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manufacturing and pitch standards such as A440"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Music, signalling and ceremony.","B flat and C trumpets","piccolo and D or E flat trumpets","fanfare, herald and Aida trumpets","natural and baroque trumpets","rotary valve trumpets","pocket and bass trumpets","traditional trumpets such as the Persian sur"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q8338: trumpet","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8338","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Trumpet","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should natural trumpet and piccolo trumpet be separate entries?","How should organological references be linked?","The registry entry has merged aliases naming variants and unclear terms; should they be split off?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q8338/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q8338/spec.json"],"providers":["Claude"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T01:30:35Z","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":"filled","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 2026-10-06T19:52:02+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; review by codex: pass"},"score":1.0}}