Materialized View having UNKNOWN staleness - Oracle 11G - oracle

I am working on Oracle 11G.
One of my Materialized view has become UNKNOWN (MY_MAT_VW1). You can check the output of the ALL_MVIEWS below.
OWNER | MVIEW_NAME | CONTAINER_NAME | QUERY | QUERY_LEN | UPDATABLE | UPDATE_LOG | MASTER_ROLLBACK_SEG | MASTER_LINK | REWRITE_ENABLED | REWRITE_CAPABILITY | REFRESH_MODE | REFRESH_METHOD | BUILD_MODE | FAST_REFRESHABLE | LAST_REFRESH_TYPE | LAST_REFRESH_DATE | STALENESS | AFTER_FAST_REFRESH | UNKNOWN_PREBUILT | UNKNOWN_PLSQL_FUNC | UNKNOWN_EXTERNAL_TABLE | UNKNOWN_CONSIDER_FRESH | UNKNOWN_IMPORT | UNKNOWN_TRUSTED_FD | COMPILE_STATE | USE_NO_INDEX | STALE_SINCE | NUM_PCT_TABLES | NUM_FRESH_PCT_REGIONS | NUM_STALE_PCT_REGIONS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MY_DB | MY_MAT_VW1 | MY_MAT_VW1 | select.. | 6728 | N | | | | N | GENERAL | DEMAND | COMPLETE | IMMEDIATE | NO | COMPLETE | 14-Nov-16 | UNKNOWN | NA | N | Y | N | N | N | N | VALID | N | 0 | | |
MY_DB | MY_MAT_VW2 | MY_MAT_VW2 | select.. | 7074 | N | | | | N | TEXTMATCH | DEMAND | COMPLETE | IMMEDIATE | NO | COMPLETE | 13-Nov-16 | FRESH | NA | N | N | N | N | N | N | FRESH | N | 0 | 0 | |
The queries for the materialized view contain complex joins between multiple tables, inline views and unions.
As per my understanding (UNKNOWN_PLSQL_FUNC column) I guess there is a PLSQL Function which is causing the staleness to become UNKNOWN. However I am not sure which one.
I tried re-compiling and refreshing it but no luck.
Can anyone provide me some information on how to detect the root cause and make sure it does not become UNKNOWN again.
Also is there any implication of it on the data stored within it?
Below is just a sample I've created to replicate the scenario.
SELECT * FROM ENTITY_T;
ID | ENTITY_TYPE | FIRST_NAME | LAST_NAME | LEGAL_NAME
--------------------------------------------------
1 | INDIVIDUAL | JOHN | LESSEN |
2 | INDIVIDUAL | ROSAN | MEL |
3 | CORP | SIGMA | | SIGMA CORPORATION
--Function to get name base upon type
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION GET_NAME (P_ID IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2
DETERMINISTIC
AS
LV_NAME VARCHAR2(200);
BEGIN
SELECT CASE ENTITY_TYPE WHEN 'INDIVIDUAL' THEN FIRST_NAME ||' '|| LAST_NAME
WHEN 'CORP' THEN LEGAL_NAME
ELSE 'NONE'
END INTO LV_NAME
FROM ENTITY_T
WHERE ID=P_ID;
RETURN LV_NAME;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
RETURN 'NO ID FOUND';
WHEN OTHERS THEN
RETURN 'OTHER ERROR';
END;
--Materialized view creation
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW TEST_MV
AS
SELECT ID,ENTITY_TYPE,GET_NAME(ID) NAME
FROM ENTITY_T;
SELECT MVIEW_NAME,STALENESS,AFTER_FAST_REFRESH,UNKNOWN_PLSQL_FUNC,COMPILE_STATE,STALE_SINCE
FROM ALL_MVIEWS WHERE MVIEW_NAME='TEST_MV';
MVIEW_NAME | STALENESS | AFTER_FAST_REFRESH | UNKNOWN_PLSQL_FUNC | COMPILE_STATE | STALE_SINCE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEST_MV | UNKNOWN | NA | Y | VALID |

The Oracle Issue/Doc ID 757537.1 mentioned by JSapkota states clearly, that this is not a bug, but correct/expected behaviour:
STALENESS of the mview, refering to PL/SQL function is set to UNKOWN
as one cannot determine PL/SQL function changes. Current behaviour is
correct as per the design & code.
I guess using DETERMINISTIC functions instead of the default scope could prevent it.

As per the My Oracle Support this could be a bug(7582462).
As there is no solution to this bug, you have to deal with fact that staleness will show unknown, or not use functions on Materialized View definition.
Reference:DBA_MVIEWS Shows STALENESS Value of UNKNOWN After Refresh (Doc ID 757537.1)

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