resolveIdentifiers

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Ground a batch of German legal citations against the corpus. Call this BEFORE stating any citation you did not read here. Takes the citation in the form you already hold it — including the court name, the dispositive word and the date a model normally writes around a docket. Those are stripped for you and reported back under `normalised_from` / `normalised_to`, never silently. Accepted kinds: norm citations ('§ 823 Abs. 1 BGB', '§§ 305-310 BGB', 'Art. 83 DSGVO'), Aktenzeichen ('2 C 9.22', '8 AZR 26/18'), ECLI ('ECLI:DE:BGH:2019:180619UVIIIZR247.18.0') and Fundstellen ('BVerfGE 65, 1'). Full prose citations work: 'BVerwG, Urteil vom 24.10.2023 - 2 C 9.22'. It never returns a near match. A miss comes back as `not_in_corpus` (we hold nothing and know of nothing), `attested` / `known_missing` (the decision provably EXISTS — decisions we do hold cite it by Aktenzeichen, and they are listed as the evidence — but we do not have its text), `ambiguous` (with candidates) or `unparseable`. `attested` is not a failure: you may state that the decision exists, cite it, and say the text was not available to you. What you must not do is treat it as `not_in_corpus`. A resolved norm carries `fundstelle`: the gazette citation of the authentic text, which is the citation a court accepts. Our own URL is a reading copy, and for Land law the gazette citation is the only source reference there is. Prefer it in anything you publish. `text` on a resolved norm is a 300-character stub unless you pass `include: ["text"]`, and `text_truncated` says which it is. Never verify a quotation against the stub: it is the head of the provision, not the Absatz you cited. When you supply a date that does not match the decision the docket resolves to, the result carries `date_mismatch` with the actual date. That is the hallucinated-citation case this tool exists for: cite the actual date, not the one you held.