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Critical Evaluation of a Context-Restricting Prompt

Consider the following prompt designed to make a language model answer questions based only on a provided data table:

You are an expert tasked with generating answers from input queries. You have been provided with a query and corresponding context information, organized in a table where each row represents a useful record. Please generate an answer using only this context information. Ensure that you provide the answer in your own words.

Critically evaluate this prompt. Identify at least one major strength and one potential weakness. Then, propose a specific modification to the prompt to address the weakness you identified.

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