Data Provenance

Domain: Safety & Ethics

🎯 Motivation

Knowing where data came from, who created it, and how it has been modified. Essential for trust and compliance.

πŸ“‹ Concrete Example

Provenance: β€˜This dataset: collected from Wikipedia (Jan 2025), filtered for English, deduplicated, labeled by 5 annotators, reviewed by 2 editors.’ Full history.

πŸ”— Analogy

A certificate of origin for a diamond - it proves where the diamond was mined, cut, and sold. Data provenance is the certificate of origin for training data.