{
  "title": "Bison herd inventory reporting records for AI",
  "source_page": "https://fiund.com/industries/bison-herd-report-reconciliation-data",
  "authorship": "Original fictional Fiund editorial exercise. No actual operating records or third-party source assets are included.",
  "example": {
    "title": "A group correction can leave a herd total unchanged",
    "context": "Artificial inventory summaries use invented age-group labels and no real herd, property, animal or movement information.",
    "records": [
      [
        "BR1",
        "Snapshot S1",
        "Reference day 1: group G1=12, G2=8, total 20. Definitions attached to original practice card."
      ],
      [
        "BR2",
        "Correction S1R",
        "Explicitly corrects day-1 classification: move two counted units from G1 to G2. Corrected G1=10, G2=10; total remains 20."
      ],
      [
        "BR3",
        "Other summaries",
        "Snapshot S2 on day 10 totals 22 under a different group definition. Note N says G1=11 but has no reference date or definition."
      ]
    ],
    "question": "What explains S1's changed group counts, and which comparisons remain unsupported without more metadata?",
    "answer": "BR2 explicitly reclassifies two units within BR1's day-1 inventory, producing 10 and 10 while preserving the total of 20. It is not evidence of additions or removals. BR3's day-10 total belongs to another date and group definition, while N lacks both a date and a definition. Preserve those scope differences and seek clarification before treating the group figures as a like-for-like trend or assigning N to either snapshot.",
    "failureModes": [
      "Interpreting a within-total classification correction as a change in herd size.",
      "Comparing undated or differently defined groups as if they used the same reporting basis."
    ],
    "fields": [
      [
        "Reference date and snapshot version",
        "Defines the inventory state."
      ],
      [
        "Group definition and correction movement",
        "Explains classification changes."
      ],
      [
        "Total and missing metadata",
        "Supports reconciliation without inventing history."
      ]
    ],
    "holdout": "Supply N's date but leave its group definition absent. Require the date gap to close while the definition gap remains.",
    "boundary": "Use wholly artificial records. Exclude actual herd identifiers, locations, health, financial information and operational animal decisions."
  }
}