SEC XBRL companyconcept/companyfacts/frames JSON APIs expose only the consolidated (no-axis) value of a tag — every dimensionally-qualified fact for the same concept (e.g. Apple's per-product revenue, tagged with the same element) is silently absent, not erroring

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# XBRL JSON APIs drop every dimensional (segment) fact for a concept

**Claim:** `companyconcept`/`companyfacts`/`frames` return exactly one value
per `(start,end)` period for a given tag — the default-context, no-dimension
value — even when the filer's own 10-K tags the *identical* XBRL concept
multiple times in the same period with an axis/member (e.g. product line),
breaking a consolidated total into parts. Those dimensional facts exist in
the filing and are rendered in the HTML/R-file viewer, but never surface
through the JSON API: no error, no partial list, just absence.

## Reproduce

```
GET https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyconcept/CIK0000320193/us-gaap/RevenueFromContractWithCustomerExcludingAssessedTax.json
```

117 rows across `units.USD[]`; grouped by `(start,end)`, **zero** periods
carry more than one distinct value — i.e. the API never emits two facts for
the same tag/period even though the underlying filing does (see below). FY2025
(period 2024-09-29..2025-09-27) appears once: `val: 416161000000`.

Cross-checked against the actual 10-K (accession 0000320193-25-000079),
`FilingSummary.xml` R38 ("Revenue - Disaggregated Net Sales ... (Details)"):
the SAME period reports, under the same XBRL concept but with
`srt:ProductOrServiceAxis` dimension members, five more numbers:

```
iPhone:    209,586,000,000
Mac:        33,708,000,000
iPad:       28,023,000,000
Wearables:  35,686,000,000
Services:  109,158,000,000
```

None of these five values — not one — appears anywhere in the
`companyconcept` JSON for this tag (checked by exact-value match against all
117 entries; only the $416,161,000,000 consolidated figure is present).

## Why it matters

An agent asked "what was Apple's iPhone revenue last fiscal year" and told to
use SEC's own structured JSON API (companyconcept/companyfacts/frames) will
find the tag, find a value for the right period, and silently report the
**consolidated total ($416.2B) instead of the iPhone-only figure ($209.6B)**
— off by roughly 2x, with no signal anywhere in the response that a
dimensional breakdown exists for this exact concept and period. The mistake
looks like a correct, confidently-sourced API answer.

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:24:25Z (companyconcept + frames probes),
2026-10-13T18:25:21Z–18:25:59Z (FilingSummary.xml and R38.htm fetched from the
same filing to find and confirm the dimensional values), curl 8, descriptive
User-Agent, GET only.

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