diff --git a/projects/pathway-browser/src/app/model/graph/event/event.model.ts b/projects/pathway-browser/src/app/model/graph/event/event.model.ts
index 0c4fdee6b..7f0f71b08 100644
--- a/projects/pathway-browser/src/app/model/graph/event/event.model.ts
+++ b/projects/pathway-browser/src/app/model/graph/event/event.model.ts
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ import { GO_BiologicalProcess } from '../go-term/go-biological-process.model';
  * As /data/query/enhanced sends it, which leaves out what an event has none of:
  * of 15 sampled pathways one had authors, reviewers or a review status, and
  * three of 15 reactions (#344).
+ *
+ * In that answer (not /enhanced/v2) a list such as `literatureReference` can
+ * hold bare dbIds where the object was written earlier in the answer, often in
+ * the parent pathway (`eventOf`) or a preceding or following event; the types
+ * here do not say so. Dropping them loses references, as production's browser
+ * does (#760). Take an event's lists from /enhanced/v2 through JSOGDeserializer,
+ * which resolves v2's own back-references (`@ref`) to the objects they name.
  */
 export interface Event extends DatabaseObject, InDepth, HasFigure {
   stId: string;
diff --git a/tools/content-node/data-query-endpoints.ts b/tools/content-node/data-query-endpoints.ts
index 7f0adf17b..d48710d65 100644
--- a/tools/content-node/data-query-endpoints.ts
+++ b/tools/content-node/data-query-endpoints.ts
@@ -391,6 +391,17 @@ export const dataQueryEndpoints: Endpoint[] = [
      * serialiser in the request's view. The entity popup, the website's
      * content pages and the IDG panel read it.
      *
+     * Kept byte for byte as Java answers it, so it keeps a trap: an object is
+     * written in full only once, later as its bare dbId, and an event's
+     * neighbours come before its own lists: its preceding and following events,
+     * and since graph-core bb5e0ca0 (Aug 2025) its parent pathways (`eventOf`).
+     * A reference one of them also cites is therefore a bare number in the
+     * event's `literatureReference`, and a reader that keeps only objects loses
+     * it, which is #760 on production. Read an event's lists from
+     * /query/enhanced/v2 through the site's JSOGDeserializer, as the details
+     * pages do: v2 writes each object once too, with `@id`, and points back to
+     * it with `{"@ref": …}`, which the deserializer resolves.
+     *
      * Its relationships go both ways unless QueryObjectController's
      * needsIncomingRelationship says not (needsIncoming). The id is read as
      * getIdentifier reads it (inDepthId).