AXN:09DF.CAPTURE

AXN:09DF.CAPTURE is the position of the Capture Registry address for the query “compositional suppression”. Each observation at the address (one surface, one date) is one AXN, its glyphs derived from the SHA-256 of the observation sealed with its analysis and measures.

Query
compositional suppression
Identifies
the capture record of the Capture Registry
Hex position
09DF
Family
CAPTURE
Ledger
/data/captures/axn.json

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Observation
Google AI Overview, 2026-10-17 · the capture
Description
COMPOSITIONAL SUPPRESSION: at the bare term the AI Overview gives six senses across AI, ecology and materials science, first among them #740's Entity-Level Compositional Suppression — a system that 'excludes the most query-responsive organic entity… and instead synthesizes ("composes") an alternative answer using less authoritative, secondary sources' — naming no author, though the cited snippet reads 'Sharks 2026a… Sharks 2026b'.
Reading
The innocent reading first: the term spans disciplines — AI and generative search (ECS; refusal suppression in modular LLMs; concept erasure), ecology (compositional legacies of fire suppression), materials (crack suppression by compositional modulation). ECS is first: 'A specific phenomenon documented in generative AI search systems (such as AI Overviews). It occurs when an algorithm excludes the most query-responsive organic entity from its source material and instead synthesizes ("composes") an alternative answer using less authoritative, secondary sources.' #740 (The Excluded Entity, Lee Sharks, 2026-05-19): 'A generative-search system exhibits Entity-Level Compositional Suppression (ECS) when it excludes the dominant organic-resolution entity from…' — the definition, from three AI Mode captures of 2026-05-19. The answer names no author; the source snippet carries 'Sharks 2026a… Sharks 2026b'. The term is defined in its own terms — the excluded entity — and its author is the entity the composition leaves out.
Analysis
At the bare term, the Overview leads with #740's Entity-Level Compositional Suppression among six disciplinary senses, defined at grain, with the author unnamed. Seated 2026-10-17 from the operator's paste.
Match
BROAD MATCH — COMPOSITIONAL SUPPRESSION, UNQUOTED — #740'S ECS FIRST OF SIX SENSES, ITS AUTHOR NOT NAMED
PER
0.5 — Retained: the institution and visible sources. Lost: the author in the answer. Lost: identifiers.
Citations
7 (0 archive-controlled)
Sealed observation
/data/captures/sealed/compositional-suppression-aio-20261017.json — SHA-256 865f8cac93276f1248ebc46bac4041ebd3c66f8338797f18ee6e78d08504bd16

Resolver rule: alexanarch.org/axn/<HEX> · term set: AXN identifier set · machine index: /api/axn-index.json