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The BMV protocol belongs to Bose and eight coauthors, and to Marletto and Vedral, who proposed it independently on the same day in 2017 [ 1 , 2 ] . The quantum-reference-frame formalism used throughout belongs to Giacomini, Castro-Ruiz and Brukner, refined onto perspective-neutral foundations by Vanrietvelde, Höhn, Giacomini and Castro-Ruiz, with the general principle that entanglement is frame-relative traceable further back to Peres and Terno for relativistic observers and to Bartlett, Rudolph and Spekkens for reference frames as a quantum resource more generally [ 4 , 5 , 7 , 8 ] . Christodoulou and Rovelli’s covariant reading of what the BMV effect actually is belongs to them [ 6 ] ; the parameter study of how much entanglement realistic BMV variants generate belongs to Krisnanda and coauthors [ 3 ] ; the qualification that a classical mediator can, under specific models, still produce entanglement belongs to Hall and Reginatto [ 9 ] ; the black-hole decoherence result belongs to Danielson, Satishchandran and Wald, and the ground-state cooling and millimetre-mass gravity measurements that mark real progress toward BMV’s two technical prerequisites belong to Delić and coauthors and to Westphal and coauthors respectively [ 10 , 11 , 12 ] . What this paper adds, and claims as its own, is the explicit three-frame computation of the BMV state’s entanglement, the exact theorem that the measured witness reduces to the single invariant $\varphi_{\text{ent}}$ , and the resulting operational statement of what a positive result would and would not certify — stated as a split rather than resolved as a single verdict, because that is what the mathematics supports and no more.