0064 decision 1 says the separate call that read a date off the opening goes away. Cut 2 (#991) kept it as a fallback for documents where extraction reported no entry, which I did not make plain enough at the time.

With usage labelled by call (#996), on twenty Re-DocRED documents: sixteen took the fallback, each asking the question extraction had just answered with "none" and getting the same answer, about 940 tokens a document (2.3% of the total). On the time bench every document that states a date had it reported by extraction; the fallback never found one that was missed.

The resolver no longer calls the model for the document's date. A document whose extraction reported none has none: a relative expression in it waits at grade C and its statements carry no attestation. A date stored by the old call on a document extracted before cut 2 is still read.

Test: a_document_that_states_no_date_is_not_asked_for_one (scripted model: two requests, neither the dating prompt; the time word at grade C; no attestation).

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