{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.scaffold-q687191","code":"thing-q687191","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q687191/","name":"scaffold","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.BLT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A raised wooden platform historically built for public executions by beheading or hanging, and for public punishments, used in Europe and elsewhere; many jurisdictions ended public executions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but this was not a worldwide end to the practice, which gave rise to expressions such as going to the scaffold; the word also names temporary structures for construction work, covered under scaffolding.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the execution scaffold as a historical structure, relay its 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