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    "model": {
        "rank": 2501,
        "code": "thing-q125482",
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        "name": "imam",
        "purpose": "Let an agent describe the role of imam neutrally with attribution to the traditions themselves and to scholarship, distinguish the prayer-leader and community-leader senses from the Shia doctrine of the Imamate and from political titles, and route religious guidance to the communities.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
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        "score": 104,
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                "Imam of Oman",
                "Muslim minister",
                "military imam",
                "Imam Salat",
                "Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam",
                "Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan",
                "Representative of the Supreme Leader in Razavi Khorasan Province",
                "Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam",
                "Deputy of Al-Azhar",
                "Ismaili imam",
                "Aga Khan",
                "Imam of Friday Prayer",
                "Istikhlaf",
                "High Priest of the Islamic Defenders Front",
                "Grand Imam of al-Azhar"
            ],
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            "merged": 15,
            "knownIn": 104,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
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            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q125482",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125482",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
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            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T20:21:37Z",
                "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-Q125482",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.imam",
                "name": "imam",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "SOC.PER"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.imam",
                "name": "imam",
                "purpose": "Let an agent describe the role of imam neutrally with attribution to the traditions themselves and to scholarship, distinguish the prayer-leader and community-leader senses from the Shia doctrine of the Imamate and from political titles, and route religious guidance to the communities.",
                "definition": "In Islam, the person who leads congregational prayer, and more broadly a religious leader or scholar of a community or mosque; in Sunni usage any qualified Muslim may serve as prayer leader while the term also names mosque officials and founders of legal schools, and in Shia Islam the Imams are the divinely designated successors of the Prophet, a distinct and central doctrine.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Leading prayer and guiding a Muslim community.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain the senses of the term",
                    "describe qualifications and duties by tradition",
                    "distinguish the Shia Imamate from the prayer-leader role",
                    "relay how imams are appointed and trained in different countries"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Prayer leadership as the core sense",
                    "No ordination in Sunni Islam; qualifications by knowledge and community",
                    "Institutional roles in mosques and states",
                    "Distinct Shia doctrine of the Imamate"
                ],
                "appearance": "A person leading prayer at the front of a congregation; no fixed dress, though local conventions exist.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Leads congregational prayer",
                    "May serve as mosque official, teacher and counsellor",
                    "The Shia Imams and political titles using the word are distinct senses"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "prayer leaders in mosques",
                    "mosque imams as employed officials",
                    "imams as scholars and founders of legal schools",
                    "the Imams of Shia Islam",
                    "military, prison and hospital imams as chaplains",
                    "political and dynastic titles such as the Imams of Oman"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "religious leader",
                        "why": "the general category"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Islamic cleric",
                        "why": "in institutional usage"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "leads",
                        "target": "salah",
                        "why": "congregational prayer"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is distinguished from",
                        "target": "Imamate in Shia Islam",
                        "why": "a doctrine of succession"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Mosque and community rules on appointment",
                    "State regulation of religious officials in some countries",
                    "Chaplaincy standards in armed forces, prisons and hospitals",
                    "Freedom of religion or belief under international law"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Mixing the prayer-leader sense with the Shia doctrine",
                    "Presenting one tradition as the whole",
                    "Political labels presented as religious facts",
                    "Stereotyping"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
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                    {
                        "id": "role",
                        "name": "Role",
                        "description": "What an imam is.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "senses",
                                "name": "Senses",
                                "description": "Senses of the term.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "senses-finding",
                                        "name": "Senses",
                                        "description": "Senses.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the senses of imam in Sunni and Shia usage, and how do they differ?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about a prayer leader, a scholar, the Shia Imams or a political title?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "duties",
                                "name": "Duties",
                                "description": "Duties and qualifications.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "duties-finding",
                                        "name": "Duties",
                                        "description": "Duties.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What qualifications and duties does the tradition describe for a prayer leader and mosque imam?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation attributed to the tradition and to scholarship?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "institution",
                        "name": "Institution",
                        "description": "Appointment and training.",
                        "rationale": "Practice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "appointment",
                                "name": "Appointment",
                                "description": "Appointment.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "appointment-finding",
                                        "name": "Appointment",
                                        "description": "Appointment.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are imams appointed, employed and trained in different countries?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Islamic education?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "chaplaincy",
                                "name": "Chaplaincy",
                                "description": "Chaplaincy roles.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "chaplaincy-finding",
                                        "name": "Chaplaincy",
                                        "description": "Chaplaincy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do imams serve as chaplains in armed forces, prisons and hospitals?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits chaplaincy?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "doctrine",
                        "name": "Doctrine",
                        "description": "The Shia Imamate.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "imamate",
                                "name": "Imamate",
                                "description": "The Imamate.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "imamate-finding",
                                        "name": "Imamate",
                                        "description": "Imamate.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What does Shia Islam teach about the Imams, in its own terms and as described by scholars?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "branches",
                                "name": "Branches",
                                "description": "Branches.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "branches-finding",
                                        "name": "Branches",
                                        "description": "Branches.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do Twelver, Ismaili and Zaydi views of the Imamate differ?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits a specific branch?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "History and handling.",
                        "rationale": "Care.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "History.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did the role develop historically, and which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Islamic history?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "handling",
                                "name": "Handling",
                                "description": "Handling and data.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "handling-finding",
                                        "name": "Handling",
                                        "description": "Handling.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What rules apply to data about religious roles and beliefs?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user asking for religious guidance, which the community provides?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the Shia Imamate be a separate entry?",
                "How should country regulations on imams be represented?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming political offices in Iran and Oman; 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": "occupation or role",
            "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 imam, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe the role of imam neutrally with attribution to the traditions themselves and to scholarship, distinguish the prayer-leader and community-leader senses from the Shia doctrine of the Imamate and from political titles, and route religious guidance to the communities.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "social",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "autonomous",
                "mobility": "self-moving"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Imam of Oman, Muslim minister, military imam, Imam Salat, Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam, Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan, Representative of the Supreme Leader in Razavi Khorasan Province, Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam, Deputy of Al-Azhar, Ismaili imam, Aga Khan, Imam of Friday Prayer.",
                "15 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 104 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 imam, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.",
                "Acts on its own behalf.",
                "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": [
                "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "Imam of Oman",
                        "Muslim minister",
                        "military imam",
                        "Imam Salat",
                        "Tehran's Ephemeral Friday Prayer Imam",
                        "Representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan",
                        "Representative of the Supreme Leader in Razavi Khorasan Province",
                        "Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam",
                        "Deputy of Al-Azhar",
                        "Ismaili imam",
                        "Aga Khan",
                        "Imam of Friday Prayer"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 104 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 15 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 imam from another, and a imam 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 imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam 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 imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a imam is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a imam is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a imam, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a imam, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a imam is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a imam moves on its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a imam, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a imam, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a imam 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 imam 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 imam between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a imam 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 imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam.",
                        "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 imam and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a imam, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a imam sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "competence-and-licence",
                        "name": "Competence, qualification and licence",
                        "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as imam.",
                        "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competences",
                                "name": "Competences and qualifications",
                                "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "qualification-record",
                                        "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced",
                                        "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "qualification-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What competences and qualifications does imam require, and how is each evidenced?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "qualification-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "licensing",
                                "name": "Licensing and the right to practise",
                                "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "licence-record",
                                        "name": "Licence, issuer and validity",
                                        "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "licence-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who licenses imam, in which territory, and for how long?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "licence-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "tasks-and-accountability",
                        "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability",
                        "description": "What imam actually does and who answers for it.",
                        "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "tasks",
                                "name": "Tasks and typical duties",
                                "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "duty-record",
                                        "name": "Duties and setting",
                                        "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "duty-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What tasks define imam, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "duty-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "accountability",
                                "name": "Employment and accountability",
                                "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "responsibility",
                                        "name": "Responsibility and supervision",
                                        "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "responsibility-q01",
                                                "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as imam, and who supervises or is liable?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "responsibility-q02",
                                                "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a imam 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 imam and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam 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 imam is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a imam, 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 imam, 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 imam is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 14,
                "findings": 16,
                "questions": 44
            }
        }
    }
}