# Topic

A **topic** is a concept extracted across the literature for a query, with the evidence that
supports it — the ideas behind the papers rather than the papers themselves.

## Shape

```json
{
  "object": "topic",
  "id": "top_2808be1c6d",
  "name": "SuperGLUE Benchmark",
  "description": "An extension of GLUE designed for a more challenging evaluation of language models.",
  "evidence": [
    {
      "quote": "In this paper we present SuperGLUE, a new benchmark styled after GLUE with a new set of more difficult language understanding tasks.",
      "source": {
        "type": "paper",
        "id": "pap_7hx2mv9q4t",
        "title": "SuperGLUE: A Stickier Benchmark for General-Purpose Language Understanding Systems"
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

## Evidence can be model-asserted

A topic whose evidence has `source.type: "model"` was proposed by the model without a retrieved
quote. Treat those as suggestions, not findings — and label them if you show them.

## Not to be confused with

**Search** — *search returns papers; topics return the ideas those papers are about.*
Use topics for taxonomy, gap-finding, and query expansion; use search to answer a question.

## Related

topics · searches · citation