diff --git a/src/explanation/comparison-to-provenance-systems.md b/src/explanation/comparison-to-provenance-systems.md
index 0de51bbd..74b3c13f 100644
--- a/src/explanation/comparison-to-provenance-systems.md
+++ b/src/explanation/comparison-to-provenance-systems.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Two properties follow:
   cascades to the results derived from it, so the graph always reflects the data
   as it currently is.
 
-This is the same guarantee the reproducibility contract describes: every row is
+This is the same property the reproducibility contract describes: every row is
 traceable to the declared inputs it was computed from.
 
 ## Complementary and orthogonal