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Explainable results

When the AI finds a film it can't just hand back a result — it has to say why this one. Every result card carries a one-line explanation, so an editor can tell at a glance whether to trust it, and can explain to a colleague why it's being recommended.

The line on every result card

matches [music][american] · semantic+guess+literal

Read it in two halves:

First half — which of your conditions it hit: [music][american] are the dimensions from your query this film matched at once (e.g. genre, region). Dimensions it didn't match aren't tacked on.

Second half — how it was found: three sources, which can co-occur:

MarkMeaning
semanticpulled in by closeness in meaning (even if the wording differs)
guessthe AI imagined "what the ideal film looks like," and this one matched that guess
literalyour query words appear directly in the title / plot

Why this helps editors

  • Decide whether to trust it: "only via guess, matched no conditions" is a signal to stay skeptical.
  • Explain it out loud: a concrete basis for "why this film," not "the system said so."
  • Catch problems: when results look off, this line points straight at which route misfired (see Debugging log).

More: how tags are kept from being invented and how editors review them → Auto-tagging; how it stays honest when nothing matches → Honest match.