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model owns siege as an episode of sustained hostile containment directed at a defended place and its occupants, including contested classifications, participants, restrictions, developments and termination; it excludes figurative uses of the word.", "in_scope": [ "Criteria for identifying a siege and distinguishing disputed or partial instances", "The defended place, its occupants, surrounding forces and external connections", "The extent, continuity and effects of hostile containment", "Changes in the siege, negotiations, relief and termination", "Consequences for civilians and essential services, with uncertainties and reported constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The encompassing war or campaign beyond its relationship to the siege", "Technical specifications or instructions for employing weapons and siege equipment", "Fortification design except as context for identifying the defended place", "Naval or economic blockades without an established relationship to a besieged place", "Generic supply-chain models and individual medical case records", "Figurative sieges, fictional game mechanics and ordinary political isolation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A candidate siege has an identifiable defended place whose external access is subjected to sustained hostile restriction; an attack alone does not establish a siege.", "Containment bears on the place and its occupants over time, rather than solely on a mobile force temporarily surrounded during combat.", "A siege can include bombardment or assault, but those activities must be recorded separately from the evidence establishing containment.", "A siege claim must specify which routes and movements are restricted; complete encirclement is a classification question rather than an automatic assumption.", "Descriptions such as blockade, encirclement and siege may overlap; the model records each source's criteria instead of treating these terms as interchangeable." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Classification 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"state", "unit_or_values": "forming | ongoing | temporarily interrupted | ended | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a pause or limited opening from termination of containment." }, { "name": "Termination mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "withdrawal | relief | negotiated settlement | surrender | capture | mixed | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records how the siege ended separately from who claims victory." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a reported episode meets an explicitly chosen definition of siege.", "Build a dated account of the defended place, participant roles and restrictions on access.", "Compare claims about containment, relief and surrender while preserving their provenance.", "Flag reported civilian needs, service failures and gaps in observations for further assessment.", "Track negotiated access commitments against evidence of actual passage.", "Explain whether an episode remains ongoing or has ended, including unresolved 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"text": "Which sources call this episode a siege, and which use a different classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-siege-designation-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes this episode from an assault, blockade or temporary encirclement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-siege-designation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-episode-boundaries", "name": "Place and episode boundaries", "description": "Identifies the contained place and determines whether adjacent events belong to the same siege.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-siege-episode", "name": "Bounded siege episode", "description": "Records dated spatial limits and continuity criteria without assuming that changing perimeters create new episodes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which defended place or connected set of positions is the object of containment, and how does that boundary change?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-siege-episode-q01" }, { "text": "What interruption would separate two sieges 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"id": "roles-and-stated-objectives-q01" }, { "text": "Who states each actor's objectives, and is the account a direct statement or an external interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "roles-and-stated-objectives-q02" }, { "text": "Which authorities can credibly make or implement agreements concerning access or surrender?", "kind": "action", "id": "roles-and-stated-objectives-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-and-movement", "name": "Population and movement", "description": "Describes the population inside the siege and its changing ability to move.", "findings": [ { "id": "people-within-containment", "name": "People within containment", "description": "Records population estimates, displacement and differentiated movement restrictions without equating residence with combatant status.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many people are estimated to be inside the contained area, on what date and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "people-within-containment-q01" }, { "text": "Which groups can enter or leave in practice, and what evidence establishes restrictions, coercion or other barriers?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "people-within-containment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-external-access", "name": "Containment and external access", "description": "Describes how external connections are restricted and whether apparent openings provide actual access.", "rationale": "The defining condition of a siege is sustained containment, whose extent cannot be inferred solely from a map or announcement.", "layers": [ { "id": "observed-containment", "name": "Observed containment", "description": "Records restrictions at a descriptive level across routes and types of movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "extent-and-continuity-of-restriction", "name": "Extent and continuity of restriction", "description": "Distinguishes physical surrounding from observed restrictions on people, goods and communications.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which external 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with the stated arrangement and assessed needs?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "promised-versus-realised-access-q02" }, { "text": "What further verification is needed before treating an announced opening as usable access?", "kind": "action", "id": "promised-versus-realised-access-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "civilian-conditions-and-consequences", "name": "Civilian conditions and consequences", "description": "Records deprivation, service disruption and harm with explicit evidential and causal limits.", "rationale": "Assessing a siege requires understanding conditions inside the place without assuming every observed harm was caused by containment.", "layers": [ { "id": "essential-needs-and-services", "name": "Essential needs and services", "description": "Assesses reported availability and distribution of necessities within the contained area.", "findings": [ { "id": "availability-and-distribution-of-necessities", "name": "Availability and distribution of necessities", "description": "Records food, water, shelter, energy and healthcare conditions, distinguishing aggregate availability from access by particular groups.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated measurements or observations describe access to food, water, shelter, energy and healthcare?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "availability-and-distribution-of-necessities-q01" }, { "text": "Which neighbourhoods or population groups face different conditions, and what evidence supports those differences?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "availability-and-distribution-of-necessities-q02" }, { "text": "Which reported unmet needs warrant referral for assessment or assistance, and which remain unverified?", "kind": "action", "id": "availability-and-distribution-of-necessities-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "harm-and-attribution", "name": "Harm and attribution", "description": "Separates observed consequences from explanations and formal assessments of responsibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-harm-and-causal-limits", "name": "Documented harm and causal limits", "description": "Records reported deaths, injuries, displacement and damage with methods, uncertainty and attributed causal accounts.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were reported casualties, displacement and damage counted, and what omissions or duplication may affect those counts?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "documented-harm-and-causal-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects a reported harm to containment, direct hostilities, internal distribution failures or another cause?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-harm-and-causal-limits-q02" }, { "text": "Which allegations or formal findings concern conduct during the siege, and who issued each assessment under which stated framework?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-harm-and-causal-limits-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "siege-course-and-termination", "name": "Siege course and termination", "description": "Tracks meaningful changes and establishes whether containment has actually ended.", "rationale": "Assaults, negotiations, temporary openings and relief attempts can change a siege without terminating it.", "layers": [ { "id": "phases-and-transitions", "name": "Phases and transitions", "description": "Builds a chronology around changes in containment and conditions inside the place.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-phase-changes", "name": "Evidenced phase changes", "description": "Records the onset, intensification, interruption and resumption of containment as evidenced transitions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which dated observations establish the onset of sustained containment rather than the beginning of nearby fighting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidenced-phase-changes-q01" }, { "text": "Which events materially changed access, control or conditions, and how certain are their dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidenced-phase-changes-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ending-and-residual-restrictions", "name": "Ending and residual restrictions", "description": "Separates announced endings and claimed victories from observed cessation of siege conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "termination-basis-and-outcome", "name": "Termination basis and outcome", "description": "Records how containment ended, competing end dates and restrictions that persisted afterward.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable change supports marking the siege ended rather than temporarily interrupted?", "kind": "definition", "id": "termination-basis-and-outcome-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources support the termination mechanism and date, and where do their accounts disagree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "termination-basis-and-outcome-q02" }, { "text": "Which continuing restrictions or consequences belong to occupation, blockade, displacement or recovery models after termination?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "termination-basis-and-outcome-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", 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"evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of siege this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Siege of a fortress or fortified position", "Siege of a city", "Siege of a coastal stronghold involving naval blockade" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of siege 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": [ "Hague Regulations annexed to Hague Convention IV (1907), adopted by the Second Hague Peace Conference: rules concerning bombardment, sieges and the conduct of 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "poliorcetica", "siege warfare in antiquity", "siege in the Middle Ages", "Siegecraft in Ancient Greece" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 80 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 siege from another, and a siege 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 siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege 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 siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege 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 siege between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a siege 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 siege, 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 siege, 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 siege is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a siege proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a siege, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a siege and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a siege, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a siege, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a siege is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a siege consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a siege takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a siege, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a siege, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a siege is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What siege is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of siege are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is siege operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of siege and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of siege?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as siege?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a siege 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 siege and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a siege, 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 siege, 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 siege 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 siege is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a siege, 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 siege, 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 siege is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }