{ "model": { "rank": 5729, "code": "thing-q187878", "model_id": "vr.tr.khagan", "name": "khagan", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a person acting or identified as khagan, assess that person's claim and effective authority in context, and determine which acts may reasonably be attributed to that role.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q187878/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Khan of Heaven", "khagan of Avars", "Khagan of the Mongol Empire" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q187878", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q187878", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:08:47Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 14.4, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 120.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1e-bdb8-7bf0-a444-07ac72abab21\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Encyclopaedia Iranica: Khagan](https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/khagan/)", "Distinguish the human title bearer from the khaganate, dynasty and enduring office to which the person is linked.", "Separate entitlement to the title from effective command: exercising government for a khagan does not itself establish that a regent or commander holds the title.", "Treat an emperor identified as khagan as a potentially overlapping role of the same person, requiring evidence of title equivalence or concurrent titulature rather than creating another person." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested titulature", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Original written form, language, transliteration and contextual translation", "why_it_matters": "Recognises the role without collapsing distinct titles or mistaking a name for an office." }, { "name": "Title attribution basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-styled; locally conferred; externally attributed; retrospectively attributed; disputed; unknown; multiple values permitted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes evidence that someone used the title from evidence that others accepted the claim." }, { "name": "Role episode", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person linked to a particular khagan office or claim, political setting and dated interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates concurrent claims, restorations and changes of political setting." }, { "name": "Accession basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented combination of designation, descent, selection, enthronement, conquest or other locally specified basis; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Supports evaluation against the relevant succession practice without imposing a universal rule." }, { "name": "Recognition relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Recognising or rejecting actor, claimed capacity, evidence, conditions and interval", "why_it_matters": "Allows different constituencies to recognise competing khagans simultaneously." }, { "name": "Tenure status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Claimant; installed; deposed; abdicated; deceased; retrospective attribution only; uncertain, each qualified by date and viewpoint", "why_it_matters": "Prevents acts outside a supported tenure from being assigned automatically to the khagan role." }, { "name": "Effective authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named people, offices, forces or communities subject to evidenced command, with domain and interval", "why_it_matters": "Separates political obedience from nominal supremacy and territorial claims." }, { "name": "Prerogative assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each proposed act: attested as permitted; claimed; delegated; contested; prohibited; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports historically grounded decisions about attribution and authority without treating a title as unlimited power." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve variant references to a khagan while retaining original wording and uncertain identifications.", "Create or revise a dated title-holding or claimant episode from cited evidence.", "Compare rival khagans by accession basis and constituency-specific recognition without selecting a universal legitimate ruler by default.", "Assess whether an order, appointment or diplomatic act falls within the khagan's evidenced authority at that time.", "Trace delegated execution back to a khagan only when the delegation or attribution is supported.", "Flag disputed tenure boundaries, retrospective titulature and unsupported claims of supremacy for further research." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "khagan-identification", "name": "Khagan identification", "description": "Establish which person a khagan reference denotes and what the title means in that reference.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and title recognition must precede judgments about rank or authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "title-attestation", "name": "Title attestation", "description": "Preserve the wording and context supporting identification as khagan.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-khagan-designation", "name": "Attested khagan designation", "description": "Record the passage, inscription or other witness that assigns the title, including its date and relation to the person's lifetime.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact expression identifies this person as khagan, and what supports reading it as a title rather than a personal name?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-khagan-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Who produced the attestation, when, and does it report contemporary usage or assign the title retrospectively?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-khagan-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bearer-and-overlapping-titles", "name": "Bearer and overlapping titles", "description": "Resolve the person while retaining distinctions among their titles.", "findings": [ { "id": "khagan-person-role-match", "name": "Khagan person-role match", "description": "Connect references to the same person without assuming that khan, khagan and emperor are interchangeable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which names, dates, kinship references or political affiliations establish that these khagan references concern the same person?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "khagan-person-role-match-q01" }, { "text": "Are this person's other ruling titles equivalent translations, concurrent offices or titles belonging to different periods?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "khagan-person-role-match-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khagan-accession", "name": "Khagan accession", "description": "Describe how this person became eligible, claimed the title and entered the role.", "rationale": "A khagan's claim cannot be assessed through descent, conquest or ceremonial installation alone without local evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "eligibility-and-claim", "name": "Eligibility and claim", "description": "Identify the requirements invoked for this particular succession.", "findings": [ { "id": "grounds-for-khagan-claim", "name": "Grounds for khagan claim", "description": "Separate documented eligibility practices from arguments advanced by the claimant or later supporters.", "questions": [ { "text": "What descent, designation, selection or other grounds were invoked for this person's right to become khagan?", "kind": "definition", "id": "grounds-for-khagan-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources establish these grounds as applicable practice, and which merely advocate this claimant's legitimacy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "grounds-for-khagan-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "installation-and-entry", "name": "Installation and entry", "description": "Track the events asserted to establish a khagan's tenure.", "findings": [ { "id": "accession-threshold", "name": "Accession threshold", "description": "Keep proclamation, selection, enthronement and assumption of command distinct where the evidence distinguishes them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which event counted as becoming khagan for each relevant constituency, and who participated in or authorised it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "accession-threshold-q01" }, { "text": "What dates or date ranges distinguish the initial claim, installation and effective assumption of authority?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "accession-threshold-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khagan-recognition", "name": "Khagan recognition", "description": "Locate the title bearer's standing among constituencies, subordinate rulers and competing claimants.", "rationale": "Recognition of a khagan may differ between audiences and need not establish practical subordination.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognising-constituencies", "name": "Recognising constituencies", "description": "Attribute acceptance or rejection to identifiable actors and periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-evidence", "name": "Recognition evidence", "description": "Record the conduct or statements supporting recognition without treating every diplomatic address as allegiance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which communities, ruling groups or foreign courts accepted this person as khagan, and during which intervals?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish obedience, acknowledgment of rank, diplomatic courtesy or only the source author's terminology?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rivalry-and-precedence", "name": "Rivalry and precedence", "description": "Describe competing title claims and asserted rank relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "contested-khagan-standing", "name": "Contested khagan standing", "description": "Represent rivalry and precedence as evidenced relationships rather than a single global legitimacy score.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which other persons claimed the same khagan office or an incompatible supremacy during this episode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "contested-khagan-standing-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports this khagan's claimed precedence over particular khans or other rulers, and who disputed it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contested-khagan-standing-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khagan-authority", "name": "Khagan authority", "description": "Determine what the khagan could authorise and how far that authority operated in practice.", "rationale": "Title-based supremacy alone cannot justify attributing every governmental or military act to the title bearer.", "layers": [ { "id": "prerogatives-and-obedience", "name": "Prerogatives and obedience", "description": "Separate claimed competence from observed compliance.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-khagan-prerogatives", "name": "Supported khagan prerogatives", "description": "Assess particular powers, such as appointments or military commands, only where the relevant setting supplies evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which decisions were treated as the khagan's to make, and what customary, institutional or negotiated constraints applied?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-khagan-prerogatives-q01" }, { "text": "For a proposed act at a specified date, what evidence supports the khagan's competence and the affected actors' acceptance of it?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-khagan-prerogatives-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "delegation-and-divided-rule", "name": "Delegation and divided rule", "description": "Identify how the khagan role related to those who executed or independently controlled government.", "findings": [ { "id": "khagan-and-executive-actors", "name": "Khagan and executive actors", "description": "Distinguish personal command, delegated action, regency and separately grounded authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which regents, commanders or other officeholders acted for this khagan, and which exercised authority on another basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "khagan-and-executive-actors-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits attributing a particular subordinate's act to the khagan rather than merely to the same polity?", "kind": "action", "id": "khagan-and-executive-actors-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khagan-tenure-transitions", "name": "Khagan tenure transitions", "description": "Track interruption, termination, restoration and subsequent treatment of the title.", "rationale": "Loss of command, loss of recognition and cessation of title use can occur at different times.", "layers": [ { "id": "interruption-and-termination", "name": "Interruption and termination", "description": "Establish what ended or suspended each supported role episode.", "findings": [ { "id": "khagan-tenure-boundary", "name": "Khagan tenure boundary", "description": "Record death, abdication, deposition or other relevant transitions without silently choosing among disputed chronologies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which event ended or interrupted this person's khagan tenure, and whose account treats it as decisive?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "khagan-tenure-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "When did effective command, recognised officeholding and continued title use each cease, if they ceased at different times?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "khagan-tenure-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "restoration-and-later-attribution", "name": "Restoration and later attribution", "description": "Handle renewed tenure, continued pretension and posthumous designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "subsequent-khagan-status", "name": "Subsequent khagan status", "description": "Preserve later claims and naming practices without rewriting the person's earlier authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does later evidence indicate restored officeholding, a continuing claim, an honorific usage or a posthumous attribution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "subsequent-khagan-status-q01" }, { "text": "Should new evidence create a separate khagan episode, revise a disputed boundary or attach only a later title 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"archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a khagan, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a person acting or identified as khagan, assess that person's claim and effective authority in context, and determine which acts may reasonably be attributed to that role.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Khan of Heaven, khagan of Avars, Khagan of the Mongol Empire.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 khagan, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Khan of Heaven", "khagan of Avars", "Khagan of the Mongol Empire" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 khagan from another, and a khagan 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 khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan 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 khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a khagan is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a khagan is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a khagan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a khagan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a khagan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a khagan moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a khagan, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a khagan, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a khagan 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 khagan 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 khagan between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a khagan 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 khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan.", "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 khagan and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a khagan, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a khagan sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as khagan.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does khagan require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses khagan, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What khagan actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define khagan, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as khagan, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a khagan 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 khagan and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan 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 khagan is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a khagan, 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 khagan, 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 khagan is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }