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        "rank": 3866,
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        "name": "prostate cancer",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain prostate cancer in general terms, relay risk factors, screening debates, staging and treatment options from oncology guidelines with attribution, describe the rarer forms the registry aliases name, and distinguish prostate cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis, routing anyone with symptoms or a diagnosis to their clinicians.",
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        "version": "",
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        "score": 81,
        "payload": {
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            "aliases": [
                "metastasis to prostate",
                "prostate carcinoma",
                "familial prostate cancer",
                "prostate neuroendocrine neoplasm",
                "prostate malignant phyllodes tumor",
                "prostate lymphoma",
                "prostate sarcoma",
                "adenosquamous prostate carcinoma",
                "castration-resistant prostatic neoplasm",
                "prostate cancer, hereditary, 2"
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            "markers": [],
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                "dataset": "wikidata",
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            }
        },
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                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T14:57:12Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
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                "wave": 4,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q181257",
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                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "INF.KNW"
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                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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                "name": "prostate cancer",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain prostate cancer in general terms, relay risk factors, screening debates, staging and treatment options from oncology guidelines with attribution, describe the rarer forms the registry aliases name, and distinguish prostate cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis, routing anyone with symptoms or a diagnosis to their clinicians.",
                "definition": "A cancer arising in the prostate gland, most often an adenocarcinoma, one of the most common cancers in men, often slow-growing and detected by PSA testing and biopsy, with rarer forms including neuroendocrine neoplasms, lymphoma and phyllodes tumours of the prostate, familial prostate cancer linked to inherited variants, and metastasis to the prostate from other cancers; treatment ranges from active surveillance to surgery, radiotherapy and hormonal therapy. The model gives general information and routes people to clinicians.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a disease.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain the disease",
                    "relay screening and treatment",
                    "route to clinicians",
                    "distinguish related conditions"
                ],
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                    "Common in older men",
                    "Often slow-growing",
                    "PSA screening debate",
                    "Range of treatments"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; a tumour in the prostate.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Cancer of the prostate gland",
                    "Prostate carcinoma, familial prostate cancer, neuroendocrine neoplasm, lymphoma, phyllodes tumour, metastasis to prostate",
                    "Benign prostatic hyperplasia is non-cancerous enlargement; prostatitis is inflammation"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "new cases worldwide",
                        "typical_range": "about 1.4",
                        "unit": "million",
                        "note": "2020, GLOBOCAN"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "median age at diagnosis",
                        "typical_range": "about 67",
                        "unit": "years",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "5-year survival, localised",
                        "typical_range": "near 100",
                        "unit": "percent",
                        "note": "high-income countries"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Gleason grading",
                        "typical_range": "grade groups 1-5",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "prostate adenocarcinoma",
                    "familial and hereditary prostate cancer",
                    "neuroendocrine prostate cancer",
                    "prostate lymphoma and sarcoma",
                    "phyllodes tumour of the prostate",
                    "metastases to the prostate"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "male reproductive organ cancer",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "prostate neoplasm",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is detected by",
                        "target": "prostate-specific antigen test",
                        "why": "and biopsy"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "benign prostatic hyperplasia",
                        "why": "non-cancerous enlargement"
                    }
                ],
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                    {
                        "scheme": "ICD-10",
                        "value_or_pattern": "C61",
                        "note": "malignant neoplasm of prostate"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "MeSH",
                        "value_or_pattern": "D011471",
                        "note": "Prostatic Neoplasms"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Oncology guidelines such as NCCN, EAU and NICE",
                    "Screening recommendations by national bodies"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Agents giving personal medical advice",
                    "Overdiagnosis and overtreatment debates",
                    "Registry aliases mixing rare tumour types"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
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            "structure": {
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                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What prostate cancer is.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is prostate cancer, and how does it differ from benign hyperplasia and prostatitis?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user describing personal symptoms or a diagnosis, which needs their clinician?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "types",
                                "name": "Types",
                                "description": "Types.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "types-finding",
                                        "name": "Types",
                                        "description": "Types.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are adenocarcinoma, familial, neuroendocrine, lymphoma and phyllodes forms and metastases to the prostate?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific type?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "detection",
                        "name": "Detection",
                        "description": "Screening and diagnosis.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "screening",
                                "name": "Screening",
                                "description": "Screening.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "screening-finding",
                                        "name": "Screening",
                                        "description": "Screening.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do guidelines say about PSA screening, and what is debated, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "diagnosis",
                                "name": "Diagnosis",
                                "description": "Diagnosis and staging.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diagnosis-finding",
                                        "name": "Diagnosis",
                                        "description": "Diagnosis.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are biopsy, MRI, Gleason grading and staging used?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "treatment",
                        "name": "Treatment",
                        "description": "Treatment.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "options",
                                "name": "Options",
                                "description": "Options.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "options-finding",
                                        "name": "Options",
                                        "description": "Options.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are active surveillance, surgery, radiotherapy, hormonal and systemic therapies, in general terms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific treatment?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "living",
                                "name": "Living",
                                "description": "Living with the disease.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "living-finding",
                                        "name": "Living",
                                        "description": "Living.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What support and follow-up exist, as patient organisations describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits cancer survivorship?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Research and epidemiology.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "epidemiology",
                                "name": "Epidemiology",
                                "description": "Epidemiology.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "epidemiology-finding",
                                        "name": "Epidemiology",
                                        "description": "Epidemiology.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the risk factors and global patterns?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits cancer epidemiology?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "research",
                                "name": "Research",
                                "description": "Research.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "research-finding",
                                        "name": "Research",
                                        "description": "Research.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are current research directions, such as genomics and new therapies?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits oncology research?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the rare tumour types be separate primary entries?",
                "How should oncology guidelines be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming rare forms and metastases; 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": "disease or condition",
            "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 prostate cancer, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain prostate cancer in general terms, relay risk factors, screening debates, staging and treatment options from oncology guidelines with attribution, describe the rarer forms the registry aliases name, and distinguish prostate cancer from benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatitis, routing anyone with symptoms or a diagnosis to their clinicians.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: metastasis to prostate, prostate carcinoma, familial prostate cancer, prostate neuroendocrine neoplasm, prostate malignant phyllodes tumor, prostate lymphoma, prostate sarcoma, adenosquamous prostate carcinoma, castration-resistant prostatic neoplasm, prostate cancer, hereditary, 2.",
                "10 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 81 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 prostate cancer, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "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": [
                "read it and act on what it says"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by criteria applied to signs and findings, not by appearance. Two conditions can look identical and be distinguished only by test."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "metastasis to prostate",
                        "prostate carcinoma",
                        "familial prostate cancer",
                        "prostate neuroendocrine neoplasm",
                        "prostate malignant phyllodes tumor",
                        "prostate lymphoma",
                        "prostate sarcoma",
                        "adenosquamous prostate carcinoma",
                        "castration-resistant prostatic neoplasm",
                        "prostate cancer, hereditary, 2"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 10 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 prostate cancer from another, and a prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a prostate cancer says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a prostate cancer contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a prostate cancer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a prostate cancer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a prostate cancer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a prostate cancer and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a prostate cancer, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a prostate cancer, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a prostate cancer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "diagnosis-and-criteria",
                        "name": "Diagnosis, criteria and coding",
                        "description": "What makes a case of prostate cancer a case, and under which revision.",
                        "rationale": "Criteria change between revisions, so a diagnosis without its coding revision cannot be compared with a later one.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "criteria",
                                "name": "Diagnostic criteria",
                                "description": "The criteria in force and who issues them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "criteria-record",
                                        "name": "Criteria, issuer and revision",
                                        "description": "What must be true for a diagnosis, according to whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "criteria-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What criteria define prostate cancer, issued by which body, in which revision?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "criteria-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What changed between revisions that would reclassify existing cases?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "coding",
                                "name": "Coding and terminology",
                                "description": "The codes used to record it and their mapping.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "coding-record",
                                        "name": "Codes and mappings",
                                        "description": "Which classification codes apply and how they map.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "coding-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which classification and terminology codes cover prostate cancer, and how do they map to each other?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "coding-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What is lost when a case is mapped from one scheme to another?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "course-and-population",
                        "name": "Course, population and care",
                        "description": "How prostate cancer develops, whom it affects, and what is done about it.",
                        "rationale": "The condition, the diagnosis and the episode of care are three different things, and an agent must not merge them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "course",
                                "name": "Course and stages",
                                "description": "Onset, progression, remission and outcome.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "course-record",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages recorded and what moves a case between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "course-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What course does prostate cancer typically take, and what marks each stage?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "course-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What separates the condition itself from an episode of care for it?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "population",
                                "name": "Affected populations",
                                "description": "Who is affected, how often, and on what evidence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "epidemiology",
                                        "name": "Prevalence and its basis",
                                        "description": "Rates with their population, period and source.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "epidemiology-q01",
                                                "text": "What prevalence or incidence is reported for prostate cancer, in which population and period?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "epidemiology-q02",
                                                "text": "What may an agent not conclude about an individual from a population rate?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer 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 prostate cancer is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer, 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 prostate cancer is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}