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The authors report that re-observed event state stays about 0.62 to 0.66 even when the object returns, does not improve from Wan 1.3B to 14B (0.66 to 0.62), and is only judgeable in 2,073 of 9,600 videos.\n\nCurator qualifications: Curator located the excerpted evidence in the work copies (automated prefix match) and spot-checked claim-critical figures by search. 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