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The pipeline drops the long and low
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Claim (verbatim)
The pipeline drops the long and low. Tang verse reached the Quan Tang shi through a metropolitan pipeline of court-adjacent anthologies and collected-works editions whose filters were register and excerptability; the Dunhuang cave preserves what actually circulated on northwestern ground. So the verse present at Dunhuang but absent from the QTS should differ from the verse present in both in a measurable, directional way — longer, lower-register, more narrative — the pipeline's rejection profile made visible, rather than any difference of quality or fame.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Partition Dunhuang-attested Tang-era verse into (a) also transmitted in the Quan Tang shi and (b) absent from it. Primary clause (verdict follows it): median poem length in class (b) is at least twice that of class (a). Secondary: class (b) shows a higher rate of vernacular function words and a lower rate of regulated-verse tonal compliance than class (a), with both differences in the stated direction.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Kill: the Quan Tang shi electronic corpus crossed with the published corpora of Dunhuang verse (the collected editions of Dunhuang poems and popular songs; the manuscripts themselves imaged on IDP).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated by a fresh Fable-tier instance (claude-fable-5) at maximum effort with generation-first blindness (no repo reads, no web searches, no DB queries); 248-title list supplied at launch, titles only, no verdicts/dossiers seen; prompt pre-committed in docs/generated/conjectures_1001_wave_ledger.md and docs/generated/conjecture_fresh_fable_w04_prompt_20260708.txt. Wave W04 of docs/GOAL_CONJECTURES_1001_CAMPAIGN_20260708.md. Novelty unverified by construction. An output-token limit interrupted the first response turn before any tool call was made; the packet was still produced in a single Write with no information ingress.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
The contrast between Dunhuang-preserved popular verse (Wang Fanzhi corpus, long vernacular narrative poems) and the metropolitan transmission behind the QTS is a standard theme, anticipating the direction; the paired length/register/tonal-compliance statistics on the two partitions are un-run.
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