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🎯 Simulation: Option 4 - Narrative Threads

This prototype demonstrates story-driven pathways through interconnected content. Follow the evidence trail horizontally through time, seeing how testimonies cite archive items, which are analyzed in blog posts. Visual threads show citations, corroborations, and relationships between content types.

Featured Investigation

Al-Shifa Hospital Crisis: October-December 2023

Following the evidence trail from initial testimony through documentary evidence to analytical context

2 Testimonies3 Archive Items2 Analysis Posts
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Testimony
Dr. Mark Perlmutter - Pediatric Surgeon
October 15, 2023•Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City
Archive
Al-Shifa Hospital Medical Records - October 2023
October 10-20, 2023•Al-Shifa Hospital
Archive
Satellite Imagery - Al-Shifa Hospital Complex
October 1 - November 30, 2023•Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City
Testimony
Nurse Sarah Ahmed - Emergency Care
November 10, 2023•Al-Shifa Hospital
Archive
WHO Situation Reports - Gaza Healthcare
October-December 2023•Gaza Strip
Analysis
Healthcare Under Siege: The Al-Shifa Hospital Crisis
December 15, 2023•Analysis
Analysis
Medical Ethics in Conflict: Impossible Choices
January 10, 2024•Analysis
🔗 Unified Architecture: Narrative Threads in Action

What You're Seeing:

A chronological evidence trail showing how testimonies, archive items, and analysis posts connect through citations, corroborations, and thematic relationships. Visual threads illustrate the flow of evidence and reasoning.

Relationship Types:

  • •Citations: Analysis posts cite testimonies and archive items as evidence
  • •Corroborations: Multiple testimonies confirm the same events from different perspectives
  • •Connections: Content items relate through shared locations, events, or themes

Why It Matters:

This approach transforms isolated content into investigative narratives. Users can follow the evidence trail, understand how conclusions are reached, and see the interconnected nature of documentation, testimony, and analysis.

Technical Implementation:

The unified content schema includes relationship metadata (cites, corroborates, mentions) that enables automatic thread generation. Each content item knows what it references and what references it, creating a bidirectional knowledge graph.

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