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conventions of status, responsibility, loyalty, and punishment.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the historical concept of seppuku, its attributed meanings, institutional settings and criteria for classifying reported instances; it supports interpretation and evidence assessment without providing instructions for self-harm.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of seppuku and their dependence on period, source and interpretive tradition", "Reported instances, including their evidential status and historical context", "Relationships among personal agency, social obligation and imposed death", "Status, authority and ritual recognition associated with the practice", "Later representations and contested claims about honour, loyalty and responsibility" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Suicide in general and individual clinical assessment", "Practical instructions, instruments or bodily techniques for self-harm", "Japanese warrior society and legal institutions except where needed to interpret seppuku", "Bushidō as a broader and independently contested concept", "Other forms of execution, sacrifice or self-inflicted death except for boundary comparison", "Literary, theatrical and cinematic works as complete creative objects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A Japanese setting or a warrior participant alone does not establish seppuku; classification requires evidence connecting the event to the named practice or a historically justified equivalent.", "A report of self-inflicted death must be distinguished from its recognition as a ritual or institutionally regulated act.", "An imposed or authorised death must remain distinguishable from an independently initiated act, even when both are labelled seppuku.", "Death associated with a lord, defeat, protest or disgrace does not establish seppuku without separate evidence for that classification.", "A fictional depiction, metaphorical use or later commemorative account is a representation of the practice, not independent proof of a historical occurrence." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "historical practice; reported event; institutional prescription; fictional representation; metaphorical reference", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating prescriptions, stories and actual occurrences as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Attested terminology", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "source-linked original term, translation and attribution", "why_it_matters": "Makes classification traceable to the language of a source rather than silently imposing a modern label." }, { "name": "Historical setting", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "date or date range; locality; governing authority; uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Definitions and institutional expectations must be assessed within a specific setting." }, { "name": "Participant status", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "source-described social position, affiliation and eligibility; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports investigation of who could participate without assuming a universal status rule." }, { "name": "Agency and constraint", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "reported self-initiation; reported order; reported social pressure; mixed; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents ritual recognition or claims of honour from being mistaken for evidence of free choice." }, { "name": "Attributed purpose", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "stated purpose linked to speaker, source and date; competing attributions; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates participant statements from explanations supplied by authorities or later interpreters." }, { "name": "Institutional recognition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported authorised; reported ordered; reported prohibited; contested; unattested", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes institutional standing from whether an event reportedly occurred." }, { "name": "Evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "supported by identified evidence; contested; dependent on later accounts; fictional; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may describe an occurrence as established, attributed or uncertain." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a reference as a reported occurrence, prescription, representation or metaphor, with explicit uncertainty.", "Compare definitions and translations while preserving their historical and scholarly attribution.", "Trace claims about an event to sources and identify dependence among retellings.", "Assess evidence of orders, pressure and institutional recognition without presuming consent.", "Compare portrayals of honour and loyalty with the evidence cited for them.", "Produce a contextual, non-graphic account that identifies disputed classifications and missing evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definition-and-historical-boundaries", "name": "Definition and historical boundaries", "description": "Establish what a source means by seppuku and which neighbouring concepts it includes or excludes.", "rationale": "An agent needs historically defensible classification criteria rather than a single definition projected across all periods.", "layers": [ { "id": "terms-and-translations", "name": "Terms and translations", "description": "Examine the terminology used by historical actors, translators and later scholars.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-specific-naming", "name": "Source-specific naming", "description": "Record the attested label and investigate whether its translation changes the apparent meaning or register.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which term does the source actually use, and who identifies it as seppuku?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-specific-naming-q01" }, { "text": "In this source and period, how are seppuku, hara-kiri and other relevant expressions related or distinguished?", "kind": "definition", "id": "source-specific-naming-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "instance-and-neighbour-tests", "name": "Instance and neighbour tests", "description": "Determine the evidence needed to distinguish seppuku from overlapping descriptions of death.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-threshold", "name": "Classification threshold", "description": "Assess whether the available evidence supports the specific classification, keeping motive and form conceptually separate.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence beyond a Japanese setting, warrior identity or self-inflicted death supports classification as seppuku?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "Does a label such as junshi describe a relationship or motive that overlaps with seppuku, rather than establish the same category?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-threshold-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-status-and-agency", "name": "Authority, status and agency", "description": "Investigate the institutional conditions and constraints surrounding a 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"choice-and-pressure", "name": "Choice and pressure", "description": "Separate claims of willingness from evidence of coercion, obligation and available alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "agency-under-constraint", "name": "Agency under constraint", "description": "Preserve uncertainty about personal intention and distinguish it from public explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes self-initiation, an explicit order and social pressure in this case?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "agency-under-constraint-q01" }, { "text": "Whose account describes the act as chosen or obligatory, and what is known about the alternatives available?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "agency-under-constraint-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-recognition-and-event-evidence", "name": "Ritual recognition and event evidence", "description": "Assess the social recognition of a reported event and the sources supporting its occurrence.", "rationale": "Descriptions of an ideal ceremony do 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"rationale": "Narratives about honour, loyalty and Japanese identity require attribution and must not substitute for evidence about particular events.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-meanings", "name": "Attributed meanings", "description": "Compare explanations offered by participants, authorities, contemporaries and later interpreters.", "findings": [ { "id": "honour-loyalty-and-contestation", "name": "Honour, loyalty and contestation", "description": "Treat moral explanations as attributed interpretations whose meanings and evidential support need examination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who interprets this act through honour, loyalty, punishment, protest or responsibility, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "honour-loyalty-and-contestation-q01" }, { "text": "Are later ideas about bushidō being applied to an earlier event, and which scholars support or contest that interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "honour-loyalty-and-contestation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-reuse", "name": "Representation and reuse", "description": "Distinguish historical claims from dramatic conventions, political invocations and metaphorical extensions.", "findings": [ { "id": "portrayal-versus-historical-evidence", "name": "Portrayal versus historical evidence", "description": "Assess what a later portrayal demonstrates about reception and what it cannot independently establish about the past.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does this portrayal reveal about its own audience and period, separately from its claims about historical seppuku?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "portrayal-versus-historical-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "How should an agent contextualise the portrayal without endorsing its romanticisation or treating its dramatic conventions as historical facts?", "kind": "action", "id": "portrayal-versus-historical-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recall-based description; no sources were consulted.", "The listed varieties are overlapping contexts and motives, not a universal historical taxonomy.", "Check period-specific scholarship before asserting legal dates, ritual requirements, prevalence, or participants' motives." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of seppuku this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Voluntary seppuku following defeat or threatened capture", "Seppuku imposed as a judicial punishment", "Seppuku undertaken as remonstrance or protest", "Junshi: suicide following the death of one's lord, sometimes performed as seppuku" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of seppuku this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Japanese written designation", "value_or_pattern": "切腹", "note": "Read seppuku; this is a lexical designation, not a registry identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of seppuku this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Historical punishment for members of the warrior class.", "Historical response to military defeat, disgrace, or perceived failure of duty.", "Historical expression of loyalty or remonstrance.", "Subject of historical scholarship, literature, theatre, and film." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of seppuku this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item 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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 seppuku, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise and critically assess references to seppuku as a historically situated Japanese practice of ritualised suicide, distinguishing documented events, institutional coercion and later representations.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 78 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 seppuku, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 78 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one seppuku from another, and a seppuku 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku 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 seppuku between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a seppuku 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What seppuku is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of seppuku are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is seppuku operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of seppuku and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of seppuku?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as seppuku?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a seppuku 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 seppuku and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku 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 seppuku is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a seppuku, 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 seppuku, 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 seppuku is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }