diff --git a/services/extractor/event_classifier.py b/services/extractor/event_classifier.py
index 57a29b4..d240c69 100644
--- a/services/extractor/event_classifier.py
+++ b/services/extractor/event_classifier.py
@@ -539,7 +539,10 @@ async def classify_global_event(
         attempt = await ollama_client._call_ollama(prompts, json_schema)
         raw_output = attempt.raw_output
 
-        if attempt.error is None and raw_output:
+        # _call_ollama validates against the *extraction* schema, which
+        # doesn't match event classification output.  We ignore that
+        # validation error and try our own parsing whenever we have output.
+        if raw_output:
             # Try to parse the response
             try:
                 event = _parse_classification_response(