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Retrieved document

As explained in Building Reliable AI Systems

Information selected from an external knowledge source and supplied to a model as response context.

A retrieved document is information selected from a knowledge base and supplied to a model as context. In a RAG flow, the retriever searches for information relevant to the user’s query, then the generator receives both and produces a response incorporating the retrieved context. section 3.2.3

Grounding responses in retrieved evidence can mitigate hallucinations by giving the model information beyond its parametric memory. Relevant background can also frame a chatbot’s domain, such as electronics e-commerce. section 3.3 section 2.6.2

How Building Reliable AI Systems covers it

How deep it goes
Traces query-based retrieval and context use, without detailing retrieval or generation internals.
Examples
Uses an electronics e-commerce chatbot to illustrate domain background as relevant context.
What you can do after
Understand how retrieved information can ground a generated response in evidence.
How it connects
Connects retrieved documents to retrieval-augmented generation and hallucination mitigation.

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