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The precise quantitative relation between two different measurement contexts can thus be characterized by the inner products of nonorthogonal states in that Hilbert space. Here, we use measurement outcomes that are shared by different contexts to derive specific quantitative relations between the inner products of the Hilbert space vectors that represent the different contexts. It is shown that the probabilities that describe the paradoxes of quantum contextuality can be derived from a very small number of inner products, revealing details of the fundamental relations between measurement contexts that go beyond a basic violation of noncontextual limits. The application of our analysis to a product space of two systems reveals that the nonlocality of quantum entanglement can be traced back to a local inner product representing the relation between measurement contexts in only one system. 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