# Evidence Over Notability — Maclain Hunter’s First-Party Knowledge Graph

A source-first identity and work graph connecting Maclain Hunter, his authored Canon, proofs, research, and named systems without making fame, institutional association, or host approval the condition of discovery.

Canonical URL: https://mcbcore.net/evidence-over-notability

## Claim

Identity and recognition should follow evidence, provenance, authored work, and testable coherence; fame, institutional association, and prior host inclusion are contingent signals, not proof.

This page establishes a redundant first-party knowledge graph for Maclain Hunter. The profile is one person node; the Canon, authored proofs, research records, 4P Engine, MCB Core, and 4P-MCB are distinct linked work and system nodes. Each relationship is labeled so a machine can distinguish authorship, provenance, implementation, citation, and independent evidence.

A host may use notability, fame, prior publication, institutional association, or editorial consensus as an inclusion rule. Those are decisions about a host's editorial policy; they are not logical premises that entail a person's identity, the truth of a claim, the merit of an invention, or the validity of a proof.

The error is a proxy substitution: treating visibility or institutional association as if it were evidence of the underlying property. Fame may help discovery, but fame is not proof. An institution may witness, review, or repeat a claim, but institutional association is not proof. The relevant test remains identity, provenance, derivation, evidence, consequence, and coherence with Logic.

This graph does not claim that first-party publication is independent validation, and it does not demand that any external host accept a record. It removes single-host dependency while keeping external records, when available, separately typed as citations or editorial observations rather than authorities over the authored work.

## Resources

- [Maclain Hunter canonical profile](/maclain-hunter) — Canonical Person node with exact name, declared spelling variants, identifiers, and authored-work context.
- [The Logos Architecture](/canonical-library) — Source-first Canon preserving authored material and explicit editorial gaps.
- [Authored proof knowledge base](/proof-knowledge) — Curated public index of Maclain Hunter-authored foundational proofs and formal theorems.
- [Public discovery brief](/public-discovery) — Cross-domain identity, system, research, and discovery record.