diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/resolve-references.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/resolve-references.ts
index e95659d8e..b34bff49d 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/resolve-references.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/resolve-references.ts
@@ -220,7 +220,25 @@ function lookupForSite(
         ...(site.explicitReceiver !== undefined ? { explicitReceiver: site.explicitReceiver } : {}),
       };
       const fieldHits = fieldRegistry.lookup(site.name, site.inScope, fieldOpts);
-      if (fieldHits.length > 0) return fieldHits;
+      // A BARE IDENTIFIER is not a member access. With no receiver there is no
+      // object whose `Property` this could be, so a hit on one is a false edge:
+      // in JS/TS/Python/Ruby a field read needs `this.` / `self.` / `@`, and the
+      // bare name means the nearest lexical binding instead.
+      //
+      // Observed: `class Box { baseUrl = '...'; pick() { const baseUrl = ...;
+      // return baseUrl; } }` linked the block-local read to `Box.baseUrl`,
+      // duplicating the legitimate `this.baseUrl` edge. That predates the
+      // TypeScript captures added here — JavaScript has emitted bare-identifier
+      // reads since A2 and no class fixture exercised the shadow.
+      //
+      // Callables are deliberately still reachable: `cb = save` naming a
+      // top-level function is a real bare-name reference, which is why the
+      // method/class fallbacks below are untouched.
+      const receiverlessFieldHits =
+        site.explicitReceiver === undefined
+          ? fieldHits.filter((hit) => hit.def?.type !== 'Property')
+          : fieldHits;
+      if (receiverlessFieldHits.length > 0) return receiverlessFieldHits;
       const methodHits = methodRegistry.lookup(site.name, site.inScope);
       if (methodHits.length > 0) return methodHits;
       return classRegistry.lookup(site.name, site.inScope);
diff --git a/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts b/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
index 4d6b490de..c6dfb4d07 100644
--- a/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/src/core/lbug/schema.ts
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ const ATTACHMENT_TARGET_LABELS: readonly NodeTableName[] = [
  *
  * What survives here is characteristic, not arbitrary. Almost all of it is a
  * TARGET no rule reaches — `CodeElement`, `Impl`, `Namespace`, `Template`,
- * `TypeAlias`, `Typedef`, `Union`, `Static`, `Section`, `Folder` are in neither
+ * `Typedef`, `Union`, `Static`, `Section`, `Folder` are in neither
  * `SCOPE_BRIDGE_TARGET_LABELS` nor {@link ATTACHMENT_TARGET_LABELS} — plus the
  * `Impl|*` and `Template|*` member rows (Rust `impl`/`trait` bodies, C++
  * templates), the two `Route|Process` / `Tool|Process` entry points whose
@@ -437,7 +437,6 @@ export const STRUCTURAL_PAIR_DDL = `  FROM File TO Folder,
   FROM File TO \`Union\`,
   FROM File TO \`Namespace\`,
   FROM File TO \`Impl\`,
-  FROM File TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM File TO \`Static\`,
   FROM File TO \`Template\`,
   FROM File TO Section,
@@ -445,20 +444,17 @@ export const STRUCTURAL_PAIR_DDL = `  FROM File TO Folder,
   FROM Folder TO File,
   FROM Function TO \`Template\`,
   FROM Function TO \`Namespace\`,
-  FROM Function TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM Function TO \`Impl\`,
   FROM Function TO \`Typedef\`,
   FROM Function TO \`Union\`,
   FROM Function TO CodeElement,
   FROM Class TO \`Template\`,
-  FROM Class TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM Class TO \`Impl\`,
   FROM Class TO \`Union\`,
   FROM Class TO \`Namespace\`,
   FROM Class TO \`Typedef\`,
   FROM Class TO CodeElement,
   FROM Method TO \`Template\`,
-  FROM Method TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM Method TO \`Namespace\`,
   FROM Method TO \`Impl\`,
   FROM Method TO CodeElement,
@@ -480,8 +476,6 @@ export const STRUCTURAL_PAIR_DDL = `  FROM File TO Folder,
   FROM CodeElement TO \`Property\`,
   FROM Section TO Section,
   FROM Interface TO CodeElement,
-  FROM Interface TO \`TypeAlias\`,
-  FROM \`Enum\` TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM \`Namespace\` TO \`Struct\`,
   FROM \`Impl\` TO Method,
   FROM \`Impl\` TO Function,
@@ -490,15 +484,10 @@ export const STRUCTURAL_PAIR_DDL = `  FROM File TO Folder,
   FROM \`Impl\` TO \`Trait\`,
   FROM \`Impl\` TO \`Struct\`,
   FROM \`Impl\` TO \`Impl\`,
-  FROM \`TypeAlias\` TO \`Trait\`,
-  FROM \`TypeAlias\` TO Class,
-  FROM \`TypeAlias\` TO \`Property\`,
-  FROM \`TypeAlias\` TO Method,
   FROM \`Record\` TO Method,
   FROM \`Record\` TO \`Constructor\`,
   FROM \`Record\` TO \`Property\`,
   FROM \`Constructor\` TO \`Template\`,
-  FROM \`Constructor\` TO \`TypeAlias\`,
   FROM \`Constructor\` TO \`Impl\`,
   FROM \`Constructor\` TO \`Namespace\`,
   FROM \`Constructor\` TO \`Typedef\`,
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
index 91ee4fa05..4a5d5b408 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
+++ b/gitnexus/test/fixtures/pipeline-golden/mini-repo/expected-graph.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "fixture": "mini-repo",
   "totalFileCount": 7,
   "symbols": 41,
-  "relationships": 80,
+  "relationships": 85,
   "processes": 4,
   "byType": {
     "Class": 1,
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@
     "HAS_PROPERTY": 8,
     "IMPORTS": 12,
     "MEMBER_OF": 12,
-    "STEP_IN_PROCESS": 12
+    "STEP_IN_PROCESS": 12,
+    "USES": 5
   },
-  "edgeDigest": "d617ad94554d760eb0497bf5365b7b0a2e21842ab5b16568def721b954aa1594"
+  "edgeDigest": "c55bd8307a5fccbfd23d5aa93f241e26ef0f45c1a9e57691f2bf4f6602e8e4ab"
 }
diff --git a/gitnexus/test/integration/structural-pair-coverage.test.ts b/gitnexus/test/integration/structural-pair-coverage.test.ts
index 9fad66ff8..ffa76cee0 100644
--- a/gitnexus/test/integration/structural-pair-coverage.test.ts
+++ b/gitnexus/test/integration/structural-pair-coverage.test.ts
@@ -117,21 +117,28 @@ const NON_BRIDGE_CORPUS = [
     // died on any repo containing `type X = { ... }`. Every resolver test still
     // passed, because they build an in-memory graph and never write to the DB —
     // this suite is the only place that difference shows up.
-    // `TypeAlias|Property` is the LOAD-BEARING sentinel: `TypeAlias` is on the
-    // eleven-table list this suite exists for, so no cross-product generates it.
-    // `Interface|Property` was listed alongside it and is tautological — both
-    // labels are in the SCOPE_BRIDGE cross-product, so that pair is emitted by
-    // construction and the sentinel cannot fail. Dropped rather than left to
-    // read as coverage.
+    // `TypeAlias` USED to be off the generated grid, which is why round 1 hand-
+    // declared its pairs. It is now in `LINKABLE_LABELS` (the def→graph-node
+    // bridge needs it), which makes it a SCOPE_BRIDGE source and target, so the
+    // cross-product generates these pairs and the hand declarations were
+    // removed as redundant.
+    //
+    // The sentinel is still load-bearing, for a different reason than before:
+    // it now depends on `TypeAlias` being in `LINKABLE_LABELS`. Take it out and
+    // the pair stops being generated AND the hand declaration is gone, so this
+    // fails — which is exactly the state that also silently breaks alias
+    // consumer edges. `Interface|Property` was dropped from this entry because
+    // it is tautological in the ordinary way: both labels were always in the
+    // cross-product, so nothing about it could ever fail.
     fixture: 'typescript-alias-fields',
     emitter: 'object-type alias HAS_PROPERTY',
     sentinels: ['TypeAlias|Property'],
   },
   {
-    // `TypeAlias|Method` is declared in `schema.ts` but no fixture contained a
-    // method-shaped alias member, so nothing proved it was the right pair for
-    // what is actually emitted — a declared pair that no emitter exercises is
-    // indistinguishable from a missing one until an analyze aborts on it.
+    // Nothing in the corpus contained a method-shaped alias member, so nothing
+    // proved `TypeAlias|Method` was the right pair for what is actually
+    // emitted — a pair no emitter exercises is indistinguishable from a missing
+    // one until an analyze aborts on a real repo.
     fixture: 'typescript-alias-methods',
     emitter: 'object-type alias HAS_METHOD',
     sentinels: ['TypeAlias|Method'],