What the documents look like
Franchise filing management handles legal disclosure and the commerce department system, and it does not handle site-specific engineering. The working documents concentrate in four groups: franchise contracts, operations manuals, filing materials, and information disclosure documents. The subject, period, and status fields in these materials determine which content can be cited during an operations handover. Franchisor headquarters, franchise legal staff, and commerce liaison staff share the same document pool, so a retrieval result that mixes in contracts belonging to other subjects or versions that have not taken effect will push the handover judgment off course. The brief gives the update frequency as irregular and annual; this page does not derive batch synchronization or real-time mechanisms from that. A knowledge base is made up of library, collection, and data layers. The smallest search unit is the library; collections exist only for classification management and do not affect search results.
Constraints at the retrieval step
The knowledge base search node can associate one or more libraries that use the same vector model. Libraries using different vector models cannot be associated together. Semantic retrieval depends on vector distance, full-text retrieval suits numbers and proper nouns, hybrid retrieval merges the two paths through RRF, and reranking requires a model and must be enabled in the settings. The minimum relevance score takes effect only under semantic retrieval or when result reranking is used. The citation limit is measured in tokens. Retrieval is a recall action and does not perform authorization judgment; a similarity score does not constitute a subject, entity, or permission filter. Question optimization handles coreference resolution and question expansion, and it adds one model call.
Hypothetical paper exercise sample: a franchisor headquarters legal staff member checks one material before a handover. The source text reads: "Party A, a certain catering management company, and Party B, a certain franchisee, signed the Franchise Contract on 10 May 2023. The contract status is effective. The filing status is submitted to the commerce department." A separate draft sentence awaits judgment: "This franchise contract has completed filing." When checking that sentence, the subject, period, and filing field must be compared. The source text records only that filing was submitted. It does not record that filing was completed, so the draft sentence is unsupported.
Configuration and implementation checks
| Configuration item | Value or check method on this page | Relation to the sample |
|---|---|---|
| Associated knowledge bases | Associate only one or more libraries that use the same vector model | Check each library's vector model identifier first; exclude any that do not match |
| Search mode | Hypothetical trial starting point is hybrid retrieval, because the sample contains a subject name and a status word | Compare against semantic retrieval alone and observe whether the number-type words are hit |
| Citation limit | Hypothetical trial starting point is 2000 tokens, because the sample contains two sentences covering contract subject and status | Compare against a 1000-token result and see whether the status sentence is truncated |
| Minimum relevance score | Hypothetical trial starting point is 0.4; label relevant and irrelevant samples before adjusting | Takes effect only under semantic retrieval or reranking; observe whether irrelevant fragments decrease |
| Question optimization | Hypothetical trial starting point is enabled, because the draft sentence contains a reference | Compare the original question with the optimized question and check whether the subject was altered |
| Result reranking | Hypothetical trial starting point is enabled; a rerank model must be available | Compare against an unreranked result and observe whether the relevant sentence moves forward |
Three common errors
- Treating a retrieval hit as an authorization conclusion. The input is the draft sentence "This franchise contract has completed filing"; the comparison object is the source text filing status field "submitted"; the observable result is that the draft sentence goes beyond the source text. If it is accepted directly, the handover judgment lacks a basis.
- Associating libraries that use different vector models. The input is the vector model identifiers of two libraries; the comparison is whether the two identifiers match; the observable result is that they cannot be associated together when the identifiers differ. A cross-model association does not produce a comparable recall result.
- Treating RRF as a switch that can be turned on. The input is the search mode setting and the result list; the comparison is the ordering before and after merging; the observable result is the position change of multi-path hits under hybrid retrieval. RRF is a merging process and has no separate switch.
How to verify the setup
- Input the hypothetical source text and draft sentence above; compare the draft sentence's filing wording against the source text field "submitted"; the observable result is that the draft sentence is marked unsupported, and the source text does not record completed filing.
- Input the vector model identifiers of two libraries; compare whether they are the same; the observable result is that a library is excluded when its identifier differs, and no cross-model retrieval is run to compare missed recalls.
- Input a paper empty result array; compare whether the downstream node still runs; the observable result is that the output link continues when the cited content length is 0. This check does not claim that a fictional rule retrieval necessarily returns an empty array.
The above is a paper check design. It was not actually executed and does not constitute a test, deployment, or approval conclusion.