Clarify NPC mention eligibility

docs/integrations/dnd-npc-occurrence-artifacts.md

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ The required normalized [NPC registry artifact](dnd-npc-registry-artifacts.md) r
 the exact `{npc_id, name}` pair. Unknown IDs and names that do not match their
 ID are rejected; normalization does not repair names by similarity. Registry
 references are provenance only and never replace an occurrence's own evidence.
+The registry may include an identity established by a factual third-party
+mention; that provenance alone does not create a `mentioned` occurrence. Each
+occurrence remains a separately cited fact in the current transcript.
 Normalization validates the exact pair, orders and
 deduplicates exact source references, then orders occurrences by valid source
 chronology, NPC comparison identity, display name, kind, and reference sequence.

docs/integrations/dnd-npc-registry-artifacts.md

@@ -68,10 +68,16 @@ descriptor.
 ## Scope and consumers
 
 Only individually identifiable NPC names with transcript evidence belong in
-this artifact. Groups, generic roles, invented labels, and descriptive
-enrichment are excluded. Its source references prove registry provenance; they
-do not become evidence for a spell, occurrence, combat, or enemy-event
-occurrence.
+this artifact. A factual third-party mention can establish an identity even if
+the NPC is not present, speaking, or acting in the cited passage. Names used
+only in hypothetical, speculative, or imagined examples are excluded, as are
+groups, generic roles, invented labels, and descriptive enrichment. Its source
+references prove registry provenance; they do not become evidence for a spell,
+occurrence, combat, or enemy-event occurrence.
+
+Registry evidence establishes an identity, not an [NPC occurrence](dnd-npc-occurrence-artifacts.md).
+That later artifact independently records any current-transcript occurrence
+with its own cited evidence and category.
 
 This registry can ground actor or caster names in the [spell](dnd-spell-artifacts.md)
 and [combat-turn](dnd-combat-turn-artifacts.md) artifacts. It is required to

docs/internal/dnd.md

@@ -168,11 +168,11 @@ checkpoint fingerprint.
 | Lane | Intentional behavior |
 | --- | --- |
 | Spells | May use a spell-catalog overlay and optional NPC grounding; the catalog validator supplies domain-specific semantic checks. |
-| NPC registry | Does not consume an NPC registry. Its normalizer is the LLM-assisted reconciliation exception described above. |
+| NPC registry | Establishes transcript-grounded NPC identities, including factual third-party mentions, without assigning occurrence categories. It does not consume an NPC registry, and its normalizer is the LLM-assisted reconciliation exception described above. |
 | Combat turns | Requires a scene-description artifact. It calls the LLM only for an exact `combat` classification; exact non-combat classifications return an accepted empty result, while missing or mismatched classifications return an empty result with a bounded warning. Optional NPC grounding never becomes evidence. |
 | Item occurrences | Requires the normalized item registry for exact ID/name grounding at extraction and normalization. Campaign context may disambiguate, but the registry never becomes occurrence evidence. |
 | Item registry | Produces source-grounded item types and unique designations. Its LLM-assisted reconciliation is proposal-only, preserves distinct currency denominations and item types, and does not create per-instance identities. |
-| NPC occurrences | Requires the normalized NPC registry at extraction and normalization, using it for canonical actor grounding only. |
+| NPC occurrences | Requires the normalized NPC registry at extraction and normalization, using it for canonical actor grounding only. It separately emits cited current-transcript occurrence facts, including `mentioned`, rather than deriving them from registry provenance. |
 | Scene descriptions | Produces the classifications consumed by combat routing; it does not consume an NPC registry or provide evidence for combat artifacts. |
 | Enemy events | Requires NPC, scene-description, combat-turn, and NPC-occurrence artifacts. It calls the LLM only for an exact `combat` classification, records ordered observations rather than terminal state, and normalizes recognized names through the NPC registry while preserving grounded collective labels. |
 | Location registry | Produces a source-anchored, session-scoped registry from stable proper names or unique in-world designations. Its LLM-assisted reconciliation is proposal-only and never collapses same-name places without validated identity and evidence rules. |