---
title: "Explanation"
description: "why an entity is a lead, written by a model from the highlighted evidence alone, citing each span"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/explanation
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Explanation

why an entity is a lead, written by a model from the highlighted evidence alone, citing each span

[figure: Explanation is a fact at tenant scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | tenant |
| key | the lead and the model |
| store | postgres |
| family | people |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `lead` | `id` | yes |  |
| `text` | `text` | yes |  |
| `model` | `text` | yes | the model id |
| `cites` | [Highlight](/concepts/highlight) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Explanation directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.