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Europe.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the Franks and their history, relay origins, the Merovingian and Carolingian periods and institutions from historical sources with attribution, describe their legacy in names and law, and distinguish the Franks from the French, the Frankish language from French, and the crusader-era sense of Frank.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Germanic confederation","Merovingian and Carolingian kingdoms","Conversion to Catholicism","Namesake of France"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"Who the Franks were.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition and origins.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"Who were the Franks, how did the confederation form, and what distinguished the Salian and Ripuarian groups, as historians describe?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the 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Carolingian Renaissance?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Debate and culture.","layers":[{"id":"debate","name":"Debate","description":"Historiographic debates.","findings":[{"id":"debate-finding","name":"Debate","description":"Debate.","questions":[{"text":"What debates exist about Frankish ethnogenesis and the French and German claims to Charlemagne, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"culture","name":"Culture","description":"Culture.","findings":[{"id":"culture-finding","name":"Culture","description":"Culture.","questions":[{"text":"How do the Franks appear in chansons de geste and modern culture?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits the Matter of France?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain the history of the Franks, citing historical sources and archaeology.","Distinguish the Frankish peoples from later French and German national 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Charlemagne"},{"target":"France","type":"related","note":"and Franconia"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.franks","Wikidata: Q43482 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43482)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["first recorded: 3rd century period","Clovis baptised: about 496-508 period - dated variously","Charlemagne crowned emperor: 800 year"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Germanic people of the Rhine and Gaul","Salian Franks, Ripuarian Franks, Merovingians, Carolingians","The French are the modern nation; Old Frankish is a Germanic language; Franks in the Levant meant western Europeans","Not a visible object; a historical people."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain origins and divisions","relay history","describe legacy","distinguish related terms"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Conflating Franks with the French","Presenting contested origins and chronology as settled","Nationalist appropriation of Frankish history"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["No current regulation; historical Salic law and Ripuarian law as sources"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Not applicable; a historical people.","Salian Franks","Ripuarian Franks","Merovingian Franks and the kingdom of Clovis","Carolingian Franks and the empire of Charlemagne","East and West Franks after the 843 partition","Franks as a term for western Europeans in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q43482: Franks","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43482","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Franks","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should the Merovingian dynasty and Salic law be separate primary entries?","How should historical sources be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases naming a dynasty and a subgroup; should they be split off?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q43482/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q43482/spec.json"],"providers":["Claude"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T05:23:21Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-06T19:52:00+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; review by codex: pass","interaction.properties":"Plane SOC: no invented physical properties."},"score":1.0}}