Knowledge Reconstruction Fidelity: once recognized and retrieved, can evaluators reconstruct Upstream Zero faithfully?

Knowledge Reconstruction Fidelity. Our second experiment asks a question that only becomes meaningful after propagation: once an evaluator has recognized and retrieved Upstream Zero, can it reconstruct Upstream Zero faithfully: its identity, claims, relationships, evidence tiers, uncertainty, and theory? This is distinct from EXP-0001 (Knowledge Propagation), and the two are not merged: recognition and retrieval are the precondition; faithful reconstruction is the thing measured here.

Day 0 evidence is not scored here. Propagation captures collected at Day 0 are baseline observations for EXP-0001. Reconstruction scoring applies only to responses in which the evaluator has already recognized and retrieved the entity; attaching Day 0 propagation captures to reconstruction scoring would confound the two experiments.

Motivating example (external, not evidence produced by Upstream Zero): the Inspired Taste case, in which visibility and citation coexisted with a failure of representation fidelity. It demonstrates that being cited is not the same as being reconstructed faithfully. That is the exact pattern this experiment is built to measure. It motivates the question; it evidences no finding of ours.

Status honesty: this is a draft protocol, held privately until it is formally pre-registered. It has not been pre-registered, no data has been collected, and its predictions are Narrated intuitions registered so that reality can falsify them. On pre-registration the protocol and its frozen materials become published research objects here. Pre-registration requires founder approval (FD-8); when it happens, this object's status change will be a recorded Revision.