Not every document fits the grid.
Careful readers disagree on some cells. No hallucination: the quotes are real, the reasoning is valid. And still they don't agree.
4 papers × 5 codebook fields
⚠ two cells where careful readers disagreed.
The paper isn't ambiguous. The codebook asked something the paper didn't answer plainly. That's the codebook's responsibility — and the codebook is what decides what to do next.
When careful readers disagree, your codebook has three moves:
Sharpen the wording. Name the threshold. Split the conjunction.
Add an upstream free-text field, giving the reader something to think about first. Often what they write settles the cell.
Allow a free-text answer. Sit with the complexity rather than forcing a premature answer.
Sometimes you sharpen. Sometimes you scaffold. Sometimes you relax. And some flags you leave, because no policy would hold.
Three craft decisions. The fourth is to leave it.