Card: drop fr tag (en-only corpus, <1% FR prose noted), add registration≠effect / absence≠inactivity limitation (commit 459a9f4)

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 pretty_name: Ontario Lobbying & MPP Disclosure Graph (oico-dd structured projection)
 language:
   - en
-  - fr
 tags:
   - government
   - lobbying
@@ -236,41 +235,48 @@ in the OICO source, and it is scope-limited and tiered:
    topics." It is not evidence a meeting occurred, that anyone was contacted,
    or that anything was influenced. Subject matters and techniques are
    self-classified by the registrant.
-2. **Co-occurrence is not causation.** "Lobbying targeted riding X while MPP Y
+2. **Registration ≠ effect, and absence ≠ inactivity.** A registration in this
+   data records intent to lobby; it does not indicate the lobbying succeeded
+   or that any outcome followed. Conversely, the absence of a registration
+   does not mean no lobbying occurred — unregistered lobbying exists and is
+   itself a separate compliance violation, invisible to a registry-based
+   dataset. Both directions limit what can be inferred from presence or
+   absence here.
+3. **Co-occurrence is not causation.** "Lobbying targeted riding X while MPP Y
    held it and MPP Y disclosed an interest in Z" is three facts about public
    filings, not a narrative. This dataset must not be used to allege
    wrongdoing; lobbying and disclosure are the *compliance* mechanisms working
    as designed.
-3. **Active-set lower bound.** See [Provenance](#provenance): historical
+4. **Active-set lower bound.** See [Provenance](#provenance): historical
    counts are lower bounds; de-registered filings are absent.
-4. **PDS lists interests, not amounts.** MPP disclosures are
+5. **PDS lists interests, not amounts.** MPP disclosures are
    interest-presence prose (with limited exceptions, no dollar values). "MPP X
    holds an interest in Y" is supportable; "MPP X owns $N" is not.
    Cross-year changes reflect disclosure changes, not necessarily economic
    ones. Disclosure free text is exported verbatim (`*_text` columns);
    structured interest→organization edges were deliberately **not** extracted
    (an NLP pass with its own error rate — deferred).
-5. **The targets grain trap.** `registration_targets` is RAW-mention grain:
+6. **The targets grain trap.** `registration_targets` is RAW-mention grain:
    the same (registration, target, subject_type) repeats across lobbying
    activities within one filing. **Always `DISTINCT` over
    `registration_no` (and `subject_type` if relevant) before counting.**
    `target_row_count` in `government_bodies` is raw-mention count, not
    registration count.
-6. **HELD_BY is parliament-level.** Term dates come from the OLA roster at
+7. **HELD_BY is parliament-level.** Term dates come from the OLA roster at
    parliament granularity; by-election parliaments are multi-holder and
    tier-marked `ambiguous` (see Methodology).
-7. **Name-bridge tiers are load-bearing.** Any cross-source person claim must
+8. **Name-bridge tiers are load-bearing.** Any cross-source person claim must
    filter the relevant tier columns to `confirmed` (and should state the tier
    either way). `probable` links are name-only matches.
-8. **Self-reported sources.** The Integrity Commissioner reviews filings for
+9. **Self-reported sources.** The Integrity Commissioner reviews filings for
    completeness, not truthfulness.
-9. **Known warts, kept honestly.** A small number of mojibake-era name twins
+10. **Known warts, kept honestly.** A small number of mojibake-era name twins
    survive as separate entities (e.g. one registration carrying both
    `Matthew Dubé` and `Matthew Dubé` as filer aliases resolved to two
    entities, ≈13 registrations affected); merging them automatically would
    violate the review discipline, so they remain split (under-merge by
    design). A handful of riding string variants likewise remain uncollapsed.
-10. **Resolution decisions are auditable, not infallible.** Match methods,
+11. **Resolution decisions are auditable, not infallible.** Match methods,
     review flags, and corroboration signals are exported so a third party can
     check any call.
 
@@ -306,7 +312,9 @@ graph projection): `person:slug:{member_slug}` / `person:ent:{entity_id}`,
 `riding_id`; registrations use the registry's own `registration_no`.
 
 Dates are ISO `YYYY-MM-DD` strings (NULL where the source omits them);
-timestamps are ISO-8601 UTC. `*_norm` columns are deterministic
+timestamps are ISO-8601 UTC. Free-text fields are predominantly English; a
+small fraction of filings (<1% of rows, mostly francophone organizations'
+`goal_text` / `client_business`) contain French prose, kept verbatim. `*_norm` columns are deterministic
 lowercase/whitespace normalizations used as join keys upstream — they are not
 display names.
 
@@ -380,7 +388,7 @@ Bill, Regulation, Policy/Program, …) with free-text `goal_text`. Columns:
 `subject_row_id`, `registration_no`, `subject_kind`, `subject_type`,
 `subject_text`, `subject_norm`, `goal_text`, `source`.
 
-**`registration_targets`** — ⚠ RAW-mention grain (limitation 5): one row per
+**`registration_targets`** — ⚠ RAW-mention grain (limitation 6): one row per
 target mention per lobbying activity. `target_kind` ∈ `mpp` (riding-office;
 resolves to `riding_id`), `ministry`, `ministers_office`, `agency` (resolve
 to `govbody_id`), `other_institution` (kept verbatim, no resolved ref).
@@ -460,7 +468,7 @@ source](#the-one-assertion-beyond-the-sources-minister-portfolios)):
 `match_method`, `reviewed`, `review_note`, `source`.
 
 **`held_by`** — one row per (riding, person, parliament) holding;
-by-election parliaments emit multiple rows marked `ambiguous` (limitation 6).
+by-election parliaments emit multiple rows marked `ambiguous` (limitation 7).
 `term_end` NULL = ongoing. Columns: `held_by_id`, `riding_id`, `riding_raw`,
 `member_slug`, `person_id`, `parliament_number`, `term_start`, `term_end`,
 `term_start_raw`, `term_end_raw`, `ambiguous`, `confidence_tier`, `source`.
@@ -470,7 +478,7 @@ by-election parliaments emit multiple rows marked `ambiguous` (limitation 6).
 **`disclosures`** — one row per disclosure FILING EVENT, grain
 (mpp, year, as_of_date) — an MPP can file twice in a year (by-election +
 year-end), and both rows coexist. Interest panels are verbatim free text
-(limitation 4). Columns: `disclosure_id`, `person_id`, `mpp_id`, `mpp_name`,
+(limitation 5). Columns: `disclosure_id`, `person_id`, `mpp_id`, `mpp_name`,
 `riding_raw`, `year`, `as_of`, `as_of_date`, `income_text`, `assets_text`,
 `liabilities_text`, `gifts_text`, `offices_text`, `spouse_income_text`,
 `spouse_assets_text`, `spouse_liabilities_text`, `person_resolution_tier`,
@@ -501,11 +509,11 @@ in_term = hits[
     (hits.initial_filing_date >= hits.term_start)
     & (hits.term_end.isna() | (hits.initial_filing_date <= hits.term_end))
 ]
-n = in_term.registration_no.nunique()   # DISTINCT — limitation 5
+n = in_term.registration_no.nunique()   # DISTINCT — limitation 6
 ```
 
 The result is a count of *registrations declaring intent to lobby that
-office during that tenure* — a lower bound (limitation 3), not a contact log
+office during that tenure* — a lower bound (limitation 4), not a contact log
 (limitation 1).
 
 ## Reproducibility