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                "registry_id": "vr.tr.iran-men-s-national-football-team",
                "name": "Iran men's national football team",
                "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Iran's senior men's national association football team, assess its sporting and organisational state, and distinguish actions it may recommend from decisions reserved to authorised football bodies.",
                "definition": "Iran men's national football team is the senior men's representative association football team of Iran, administered by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran and competing in international football under FIFA and Asian Football Confederation frameworks.",
                "scope_statement": "This model owns the continuing representative team identified by vr.tr.iran-men-s-national-football-team, including its mandate, changing squads, sporting participation, operational readiness and public representation, without assuming that the team is a separately incorporated organisation.",
                "in_scope": [
                    "Identity and continuity of Iran's senior men's national association football team",
                    "Relationship to Iran's football federation and allocation of team decision rights",
                    "Player eligibility, selection, availability and squad membership over time",
                    "International fixtures, competition participation and sporting performance",
                    "Team preparation, match operations and authorised public representation"
                ],
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                    "Iran's football federation as a whole, including domestic league administration",
                    "Iran's women's, youth, Olympic, futsal and beach soccer representative teams",
                    "Players' complete biographies, club employment and private lives",
                    "Stadium ownership and venue operation outside the team's use of facilities",
                    "Iranian state institutions and national politics beyond documented effects on team activities",
                    "Competition organisers' complete rules and governance"
                ],
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                    "Represents Iran in senior men's international association football rather than competing as a club with a domestic league identity.",
                    "Its identity continues across changes of coach, captain and selected players; a tournament squad is a temporary composition of the team.",
                    "Senior-team designation distinguishes it from Iran's age-restricted and Olympic representative sides, even when players overlap.",
                    "Association football match format distinguishes it from Iran's futsal and beach soccer teams.",
                    "The name 'Team Melli' is an alias requiring context and does not, by itself, establish that a record concerns this exact registered team."
                ],
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                        "name": "Registry identity",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "vr.tr.iran-men-s-national-football-team; plane SOC; domain SOC.ORG",
                        "why_it_matters": "Anchors records to one continuing thing despite aliases and changing personnel."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Representative category",
                        "kind": "category",
                        "unit_or_values": "Iran; senior; men; association football",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents conflation with neighbouring Iranian representative teams."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Governing federation",
                        "kind": "relation",
                        "unit_or_values": "Responsible football federation, with source and effective dates",
                        "why_it_matters": "Locates the authority behind team entry, appointments and administration."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Selection status",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Candidate, called up, provisionally listed, registered, withdrawn or released; dated to a camp or competition",
                        "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes public selection announcements from final competition registration."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Player eligibility determination",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Confirmed, pending, disputed or ineligible for a specified competition and date",
                        "why_it_matters": "Prevents nationality, birthplace or prior appearances from being treated as sufficient eligibility evidence."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Player availability",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Available, injured, suspended, awaiting release, withdrawn or unknown for a specified fixture",
                        "why_it_matters": "Separates eligibility and selection from practical ability to participate."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Competition participation",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Entered, qualifying, qualified, active, eliminated, withdrawn or excluded; tied to edition and date",
                        "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about upcoming obligations without treating old qualification status as current."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Match result",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Goals for and against; regulation, extra time and shootout recorded separately",
                        "why_it_matters": "Allows reliable comparison while preserving how a match was decided."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "International ranking",
                        "kind": "measurement",
                        "unit_or_values": "Published rank and points under a named ranking system and release date",
                        "why_it_matters": "Provides a dated comparative indicator without equating ranking with guaranteed match strength."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Operational readiness",
                        "kind": "state",
                        "unit_or_values": "Ready, conditional, blocked or unknown for a named camp or fixture",
                        "why_it_matters": "Connects player availability, travel, facilities and approvals to an actionable participation assessment."
                    }
                ],
                "affordances": [
                    "Resolve references to Iran or Team Melli against the senior men's association football identity and flag ambiguous records.",
                    "Assemble a dated squad view that separates eligibility, call-up, registration and availability.",
                    "Track Iran's competition pathway and fixture obligations using sourced, edition-specific information.",
                    "Compare match performance with explicit treatment of opponent, venue, match status and sample size.",
                    "Identify preparation or participation blockers and route proposed actions to the responsible team or federation authority.",
                    "Prepare sourced team summaries while distinguishing official statements from reporting and individual opinion."
                ]
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            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "iran-team-identity-and-mandate",
                        "name": "Iran team identity and mandate",
                        "description": "Establishes which Iranian representative side is being modelled and the authority under which it participates.",
                        "rationale": "Country labels and national-team aliases can collapse several distinct sides, while the team need not have an independent legal identity.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "representative-identity",
                                "name": "Representative identity",
                                "description": "Defines the senior men's association football identity across names, languages and personnel changes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "identity-and-alias-resolution",
                                        "name": "Identity and alias resolution",
                                        "description": "Record authoritative names and contextual aliases against the registry identity; preserve distinctions from other Iranian national sides.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which official names and identifiers denote Iran's senior men's association football team, and which sources establish them?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "identity-and-alias-resolution-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "When a source says 'Iran' or 'Team Melli', what sport, age category and competition evidence resolves the reference?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "identity-and-alias-resolution-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "federation-mandate-and-decision-rights",
                                "name": "Federation mandate and decision rights",
                                "description": "Locates responsibility for the team without importing the federation's entire institutional model.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "team-authority",
                                        "name": "Team authority",
                                        "description": "Record the federation relationship and evidenced authority for appointments, selections, competition entries and official communications.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What governing documents establish responsibility for Iran's senior men's team, and do they give the team any separate legal status?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "team-authority-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who may approve coaching appointments, squad registration, fixture commitments and statements on behalf of the team?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "team-authority-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "iran-player-pool-and-squads",
                        "name": "Iran player pool and squads",
                        "description": "Models how eligible players become selected and available members of a particular Iran squad.",
                        "rationale": "The continuing national team must be distinguished from each camp roster, competition list and matchday lineup.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "international-eligibility",
                                "name": "International eligibility",
                                "description": "Tracks the evidence and applicable rules supporting a player's right to represent Iran.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "eligibility-evidence",
                                        "name": "Eligibility evidence",
                                        "description": "Record authoritative eligibility determinations, including any relevant previous representation or approved change of association, without inferring eligibility from heritage alone.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence establishes a candidate's eligibility to represent Iran under the rules applicable on the intended match date?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "eligibility-evidence-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does previous representation of another association require a decision before the player can appear for Iran?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "eligibility-evidence-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "selection-and-match-availability",
                                "name": "Selection and match availability",
                                "description": "Separates coaching choices, administrative registration and practical participation constraints.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "dated-squad-membership",
                                        "name": "Dated squad membership",
                                        "description": "Record call-ups, replacements, withdrawals, registration and matchday inclusion for a named camp or competition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which dated announcement or registration record establishes each player's status in this Iran squad?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "dated-squad-membership-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which selected players remain unavailable because of injury, suspension, club release or another documented constraint?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "dated-squad-membership-q02"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who can authorise a replacement, and what registration deadline or competition restriction applies?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "dated-squad-membership-q03"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "iran-international-competition-record",
                        "name": "Iran international competition record",
                        "description": "Connects Iran's fixtures and results to specific competition editions and recognised match categories.",
                        "rationale": "World Cup and Asian Cup pathways, friendlies and other matches carry different consequences and cannot be treated as interchangeable results.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competition-pathways",
                                "name": "Competition pathways",
                                "description": "Tracks entry, qualification and progression for each competition edition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "edition-specific-standing",
                                        "name": "Edition-specific standing",
                                        "description": "Record Iran's verified participation state, group or bracket position and remaining progression conditions at a stated date.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "For the specified World Cup, Asian Cup or other competition edition, what is Iran's verified participation and progression state?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "edition-specific-standing-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which remaining results, tiebreakers or administrative decisions can change Iran's progression?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "edition-specific-standing-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "recognised-fixtures-and-results",
                                "name": "Recognised fixtures and results",
                                "description": "Establishes which matches belong to the senior team's record and how outcomes are counted.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "match-status-and-outcome",
                                        "name": "Match status and outcome",
                                        "description": "Record opponent identity, date, competition, venue, recognition status and result, retaining distinctions among play, shootouts and administrative awards.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which authority recognises this fixture as an Iran senior men's international, and do statistical sources disagree?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "match-status-and-outcome-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What result followed regulation time, extra time, a penalty shootout or an administrative decision?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "match-status-and-outcome-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "iran-sporting-state-and-preparation",
                        "name": "Iran sporting state and preparation",
                        "description": "Assesses how the available Iran squad is prepared to perform in a defined match or competition context.",
                        "rationale": "Historical reputation and ranking alone do not establish the readiness or tactical capabilities of a particular squad.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "observed-playing-capabilities",
                                "name": "Observed playing capabilities",
                                "description": "Relates tactical assessments to dated matches, selected personnel and coaching periods.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidenced-playing-patterns",
                                        "name": "Evidenced playing patterns",
                                        "description": "Record observed formations, roles and phases of play with their evidence and limits, rather than assigning Iran a permanent national playing style.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which recent Iran matches support the recorded claims about buildup, defensive organisation, transitions and set pieces?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "evidenced-playing-patterns-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do those observations vary with opponent strength, game state, coach and player availability?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "evidenced-playing-patterns-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "camp-and-fixture-readiness",
                                "name": "Camp and fixture readiness",
                                "description": "Connects preparation plans to the facilities, people and permissions needed for participation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "readiness-and-blockers",
                                        "name": "Readiness and blockers",
                                        "description": "Record confirmed training arrangements, travel requirements, player arrival schedules and unresolved dependencies for a named Iran camp or fixture.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which training, travel, entry-permission, venue and player-release arrangements are confirmed for the next named team activity?",
                                                "kind": "measurement",
                                                "id": "readiness-and-blockers-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "For each unresolved dependency, who owns the decision and what is the latest useful resolution date?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "id": "readiness-and-blockers-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "iran-public-representation-and-continuity",
                        "name": "Iran public representation and continuity",
                        "description": "Handles official team expression and continuity of records across changing personnel and institutional circumstances.",
                        "rationale": "A national team represents a country in sport, but its players, federation, supporters and state institutions do not speak interchangeably.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "authorised-team-expression",
                                "name": "Authorised team expression",
                                "description": "Distinguishes official team communications and symbols from individual speech and outside interpretation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "statement-and-symbol-attribution",
                                        "name": "Statement and symbol attribution",
                                        "description": "Record the issuer, authority, date and context of statements and officially used team identifiers without imputing views to all players or supporters.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Was a statement issued by an authorised team representative, the federation, an individual player or an external actor?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "statement-and-symbol-attribution-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which name, crest, kit and other identifiers are officially applicable to the specified period or competition?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "id": "statement-and-symbol-attribution-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "historical-record-continuity",
                                "name": "Historical record continuity",
                                "description": "Preserves the team's identity and provenance while allowing disputed historical statistics to remain unresolved.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "continuity-and-record-disputes",
                                        "name": "Continuity and record disputes",
                                        "description": "Record how authoritative sources connect historical Iran teams to the present identity and preserve competing match, appearance or milestone counts where counting rules differ.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources establish the team's historical starting point and continuity through changes in federation leadership, national symbols and personnel?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "id": "continuity-and-record-disputes-q01"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where do Iran appearance totals, first-match claims or result histories differ because sources recognise different fixtures?",
                                                "kind": "boundary",
                                                "id": "continuity-and-record-disputes-q02"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment",
                        "name": "Evidence and external alignment",
                        "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.",
                        "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "reported-evidence",
                                "name": "Reported evidence",
                                "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-confidence-notes",
                                        "name": "Check these first",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "This describes the continuing senior men's representative team, not a particular tournament squad or a separately verified legal entity.",
                                            "Current players, coaches, rankings and competition status are omitted because they require verification.",
                                            "Exact eligibility provisions and competition regulations depend on the applicable edition; no sources were consulted."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Identifiers and schemes",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "scheme": "FIFA three-letter country code",
                                                "value_or_pattern": "IRN",
                                                "note": "Identifies Iran in international football contexts; it is not a unique legal identifier for the senior men's team."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation",
                                        "name": "Standards and regulation",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Laws of the Game, issued by the International Football Association Board.",
                                            "FIFA regulations governing eligibility to play for representative teams.",
                                            "FIFA World Cup competition regulations, issued by FIFA.",
                                            "AFC Asian Cup competition regulations, issued by the Asian Football Confederation.",
                                            "FIFA Disciplinary Code, issued by FIFA."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team 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": [
                                            "Represents Iran in men's senior international matches.",
                                            "Competes in FIFA World Cup qualification and, when qualified, the finals.",
                                            "Competes in AFC Asian Cup qualification and finals under the applicable qualification arrangements.",
                                            "Plays international friendly matches for preparation and player assessment."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-measurements",
                                        "name": "Typical measurements",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Players fielded by the team at the start of a standard match",
                                                "typical_range": "11, including one goalkeeper",
                                                "unit": "players"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "quantity": "Scheduled regulation playing time",
                                                "typical_range": "90, excluding added time and any extra time",
                                                "unit": "minutes"
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-measurements-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards",
                                        "name": "Failure modes and hazards",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Player injury and fatigue can reduce availability and performance.",
                                            "Fielding an ineligible player can lead to disciplinary sanctions.",
                                            "Accumulated cautions or dismissals can cause player suspensions.",
                                            "Failure to qualify prevents participation in tournament finals.",
                                            "Travel, visa, security or political restrictions can disrupt fixtures and preparation."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-regional-variation",
                                        "name": "Regional variation",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            "Iran competes within the Asian Football Confederation's continental framework.",
                                            "The team is commonly known as Team Melli, a Persian expression meaning national team."
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                                        "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                                        "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                                        "evidence": [
                                            {
                                                "name": "Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran",
                                                "difference": "The federation governs football and administers representative teams; the senior men's team is one sporting representative unit under it."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Iran women's national football team",
                                                "difference": "Represents Iran in women's international association football."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Iran men's national under-23 football team",
                                                "difference": "An age-category representative team with competition-specific eligibility rules, distinct from the senior men's team."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Iran national futsal team",
                                                "difference": "Competes in futsal under its separate laws and competitions."
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "name": "Iranian club football teams",
                                                "difference": "Represent individual clubs and recruit eligible club players rather than selecting a national representative side."
                                            }
                                        ],
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                                                "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Iran men's national football team this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this exact team identity, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?",
                "Which federation instruments establish the team's mandate, legal status and current delegation of appointment, selection and registration powers?",
                "Which official Persian and English names, identifiers and aliases reliably distinguish this team from other Iranian representative sides?",
                "What reference date should govern the initial coach, squad, ranking, competition-state and readiness assessment?",
                "Which authoritative historical record should anchor match and appearance totals, and which recognition disputes must remain explicit?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 11,
                "findings": 18,
                "questions": 29
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "organisation or institution",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Iran men's national football team, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Iran's senior men's national association football team, assess its sporting and organisational state, and distinguish actions it may recommend from decisions reserved to authorised football bodies.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "social",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "collective"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Iran at the FIFA World Cup.",
                "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 80 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 Iran men's national football team, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Acts through people, and only through them.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "Iran at the FIFA World Cup"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 80 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 Iran men's national football team from another, and a Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "people-and-responsibility",
                        "name": "People, roles and responsibility",
                        "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Iran men's national football team.",
                        "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a Iran men's national football team and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a Iran men's national football team, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Iran men's national football team, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Iran men's national football team, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Iran men's national football team is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a Iran men's national football team and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a Iran men's national football team sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Iran men's national football team, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Iran men's national football team, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Iran men's national football team is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What Iran men's national football team is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does Iran men's national football team take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of Iran men's national football team, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in Iran men's national football team and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of Iran men's national football team may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Iran men's national football team have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team 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 Iran men's national football team is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Iran men's national football team, 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 Iran men's national football team, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
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