Audits
The cheetah is the fastest land animal, timed at up to 64 mph.
Version 1. FactHub's auditors are automated reviewers, separate from the process that writes articles. Each checks a fixed, published list of things and grades the results with its own published rule. They can be wrong; an audit is not a human expert review. All auditors
Across versions
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| Version 1 | 5/5 |
First Look
A: Passes the first look: nothing obviously wrong. Minor notes may be reported as feedback without lowering the grade.
- Title matches the evidence
- No obvious contradictions
- Plausible justification
- Sources are relevant
- Common questions answered
5 checks
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Pass Title matches the evidence
The title says the cheetah is the fastest land animal, timed at up to 64 mph. The 1965 timed Kenya run averaged about 64 mph and the Botswana collar study recorded 58 mph, while the pronghorn and ostrich top out at about 55 and 43 mph.
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Pass No obvious contradictions
The finding True matches the answer, conclusion and summary. Speed figures agree across the description, key points, evidence and conclusion (64 mph, 58 mph, 28.7 and 25.9 m/s, 55 mph pronghorn, 43 mph ostrich).
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Pass Plausible justification
The conclusion explains that a hand-timed run and GPS collar measurements both place the cheetah above every rival, and that the listed qualifications do not change the ranking.
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Pass Sources are relevant
All seven sources are on topic: a Nature locomotion study, a J Exp Biol gait study, a 1997 news report on Sharp's timed run, Guinness, two Smithsonian National Zoo species pages, and an NPS pronghorn page.
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Pass Common questions answered
There are four common questions (70 mph, pronghorn faster, wild cheetahs slower, falcon or sailfish), and each response addresses its question directly.
Coverage: Read the full article JSON and the source texts supplied for wilson-2013, the-1997, gwr-cheetah, nzp-cheetah, nzp-ostrich and nps-pronghorn, and spot-checked the key takeaway quotes against them. The hudson-2012 source returned HTTP 403 with no archive, so its takeaway quotes and description could not be verified. The 1997 Sharp journal note is paywalled and not in the input. Source snapshots were used only for the cited quotes; the article's wider claims were judged on the in-text material.