diff --git a/website/docs/docs/collaborate/explore-projects.md b/website/docs/docs/collaborate/explore-projects.md
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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ For a richer experience with dbt Explorer, you must:
 - Run [dbt source freshness](/reference/commands/source#dbt-source-freshness) within a job in the environment to view source freshness data.
 - Run [dbt snapshot](/reference/commands/snapshot) or [dbt build](/reference/commands/build) within a job in the environment to view snapshot details.
 
-Richer and more timely metadata will become available as dbt, the Discovery API, and the underlying dbt Cloud platform evolves.
+Richer and more timely metadata will become available as dbt Core, the Discovery API, and the underlying dbt Cloud platform evolves.
 
 ## Explore your project's lineage graph {#project-lineage}
 
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ If you don't see the project lineage graph immediately, click **Render Lineage**
 
 The nodes in the lineage graph represent the project’s resources and the edges represent the relationships between the nodes. Nodes are color-coded and include iconography according to their resource type.
 
+By default, dbt Explorer shows the project's [applied state](/docs/dbt-cloud-apis/project-state#definition-logical-vs-applied-state-of-dbt-nodes) lineage. That is, it shows models that have been successfully built and are available to query, not just the models defined in the project.
+
 To explore the lineage graphs of tests and macros, view [their resource details pages](#view-resource-details). By default, dbt Explorer excludes these resources from the full lineage graph unless a search query returns them as results.
 
 To interact with the full lineage graph, you can: