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    "model": {
        "rank": 16046,
        "code": "thing-q1076557",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.religion-in-africa",
        "name": "religion in Africa",
        "purpose": "Let an agent describe religion in Africa with demographic and regional information from sources, present the history of religious change with attribution, describe traditional religions respectfully, and route to entries for specific countries and traditions.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Society, people and institutions",
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        "domain": "SOC.ORG",
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        "version": "",
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        "score": 33,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "Christianity in Africa",
                "Islam in Africa",
                "religion in Cameroon",
                "Hinduism in Africa",
                "Bahá'í Faith in Africa",
                "Buddhism in Africa",
                "religion in the Maghreb",
                "Christianity in Cameroon",
                "Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon",
                "Islam in Algeria",
                "Islam in Sudan",
                "Islam in Libya",
                "Islam in Senegal",
                "Islam in Egypt",
                "Islam in Mali",
                "Catholic Church in Africa",
                "Christianity in the Maghreb",
                "Eastern Orthodoxy in Africa",
                "Coptic Orthodox Church in Africa",
                "P'ent'ay",
                "Islam in the Maghreb",
                "religion in Western Sahara",
                "Roman Catholic Church in Eritrea",
                "Jehovah's Witnesses in Cameroon",
                "Eastern Orthodoxy in Cameroon",
                "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cameroon",
                "Catholic Church in Western Sahara",
                "Christianity in Western Sahara",
                "Eastern Orthodoxy in Sub-Saharan Africa"
            ],
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            "merged": 29,
            "knownIn": 33,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q1076557",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1076557",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T23:20:25Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q1076557",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.religion-in-africa",
                "name": "religion in Africa",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "SOC.ORG"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1076557/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.religion-in-africa",
                "name": "religion in Africa",
                "purpose": "Let an agent describe religion in Africa with demographic and regional information from sources, present the history of religious change with attribution, describe traditional religions respectfully, and route to entries for specific countries and traditions.",
                "definition": "The religious landscape of the African continent, in which Christianity and Islam are each followed by hundreds of millions, traditional African religions persist and blend with them, and smaller communities practise Hinduism, Judaism, the Bahai Faith and Buddhism; religion in Africa varies by region, with Islam concentrated in the north, Sahel and coasts and Christianity in the south and centre, and is studied by country, as in Cameroon, and by tradition.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a regional religious landscape.",
                "affordances": [
                    "relay demographics by region with sources",
                    "describe traditions with attribution",
                    "present history of religious change",
                    "route to specific countries and traditions"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Rapid religious change",
                    "Regional patterns",
                    "Traditional religion and blending",
                    "Growth of African churches"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; churches, mosques, shrines and practices across the continent.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Religions practised across Africa",
                    "Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and minority faiths",
                    "Religion in specific countries has its own entries"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "Christians",
                        "typical_range": "about 700 million",
                        "unit": "people",
                        "note": "estimates"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Muslims",
                        "typical_range": "about 500 million",
                        "unit": "people",
                        "note": "estimates"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Christianity in Africa including African independent churches",
                    "Islam in Africa across Sunni, Sufi and other traditions",
                    "traditional African religions",
                    "Hinduism, Judaism, the Bahai Faith and Buddhism in Africa",
                    "religion by country such as Cameroon"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "religion on the Earth",
                        "why": "in registry terms, by region"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Christianity in Africa",
                        "why": "a major component"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "Islam in Africa",
                        "why": "a major component"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "traditional African religion",
                        "why": "the indigenous traditions"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Constitutional freedom of religion provisions by country",
                    "Census standards for religion where collected",
                    "African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Treating Africa as uniform",
                    "Disrespectful treatment of traditional religions",
                    "Unsourced figures",
                    "Presenting contested episodes as settled"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "overview",
                        "name": "Overview",
                        "description": "The religious landscape.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "demography",
                                "name": "Demography",
                                "description": "Demography.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "demography-finding",
                                        "name": "Demography",
                                        "description": "Demography.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are religions distributed across African regions and countries, with sources?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about the continent or a specific country with its own entry?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "traditions",
                                "name": "Traditions",
                                "description": "Traditions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "traditions-finding",
                                        "name": "Traditions",
                                        "description": "Traditions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What traditions are practised, and how do they interact and blend, with attribution?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific tradition?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History of religious change.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "spread",
                                "name": "Spread",
                                "description": "Spread of Christianity and Islam.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "spread-finding",
                                        "name": "Spread",
                                        "description": "Spread.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Christianity and Islam spread in Africa, from antiquity through trade, missions and colonialism, as historians describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "traditional",
                                "name": "Traditional",
                                "description": "Traditional religions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "traditional-finding",
                                        "name": "Traditional",
                                        "description": "Traditional.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are traditional African religions practised and understood, in the terms of practitioners and scholars?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation respectful and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "society",
                        "name": "Society",
                        "description": "Religion and society.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "politics",
                                "name": "Politics",
                                "description": "Religion and politics.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "politics-finding",
                                        "name": "Politics",
                                        "description": "Politics.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do religion and politics interact across African states, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "rights",
                                "name": "Rights",
                                "description": "Freedom of religion.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "rights-finding",
                                        "name": "Rights",
                                        "description": "Rights.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do rights bodies report about religious freedom and conflict in specific countries?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "study",
                        "name": "Study",
                        "description": "Study and trends.",
                        "rationale": "Study.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "trends",
                                "name": "Trends",
                                "description": "Trends.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "trends-finding",
                                        "name": "Trends",
                                        "description": "Trends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What trends do surveys show, such as the growth of Pentecostalism and African churches, with findings attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits African independent churches?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "scholarship",
                                "name": "Scholarship",
                                "description": "Scholarship.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "scholarship-finding",
                                        "name": "Scholarship",
                                        "description": "Scholarship.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do scholars study religion in Africa, and which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits African studies?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should each tradition in Africa be a separate primary entry?",
                "How should survey sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming traditions and a country; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "organisation or institution",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a religion in Africa, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe religion in Africa with demographic and regional information from sources, present the history of religious change with attribution, describe traditional religions respectfully, and route to entries for specific countries and traditions.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "social",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "collective"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Christianity in Africa, Islam in Africa, religion in Cameroon, Hinduism in Africa, Bahá'í Faith in Africa, Buddhism in Africa, religion in the Maghreb, Christianity in Cameroon, Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon, Islam in Algeria, Islam in Sudan, Islam in Libya.",
                "29 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 33 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a religion in Africa, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Acts through people, and only through them.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "Christianity in Africa",
                        "Islam in Africa",
                        "religion in Cameroon",
                        "Hinduism in Africa",
                        "Bahá'í Faith in Africa",
                        "Buddhism in Africa",
                        "religion in the Maghreb",
                        "Christianity in Cameroon",
                        "Bahá'í Faith in Cameroon",
                        "Islam in Algeria",
                        "Islam in Sudan",
                        "Islam in Libya"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 33 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 29 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one religion in Africa from another, and a religion in Africa from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a religion in Africa sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a religion in Africa from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a religion in Africa passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a religion in Africa between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a religion in Africa, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a religion in Africa is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "people-and-responsibility",
                        "name": "People, roles and responsibility",
                        "description": "Who stands in what relation to a religion in Africa.",
                        "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a religion in Africa and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a religion in Africa, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a religion in Africa and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a religion in Africa sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What religion in Africa is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does religion in Africa take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of religion in Africa, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in religion in Africa and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of religion in Africa may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does religion in Africa have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a religion in Africa came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a religion in Africa and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a religion in Africa is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a religion in Africa, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a religion in Africa, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a religion in Africa is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}