Golden Benchmarks•Empirical Evaluation Suite
The 20 Golden Longitudinal Questions
Constitutional Law 13 dictates: Evaluation before complexity. AION is judged not by subjective demos, but by its empirical ability to answer these 20 longitudinal benchmark questions with strict evidence grounding, contradiction awareness, and transparent limitations.
Why One-Shot LLMs Fail These 20 Questions
Standard LLMs with web search cannot reliably answer these questions because search engines prioritize SEO-optimized recency over historical provenance. They hallucinate timelines, collapse state-level differences, silently overwrite prior official figures, and confuse urban editorial commentary with national demographic reality. AION succeeds because its persistent relational substrate records every statement, hash, and contradiction over time.
Q01Education
Validated Benchmark“What changed in Nigeria's education discourse over the last 30 days?”
Evaluation Criterion: Emerging topics, declining topics, significant events, supporting evidence citations, contradictory claims, timeline of policy announcements, explanation of detection methodology, and known limitations.
Q02Education
Validated Benchmark“Which education topics persisted continuously over the last three months?”
Evaluation Criterion: Distinguish transient media spikes from entrenched policy deliberations.
Q03Education
Validated Benchmark“Which events corresponded with major discourse changes regarding university funding?”
Evaluation Criterion: Cross-link grounded temporal events with frequency surge inflection points.
Q04Education
Validated Benchmark“Which claims regarding secondary school curriculum changes have strong corroborating evidence?”
Evaluation Criterion: Filter claims by corroboration depth (multi-source attribution vs single rumor).
Q05Economy
Validated Benchmark“Which government statements on food price inflation have significant contradictory reporting from market surveys?”
Evaluation Criterion: Bilateral contradiction graph linking ministerial press releases with market surveys.
Q06Economy
Validated Benchmark“Which economic topics are increasing in coverage faster than their 90-day historical baseline?”
Evaluation Criterion: Z-score velocity calculations comparing current 7d window against 90d moving average.
Q07Health
Validated Benchmark“Which reported health supply shortages are concentrated in specific geopolitical zones versus nationally distributed?”
Evaluation Criterion: Regional entity tagging across the 6 Nigerian geopolitical zones.
Q08Economy / Governance
Validated Benchmark“What changed in public discourse in the 14 days immediately following the major subsidy policy announcement?”
Evaluation Criterion: High-density timeline tracking reaction curves, union responses, and price shifts.
Q09Labor / Governance
Validated Benchmark“Which signals regarding strike actions represent genuine institutional announcements versus unverified social media chatter?”
Evaluation Criterion: Enforce Law 4 & 5: separate accredited union gazettes from viral social chatter.
Q10Health
Validated Benchmark“What can AION NOT determine from the available evidence regarding maternal mortality trends this quarter?”
Evaluation Criterion: Mandatory limitations disclosure highlighting reporting lags and geographic blind spots.
Q11Energy / Economy
Validated Benchmark“How did national discourse on electricity tariff hikes evolve between Month 1 and Month 2?”
Evaluation Criterion: Comparative delta ledger tracking framing shifts from consumer backlash to regulatory defense.
Q12Health / Governance
Validated Benchmark“What contradictions exist between federal and state health ministry releases concerning disease outbreak numbers?”
Evaluation Criterion: First-class contradiction entity mapping conflicting epidemiological caseload counts.
Q13Education
Validated Benchmark“Which education sector claims have only single-source attribution and remain uncorroborated?”
Evaluation Criterion: Flag unverified claims to prevent misinformation propagation.
Q14Economy
Validated Benchmark“What are the primary emerging topics in youth employment discourse over the last 60 days?”
Evaluation Criterion: Emerging topic clustering with threshold-based emergence velocity.
Q15Finance / Monetary Policy
Validated Benchmark“How do media representations of exchange rate fluctuations compare to central bank official circulars over the past 30 days?”
Evaluation Criterion: Compare official monetary policy directives against retail market reporting.
Q16Education / Governance
Validated Benchmark“What key events triggered the sudden frequency surge in basic education commission (UBEC) coverage?”
Evaluation Criterion: Isolate root events driving sudden news volume spikes.
Q17Health / Labor
Validated Benchmark“Which public claims about hospital doctor strikes were refuted by union representatives within 48 hours?”
Evaluation Criterion: Sub-48hr temporal delta matching initial claim with explicit union rebuttal.
Q18Education
Validated Benchmark“What evidence exists for regional disparities in primary school enrollment figures cited in public reports?”
Evaluation Criterion: Trace enrollment statistics back to primary administrative gazettes and survey hashes.
Q19Economy
Validated Benchmark“Which economic signals observed in the last 30 days represent genuine population-level trends versus localized urban discourse?”
Evaluation Criterion: Enforce Law 5: penalize generalizations derived solely from Lagos/Abuja reporting.
Q20Health / Geographic
Validated Benchmark“What are the explicit limitations and sampling gaps in AION's collected health evidence for Northern Nigeria over the past month?”
Evaluation Criterion: Comprehensive audit of state-level gazette coverage gaps and media collection blind spots.
Live Testing
Test Q01 on the Analyst Workbench