Methodology · version 2.1 · 5 September 2026
Public records become canonical objects, observed evidence and transparent derived intelligence. This specification also states what Sentalica cannot currently observe.
Status and availability describe current ingestion—not planned capability. Last successful ingestion is operational metadata when a matching completed run is available.
PPDA Uganda · Published OCDS releases
PPDA Uganda · Public registers and accessible notices
PPDA Uganda · Public BEB notice reports
PPDA Uganda · Published statutory register
Office of the Auditor General Uganda · Web scraping of published report index via edge function
World Bank Group · World Bank Projects API v2
African Development Bank · AfDB Projects Portal API
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development · Published XLSX/PDF documents
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development · Budget transparency portal API
Uganda Registration Services Bureau · Indexed records where lawfully available
Uganda Revenue Authority · Not connected
National Social Security Fund · Not connected
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development · Access pending
PPDA Uganda · Published procurement plans
Claim state and dataset availability answer different questions. For example, a claim can be observed while its dataset is stale.
Directly present in an indexed source.
Deterministically calculated from observed evidence.
An analytical estimate, separated from observed facts.
Sentalica has not evaluated this dimension.
Required source evidence is not available.
Dataset availability: live (refreshing as expected), stale (older than expected), partial (known gaps), or unavailable (not connected).
Records resolve by official source identifier, then canonical identifier, then documented aliases and normalized names. Ambiguous matches enter a resolution queue; critical claims are never attached because names merely look similar. Publisher OCIDs are attributes of Sentalica's internal procurement UUID—not fabricated primary keys.
A supported metric discloses its formula, period, sample size, evidence count and coverage. A dimension remains Not assessed when required data is absent; no universal confidence score is substituted.
Observed edges reproduce explicit source relationships. A derived shared-director connection exists only when two observed DIRECTOR_OF edges share a person and always exposes those supporting edge IDs. Paths are bounded to three hops with cycle detection and deterministic ordering. Topology does not imply collusion, conflict, corruption or wrongdoing. Beneficial ownership is recorded only when a source explicitly classifies it.
Funding commitment, disbursement, procurement estimate, award, contract value, approved variation, certified work, payment and final actual cost are distinct facts. Contract value is not project cost; disbursement is not payment; award is not expenditure.
Public records and private applicant evidence are reconciled deterministically as match, conflict, not published, not provided or requires review. Private documents do not become canonical public evidence. Sentalica supplies evidence and does not make a lender's decision.
Monitor combines watch_items with source-backed object_events. Material events retain object, event type, timestamp, source, previous and new values, evidence reference and materiality; Dashboard and Monitor consume the same event truth rather than AI-generated urgency.
Public and private evidence remain separated. Privacy controls are designed around Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019. Where captured, source-document hashes provide an additional integrity reference for stored artifacts; hashing is not represented as universal.
Version 2.1 retired the unsupported public PCI methodology, introduced current source statuses, separated evidence state from dataset availability, and documented canonical relationships. Report a record issue or methodology correction through the data correction channel.
