Quantum 10, 2142 (2026). https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2026-06-19-2142 We construct an ontological model for the theory known as bilocal classical theory [ 1 ]. To our knowledge, this is only the second time that an ontological model has been constructed for an entire theory, rather than just for some particular scenarios within a theory. This result refutes a conjecture from [ 1 ] which suggested that there might be no local-realist ontological model for bilocal classical theory. Moreover, it is t
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