A confident merge waits for no one, and a succession clashes with nothing

[WaylandYang]

On the Blackbaud lease bench (dev 0306d0c, two runs), the lease stayed split into several entities, so as-of questions came back with several answers. Three things held the merges that would have joined it:

• The benches turn governance off. lease_bench.py and recall.mjs set governance = false. A new base has it on (0050), so the benches measure a configuration users don't run.
• One confident pair in ten goes to a person (0026 decision 5). "Lease Agreement dated May 16, 2016, as amended" vs "Lease Agreement" was judged the same at 0.95 and held as escalate_sample.
• The execution gate's contradiction ignores time (0027 decision 5). "Lease Agreement" and "Lease Agreement dated May 16, 2016" each hold one landlord, HPBB1 and then BBHQ1: a succession. The gate called it contradiction landlord and held the pair every run. The consistency check has read time since Two values clash only while both hold #635; the gate never followed.

Decided (2026-09-14): governance stays on in the benches, the sample is removed, and a contradiction is two values that still hold at the same moment once the temporal engine places them.