RAG Triad Evaluation (established by TruLens and Ragas frameworks) is the industry-standard modular evaluation framework that decomposes RAG into Query
Q, Retrieved Context
C, and Generated Answer
A, evaluating 3 orthogonal unsupervised quality metrics: 1) Context Relevance (evaluating the density of useful evidence in
C relative to
Q, grading retrieval precision); 2) Groundedness / Faithfulness (verifying every atomic claim in
A is strictly supported by
C, grading hallucination absence); 3) Answer Relevance (evaluating if
A directly answers
Q, grading responsiveness).