# Verified test set

A set of test cases that have had correct answers verified by a subject-matter expert.

When used for evals: cases should reflect your company's real work; synthetic cases are fine when real data can't be used (common in healthcare, e.g. synthetic patient or customer records), as long as they are representative. The expert sign-off is non-negotiable: the expert owns the answer key and ideally stays involved in reviewing how evals score against it.

Also called: Golden Dataset

Kind of: Eval

Often confused with: Benchmark

Related: Regression eval

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/verified-test-set (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)