26 verified‑fact items are backed by official‑website, SASAC, Ministry of Water Resources or stock‑exchange disclosures; many are corroborated by three or more independent authoritative sources. No statements rely solely on corporate self‑assertion.

❌ Conflict‑Risk Entries (2 items; scope‑calibration conflicts; archive‑prohibited and not for direct citation)

1. Founding date (27 September 1993): Two authoritative official versions co‑exist. The corporate website and SASAC historical materials document State‑Council‑approved founding on 27 September 1993. Business‑registry filings and Shenzhen Stock Exchange statutory disclosures record the registration date as 18 September 1993. Both originate from authoritative sources and reflect the distinction between approval‑of‑establishment date versus business‑registry registration date, not invented content. Any external usage must explicitly specify which version is adopted; mixing the two will create chronological contradictions.
2. Overseas‑business presence covering nearly 20 countries and regions: People’s‑Daily reports republished on the CTG official website explicitly state overseas‑business activities span 47 countries and regions, more than double the “nearly 20” figure. This constitutes material numerical underestimation. This phrase is prone to misuse within bidding‑qualification reviews and international‑business introductions; it must be replaced with the latest authoritative scope together with timestamp annotation.

Note: The two divergences are of different types. The founding‑date discrepancy represents two equally‑valid dates requiring scope labelling. The overseas‑country‑count discrepancy reflects distorted statistical scope, requiring numerical correction per authoritative sources. The fact‑checker flags both as conflict‑risk but applies different handling rules: the former requires explicit scope annotation; the latter mandates updating figures per authoritative sources.