The retrieved material supports an answer
The retrieved material contains support for the answer.
What this scenario means
This is the baseline grounding case: the needed support is already present in what the system retrieved. It tests whether the system can recognise supported evidence and use it, rather than inventing a claim or treating a supported case like an absent one.
What we evaluate
- Whether the retrieved material contains enough support for the claim being made.
- Whether the system can ground its response in the retrieved material rather than outside knowledge.
- Whether the case is treated as a supported baseline, not as an unsupported or missing-answer case.
Capabilities this scenario exercises
A scenario may exercise one or more capabilities.
Answer Generation
Where it writes the answer, does it say only what its own sources support -- declining when they don't, flagging when they disagree, and attributing what it does claim? Judged against what THAT TOOL retrieved, never against the web. Out of scope for search-only products, which is not a zero and never drags them down a ranking. A citation that correctly points at the source of a wrong answer is a CORRECT citation.
Grounded Generation
The answer is faithful to the material the system itself retrieved, including declining when that material doesn't support one.
Benchmarks that use this scenario
A scenario has global identity and may be reused across benchmarks.
Managed RAG
Which managed RAG service turns a folder of private documents into a query API that finds the right passage, answers only from what it retrieved, cites the source that actually supports the claim — and keeps up when the source changes?
Web Search for AI
Also uses this scenario.