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mixtures and their resulting paint films; it records binder-based distinctions while leaving painting techniques, artworks and individual commercial products to neighbouring models.", "in_scope": [ "Pigment, binder and aqueous-phase composition of tempera mixtures", "Distinctions among egg tempera, other identified tempera formulations and products marketed as tempera", "Preparation, dilution, mixing and usable condition", "Application-relevant relationships with grounds, supports and adjacent paint layers", "Condition and handling constraints of wet paint and dried tempera films" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Tempera painting as an artistic practice or historical tradition", "Individual paintings, their imagery, attribution and ownership", "Pigments and binding ingredients as independently registered materials", "Brushes, palettes, supports and grounds as independently modelled objects", "Commercial product identities and manufacturing operations", "Conservation treatment plans for particular artworks" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify the binder rather than relying on the word tempera: an egg-bound formulation and a classroom paint carrying that label need distinct descriptions.", "Distinguish tempera from gouache through identified binder and formulation evidence; opacity or a matte appearance alone does not establish identity.", "Distinguish an egg-containing emulsion from paint bound principally by drying oil; record mixed formulations explicitly.", "Distinguish paint material from the technique called tempera painting and from an artwork made with that technique.", "Treat water miscibility during preparation and water sensitivity after drying as separate properties; neither alone identifies tempera." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Material designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "egg tempera; identified non-egg tempera; mixed-binder tempera; commercially labelled tempera with unverified binder; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an ambiguous historical or commercial name from determining material behaviour." }, { "name": "Binder identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "identified binding ingredients and their roles; unknown where unsupported", "why_it_matters": "Supports classification and informs preparation, drying and handling decisions." }, { "name": "Pigment composition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to identified pigments or colourants, with identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Colour alone cannot establish compatibility, stability or ingredient hazards." }, { "name": "Mixture proportions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mass fraction (%), volume fraction (%) or recipe ratio, with basis and ingredient preparation stated", "why_it_matters": "Makes recipes interpretable and helps investigate underbinding, excessive binder or inconsistent application." }, { "name": "Material stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unmixed components; freshly prepared paint; stored wet paint; applied wet layer; dried film", "why_it_matters": "Separates decisions about a usable mixture from decisions about an existing paint film." }, { "name": "Preparation and storage history", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "preparation event, elapsed time, container and documented storage conditions", "why_it_matters": "Supports condition assessment without assuming one shelf life for all formulations." }, { "name": "Application consistency", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "viscosity in mPa·s under a stated method, or a documented brush-flow test", "why_it_matters": "Helps determine whether a mixture suits the intended stroke, wash or thin-layer application." }, { "name": "Support and ground relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified support and ground, including absorbency, flexibility and test evidence", "why_it_matters": "Application suitability depends on the receiving surface as well as the paint." }, { "name": "Film water response", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "untested; no observed change; swelling; colour transfer; softening; dissolution, under documented conditions", "why_it_matters": "Prevents wet-paint dilution behaviour from being mistaken for permission to wet a dried film." }, { "name": "Observed material condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "documented separation, agglomeration, contamination indicators, powdering, cracking, lifting or no observed defect", "why_it_matters": "Connects visible condition to further assessment and handling limits." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a tempera material using binder, recipe and product evidence.", "Prepare or adjust a mixture using a documented formulation and application test.", "Compare candidate grounds and layer combinations using representative test samples.", "Assess whether stored wet paint remains suitable for its intended use.", "Record drying and film-condition observations to guide subsequent layering or handling.", "Route ingredient-specific handling, cleaning and disposal decisions to supporting material guidance." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "tempera-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Tempera identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what the tempera designation means for the material being recorded.", "rationale": "Tempera can identify materially different formulations, so the label must be connected to evidence before behaviour is inferred.", "layers": [ { "id": "binder-based-identification", "name": "Binder-based identification", "description": "Identifies the binding system and the evidence supporting its classification.", "findings": [ { "id": "binder-evidence", "name": "Binder evidence", "description": "Record the stated or identified binder separately from assumptions based on appearance or naming.", "questions": [ { "text": "What binding ingredients are documented, and does egg refer to yolk, white, whole egg or an unspecified preparation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "binder-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the identification come from a preparation record, manufacturer information, historical documentation or material analysis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "binder-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-paint-boundaries", "name": "Neighbouring paint boundaries", "description": "Separates tempera material from adjacent paint categories and other uses of the name.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-versus-composition", "name": "Designation versus composition", "description": "Preserve the supplied designation while recording whether composition supports a more precise material identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is tempera being used here as a material classification, a commercial label or the name of a painting technique?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-versus-composition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this formulation from gouache, acrylic paint, drying-oil paint or a mixed-binder paint?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "designation-versus-composition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "formulation-and-preparation", "name": "Formulation and preparation", "description": "Describes how pigments, binder and liquid are combined into the recorded tempera.", "rationale": "A tempera recipe must preserve ingredient roles and proportion conventions to support repeatable preparation.", "layers": [ { "id": "ingredient-roles-and-ratios", "name": "Ingredient roles and ratios", "description": "Records colourants, binding ingredients, liquid phases and additions without treating all recipes as equivalent.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-formulation", "name": "Interpretable formulation", "description": "Express composition with enough detail to distinguish pigment paste, prepared binder and added dilution water.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pigments, binding ingredients, oils, resins or other additions are present, and what role does each serve?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interpretable-formulation-q01" }, { "text": "What are their proportions, and are these measured by mass, volume or a recipe-specific convention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-formulation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mixing-and-working-consistency", "name": "Mixing and working consistency", "description": "Connects ingredient preparation and mixing to the paint's observed application behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "prepared-mixture-behaviour", "name": "Prepared mixture behaviour", "description": "Document preparation sequence and practical consistency tests rather than assuming a universal dilution rule.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were the binder and pigments prepared, wetted and combined, and what evidence records the sequence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "prepared-mixture-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "What brush-flow, dispersion or dried-swatch result would justify adjusting this mixture's water or binder content?", "kind": "action", "id": "prepared-mixture-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "application-and-film-formation", "name": "Application and film formation", "description": "Relates tempera formulation to the receiving surface, layer construction and observed drying behaviour.", "rationale": "Suitability for application depends on the paint-ground combination and the intended sequence of layers.", "layers": [ { "id": "ground-and-support-fit", "name": "Ground and support fit", "description": "Records the surface properties and mechanical relationships relevant to a tempera layer.", "findings": [ { "id": "receiving-surface-compatibility", "name": "Receiving surface compatibility", "description": "Connect the proposed paint application to identified ground and support properties and representative tests.", "questions": [ { "text": "What ground and support receive the paint, and what is known about their absorbency, surface preparation and flexibility?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "receiving-surface-compatibility-q01" }, { "text": "What test establishes acceptable wetting, adhesion and surface appearance for this tempera-ground combination?", "kind": "action", "id": "receiving-surface-compatibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "layering-and-drying-state", "name": "Layering and drying state", "description": "Separates application readiness, surface drying and subsequent film behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "layer-readiness", "name": "Layer readiness", "description": "Record layer thickness, elapsed time and observed response before authorising another application.", "questions": [ { "text": "What layer thickness or application method, elapsed drying time and environmental conditions describe this film?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "layer-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or representative test indicates that another layer can be applied without lifting or disturbing the existing paint?", "kind": "action", "id": "layer-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-handling-decisions", "name": "Condition and handling decisions", "description": "Assesses wet mixtures and dried films as distinct material states with different handling needs.", "rationale": "Tempera condition cannot be reduced to a single expiry date or a universal claim about water resistance.", "layers": [ { "id": "wet-mixture-usability", "name": "Wet mixture usability", "description": "Evaluates stored paint using formulation, preparation history and observed changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "storage-related-change", "name": "Storage-related change", "description": "Distinguish potentially reversible settling from changes that require rejection or further assessment.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the mixture prepared or opened, how was it stored, and what formulation-specific storage guidance exists?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "storage-related-change-q01" }, { "text": "Do observed separation, altered consistency or contamination indicators support remixing, further testing or disposal?", "kind": "action", "id": "storage-related-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dried-film-sensitivity", "name": "Dried film sensitivity", "description": "Records film defects and exposure responses that constrain handling or require conservation assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "film-response-and-intervention-limits", "name": "Film response and intervention limits", "description": "Keep observed sensitivity separate from inferred causes and proposed treatments.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence documents powdering, cracking, lifting or response to moisture, and under what observation or test conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "film-response-and-intervention-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which handling decisions follow from that evidence, and which proposed cleaning or consolidation actions require an artwork-specific conservation assessment?", "kind": "action", "id": "film-response-and-intervention-limits-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": [ "The registry supplies no sense: the physical domain suggests the paint material, but 'tempera' also names a technique and works made with it.", "Historical definitions vary in whether they include binders other than egg; modern commercial 'tempera' must be distinguished by its actual formulation.", "No single composition, measurement range or substance identifier applies to all tempera paints." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of tempera 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": [ "Egg-yolk tempera", "Whole-egg tempera", "Tempera grassa, an egg-and-oil emulsion" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of tempera 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": [ "Panel painting, especially in medieval and early Renaissance European art", "Religious icon 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"id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a tempera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a tempera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a tempera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a tempera is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tempera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a tempera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a tempera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a tempera is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a tempera, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a tempera, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a tempera 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 tempera is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "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 tempera is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera 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 tempera is carried, installed or relocated.", "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 tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera 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 tempera 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 tempera between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera 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 tempera, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a tempera 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 tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What tempera is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does tempera perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise tempera, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How tempera is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does tempera have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does tempera need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about tempera is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about tempera hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern tempera, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a tempera 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 tempera and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera 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 tempera is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tempera, 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 tempera, 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 tempera is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }