---
title: "IdentityDecision"
description: "same, new or review, with the chance and the evidence; a wrong one is never edited"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/identitydecision
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# IdentityDecision

same, new or review, with the chance and the evidence; a wrong one is never edited

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

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | fact |
| scope | follows |
| key | the mention, the method and the resolver's version |
| store | postgres+lake |
| family | identity |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `mention` | `id` | yes |  |
| `method` | [IdentityMethod](/concepts/identitymethod) | yes |  |
| `resolver_version` | `text` | yes |  |
| `answer` | `one of same \| new \| review` | yes |  |
| `entity` | `id` | no |  |
| `chance` | `chance` | yes |  |
| `evidence` | [EvidenceRef](/concepts/evidenceref) | yes |  |
| `names_as_wrong` | `id` | no | a later decision names the one it corrects |



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