Crystal analyzes text and extracts entities (the individual concepts discussed in the source material), identifies the forces that characterize them along with the constraints that limit them, and provides a summary of their overall positions in the network. Entities that share the same underlying combination of forces and constraints are grouped into archetypes that reflect shared structural features. An entity that fits more than one archetype is a bridge, highlighting how separate patterns connect. Every claim traces back to a specific, viewable source.
Archetype
A recurring structural pattern; a group of entities that exhibit similar relationships between forces and constraints, even if they have nothing else in common. A gene and a fictional character can belong to the same archetype if the deeper shape of their structural role is the same.
Entity
The individual thing being analyzed. A gene, a brain region, a character; whatever the source material is actually about. Each one gets its own profile: what forces characterize it, what constrains it, and what structural role it has.
Bridge
An entity that belongs to more than one archetype; something shaped by multiple underlying patterns, rather than only one.
Force
Something actively characterizing an entity, or an active feature of it; a trait, a distinction, a motivation. The additive, "what this is" part of the identity.
Constraint
Something limiting what an entity can do or become; a boundary it can't cross, a rule it can't escape. The subtractive, "what's holding this back" part of the identity.
State Transition
A shift from one condition to another — how something in this pattern tends to move from an earlier state to a later one, and what triggers the change.
State Vector
A snapshot of an entity's condition, broken into several independent dimensions at once — not just one property, but the whole combination of where it currently stands.
Source
The original document — a paper, a book, a guide — that a piece of information was actually extracted from.
Statement vs. Evidence
A statement is Crystal's own short, plain-language restatement of a claim. Evidence is the actual sentence from the original source that the statement is drawn from, shown only when appropriate by copyright.