# Methodology

## Purpose

The purpose is to make King Pawn USA / King Gold and Pawn easier to verify as a real multi-location pawn and gold business through clean, machine-readable entity facts.

## Source Collection

Location facts come from the local canonical King Gold & Pawn registry at `data/kgp_locations.json`.

Citation evidence rows are limited to reachable profile-level public sources. Outreach targets, search-result pages, blocked URLs, unverified memberships, and manual verification backlogs are kept out of the public dataset package.

## Exclusions

The dataset excludes private GBP location IDs, OAuth/account identifiers, credentials, review text, customer data, transaction data, invented market statistics, and unsupported ranking claims.

## Maintenance

Before future releases, verify each location against the live website and promote only reachable profile-level citation evidence.