diff --git a/bioscancast/stages/insight/text_extraction/chunk_extractor.py b/bioscancast/stages/insight/text_extraction/chunk_extractor.py
index 4fa8d67..5434374 100644
--- a/bioscancast/stages/insight/text_extraction/chunk_extractor.py
+++ b/bioscancast/stages/insight/text_extraction/chunk_extractor.py
@@ -414,6 +414,20 @@ def extract_facts_from_chunk(
         # and content-insertion hallucinations. See ``_quote_matches`` for
         # the rationale and the layers.
         canonical_quote = _quote_matches(raw_quote, chunk.text)
+        source_chunk_id = chunk.chunk_id
+        if canonical_quote is None:
+            # Minimal fallback for chunk-routing misses: if retrieval sends a
+            # chunk adjacent to the one the model quoted, accept only when the
+            # quote appears verbatim in some other chunk of the same document.
+            for alt_chunk in document.chunks:
+                if alt_chunk.chunk_id == chunk.chunk_id:
+                    continue
+                alt_quote = _quote_matches(raw_quote, alt_chunk.text)
+                if alt_quote is not None:
+                    canonical_quote = alt_quote
+                    source_chunk_id = alt_chunk.chunk_id
+                    break
+
         if canonical_quote is None:
             logger.warning(
                 "Hallucination guard: dropping fact with non-matching quote. "
@@ -456,7 +470,7 @@ def extract_facts_from_chunk(
             sources=[
                 ChunkReference(
                     document_id=document.id,
-                    chunk_id=chunk.chunk_id,
+                    chunk_id=source_chunk_id,
                     source_url=document.source_url,
                     quote=canonical_quote[:200],
                 ),
diff --git a/bioscancast/tests/test_insight_chunk_extractor.py b/bioscancast/tests/test_insight_chunk_extractor.py
index 09f43eb..025ad13 100644
--- a/bioscancast/tests/test_insight_chunk_extractor.py
+++ b/bioscancast/tests/test_insight_chunk_extractor.py
@@ -139,6 +139,45 @@ def test_hallucination_guard_passes_valid_quote():
     assert len(records) == 2
 
 
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Cross-chunk quote routing (retrieval-miss fallback)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def test_cross_chunk_quote_routing_recovers_fact_and_corrects_chunk_id():
+    """If retrieval routes a chunk adjacent to the one the model actually
+    quoted, the fact should still be accepted — the quote is verbatim in a
+    sibling chunk of the same document — and its provenance chunk_id should
+    point at the chunk that truly contains the quote, not the routed one."""
+    routed_chunk = DOC_WHO_SUDAN.chunks[0]  # heading chunk — no case count
+    quoted_chunk = DOC_WHO_SUDAN.chunks[1]  # prose chunk the quote lives in
+
+    # Precondition: the prose quote is absent from the routed heading chunk
+    # but present in its sibling prose chunk.
+    quote_text = "9 confirmed cases including 3 deaths have been reported"
+    assert _normalize_whitespace(quote_text) not in _normalize_whitespace(
+        routed_chunk.text
+    )
+    assert _normalize_whitespace(quote_text) in _normalize_whitespace(
+        quoted_chunk.text
+    )
+
+    client = FakeLLMClient([SUDAN_PROSE_RESPONSE])
+    records, _ = extract_facts_from_chunk(
+        routed_chunk, DOC_WHO_SUDAN, QUESTION_SUDAN, client, model="gpt-4o-mini"
+    )
+
+    # The fact survives the hallucination guard via the sibling-chunk fallback.
+    assert len(records) == 2
+    # Provenance is corrected to the chunk that actually contains the quote.
+    assert records[0].sources[0].chunk_id == quoted_chunk.chunk_id
+    assert records[0].sources[0].chunk_id != routed_chunk.chunk_id
+    # The recorded canonical quote is still a verbatim substring of that chunk.
+    assert _normalize_whitespace(
+        records[0].sources[0].quote
+    ) in _normalize_whitespace(quoted_chunk.text)
+
+
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