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      "literal_claim": "PTBCC (Prototype-driven Bayesian Classifier Combination) models annotators via a shared set of prototype confusion matrices rather than learning one confusion matrix per annotator (Section on method overview).",
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      "native_scale_justification": "The audit consumes all ten publicly recoverable registered datasets at the exact Table-3 task, annotator, truth, class and label counts, and executes PTBCC from the paper's equations and printed initialization; no substitute benchmark is counted.",
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      "limitation": "Aircr (593 tasks, 50 annotators, six classes, 1,588 labels) has no public annotation file; unstated implementation details or that missing dataset could explain the discrepancy.",
      "literal_claim": "Across 11 real-world crowdsourcing datasets, PTBCC attains an average accuracy of 0.7472, versus 0.7175 for FGBCC, 0.7132 for BWA, and 0.6986 for majority voting (Table 4).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The audit consumes all ten publicly recoverable registered datasets at the exact Table-3 task, annotator, truth, class and label counts, and executes PTBCC from the paper's equations and printed initialization; no substitute benchmark is counted.",
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      "scope_boundary": "This is a literal failure to reproduce 0.7472 under the printed algorithm on all ten publicly recoverable native datasets, not a claim that the paper is mathematically impossible.",
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      "limitation": "The unavailable Aircr dataset and possible unstated author implementation details remain explicit boundaries on the comparison with the paper's eleven-dataset averages.",
      "literal_claim": "PTBCC's ablation over prototype set size |S| shows accuracy peaking at |S|=2 (0.7472) and degrading to 0.7300 at |S|=3 and 0.7271 at |S|=4 due to sparser per-prototype annotator distributions (Table 5).",
      "native_scale_justification": "The audit consumes all ten publicly recoverable registered datasets at the exact Table-3 task, annotator, truth, class and label counts, and executes PTBCC from the paper's equations and printed initialization; no substitute benchmark is counted.",
      "not_proxy_reason": "The measured objects are the registered PTBCC variational updates, released crowd annotations, prototype-size ablation and confusion-structure cost expression, not a nearby task, peer output or source-table-only abstention.",
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      "destructive_or_boundary_control": "Replacing prototype sharing with a separate confusion matrix for every worker raises the exact pooled state from 4,354 to 71,650 parameters while the native accuracy baseline is lower.",
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