Provenance documentation alone establishes suitability: Considering provenance documentation specifically,

Provenance is context-specific; documented origins do not prove fitness when the population, source, or intended use changes.

The question

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1. The documented lineage remains historical evidence.

   Origins, transformations, and versions can remain useful historical evidence even after the intended use changes.
2. Provenance documentation alone establishes suitability for the new use. ✓

   Lineage records origins and transformations, but do not by themselves establish appropriateness, representativeness, or limitations for new customers, documents, and vendor processing.
3. The original labels can be reused without checking their meaning.

   Label meaning should be checked for the new task, but this is a labeling assumption rather than a conclusion established by provenance records.
4. The model architecture remains reproducible.

   Reproducibility of the architecture may remain unchanged, but it is not the provenance assumption challenged by the new population and vendor.

How to remember it

Provenance is context-specific; documented origins do not prove fitness when the population, source, or intended use changes.

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