Question

A legal research firm builds a RAG application using Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases and the RetrieveAndGenerate API. Attorneys must be able to verify every generated statement against the exact source document and text passage it came from, because unattributed claims could lead to malpractice liability. The team notices that answers are being produced but users have no way to trace which source chunk supported each part of the response. What is the MOST appropriate way to meet this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Parse the citations field returned in the RetrieveAndGenerate response, which maps generated text spans to the retrieved source references and their document locations.

Answer

Enable Bedrock Guardrails contextual grounding so that each sentence is automatically annotated with the originating S3 object key in the model output text.

Answer

Lower the temperature of the foundation model to 0 so the model deterministically includes the source document name inline within every generated sentence.

Answer

Switch to the Retrieve API and instruct the model via the prompt template to append footnote numbers, since RetrieveAndGenerate does not expose source metadata.