Grounded response segments are the specific text spans within an AI-generated answer linked via grounding metadata to particular source URLs, allowing the Veracity Engine to calculate a fidelity score by checking only the claims attributed to that page.

sequenceDiagram
    participant LLM as AI Response
    participant Meta as Grounding Metadata
    participant Ver as Veracity Engine
    participant Web as Source Webpage
    LLM->>Meta: Segment spans with grounded claims
    Meta->>Ver: Map segment span to source URL
    Ver->>Web: Fetch page text via url_context
    Ver->>Ver: Classify claims (survived, lost, distorted)
    Ver-->>Ver: Compute Segment Fidelity Score