Which events in a narrative text can I treat as established story-world facts, and which kinds of statement should I leave out because they are only believed, hoped, hypothetical, future or narratorial summary?

LitBank's event layer is a worked, openly readable rule for the 'story-world fact' layer: tag only events asserted as actually occurring (past/present, positive polarity, specific, in the narrative frame); believed, hypothetical, desired, future and generic events and narrator summaries outside the imagined world are not tagged. The paper reports kappa 0.813 on five texts between two co-authors and documents a hard case (narrator addressing the reader). The layer says nothing about who asserts an event or who believes it, so it supplies layer (c) only, and in Persuasion chapter 1 the annotation file shows a reported 'was married' untagged while the narrator's later 'purchased independence' is tagged (observation; reasons not documented). Curator qualifications: LitBank tags only events asserted as actually occurring in the story world (believed, hypothetical, future, generic and extradiegetic summaries excluded); kappa 0.813 on five texts between co-authors. Same-work dataset licence conflict confirmed on curator bytes. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: [rights_conflict_record] Dataset licence conflict (ShareAlike vs Attribution): no reuse of annotations until resolved. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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