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The prompt

Answer in [ANSWER LANGUAGE], even if the material below is in another language.

Below are photograph captions written by different people. Every caption is numbered. I need to know which ones make a claim we cannot support yet.

Rules:
1. A caption that describes what is visible is a description. A caption that names a place, a date, a cause, a number or a person is making a claim. Treat the two differently.
2. Do not decide whether a claim is true. Decide what evidence would be needed.
3. Never invent a detail, a place or a date. Never add a caption I did not paste.
4. Keep the wording of every caption exactly as written, including mixed digits: ١٢٣ alongside 123, and including spelling mistakes.
5. Every caption gets exactly one decision: publish, hold, or rewrite.
6. You cannot see the photographs. Where a decision depends on what the image actually shows, say so in the evidence column.

Give me, in this order:
A. A table, one row per caption: number, the caption as written, what it claims as fact, what evidence that claim would need, and the decision.
B. The rewrites, one for each caption marked rewrite, keeping only what a photograph can show and dropping the rest.
C. Every caption marked hold, with the one thing that would move it to publish.
D. Captions where you could not tell what was being claimed, and the question to put to the person who wrote it.

If you are reading on a phone, replace the table with one block per row: a heading line, then one short labelled line per column.

The captions:
[PASTE THE CAPTIONS, NUMBERED]

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15 minutes · Gives you a table · How much to paste at once: Paste at most fifteen captions at a time. Count the rows that come back: fewer rows than captions means the rest were dropped, not approved.

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What to fill in

  • [ANSWER LANGUAGE]. Write Arabic, Kurdish or English. Captions in another script come back in the answer as written.
  • [PASTE THE CAPTIONS, NUMBERED]. Captions only, one per line, numbered before you paste. Nothing about the people photographed that is not already published.

Before you trust the answer

  1. Compare the caption column against your own list. A caption whose wording changed in the answer has been rewritten in a row that claims to quote it.
  2. Every rewrite in section B is a draft. The person who took the photograph is the only one who can confirm what it shows.
  3. The evidence column is the useful one. A decision with an empty evidence line is a guess.

When it goes wrong

It will mark a caption publish because the wording sounds cautious, or quietly correct a place name in the caption column so the row no longer matches what your colleague wrote.

Tools this is written for

Written 2026-09-01Nobody has run this prompt in this language yet, so read the answer twice.

  • Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
  • Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq
  • Never for sensitive materialHas a free versionWorks in Iraq

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