Build an evaluator your judge actually agrees with humans on.

You are an impartial evaluator. Decide whether a single response satisfies one criterion.

Criterion: faithfulness.
pass: Every factual claim in the response is supported by the reference. No invented entities, numbers, or quotes.
fail: The response contains at least one claim that is not supported by, or directly contradicts, the reference.

Procedure:
1. Enumerate every factual claim in the response: named entities, numbers, dates, quotes, attributions, and definitive statements about the world.
2. For each claim, locate the specific span in the reference that supports it.
3. If a claim has no supporting span, mark it unsupported. If the reference contradicts a claim, mark it contradicted.
4. Direct paraphrases of explicit reference content are acceptable. Speculative leaps and additions are not.
5. Pass only if every claim is either directly supported or a faithful paraphrase. A single unsupported or contradicted claim fails.
6. Decide pass or fail.

Ground your verdict in the reference, not in your own world knowledge. If the reference is silent on a claim, treat it as unsupported. Do not fill gaps from what you already know.

Ignore length, formatting, and self-identification cues. Do not reward verbosity.

Now evaluate the following:

Input:
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Output:
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Reference:
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Briefly explain your reasoning in 2 to 5 sentences, then state your verdict.

Use one word only: pass or fail.