{ "model": { "rank": 5198, "code": "thing-q19188", "model_id": "vr.tr.mainland-china", "name": "mainland China", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to mainland China, establish their geographic and contextual scope, and decide whether a location-based inference or action is justified.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.PLC", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q19188/", "tier": 2, "score": 69, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 69, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q19188", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19188", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:52:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08827-98dd-7822-9994-93828095a83b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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and its administered islands, while ordinarily including Hainan and other PRC-administered offshore islands.", "scope_statement": "This model owns mainland China as a context-dependent geographic designation under vr.tr.mainland-china, including its names, interpreted extent and source-attributed boundaries, without equating it with a sovereign state, government or population.", "in_scope": [ "Geographic and institutional meanings of mainland China and the contexts that distinguish them", "Context-specific inclusion or exclusion of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and offshore islands", "Source-attributed geographic representations, coordinate reference systems and dates", "Multilingual names and relationships to gazetteer records", "Evidence needed to apply the designation to addresses, datasets and service coverage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The People's Republic of China as a sovereign-state or government model", "Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as separately modelled places", "Chinese populations, citizenship, ethnicity and cultural identity", "The internal workings of provincial and local administrations", "Substantive laws, customs rules and commercial service policies", "China's complete physical geography and natural environments" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A reference to the People's Republic of China does not by itself establish that the intended extent is mainland China; the source's scope must be checked.", "The conventional designation is not necessarily restricted to land physically connected to the Asian continent; Hainan is a useful test of the intended meaning.", "Hong Kong and Macao are commonly distinguished from mainland China in institutional usage, so a source that includes them requires an explicit interpretation.", "A reference to Taiwan must preserve the source's geographic or institutional distinction without converting that distinction into an unqualified sovereignty claim.", "The designation identifies an area under a stated interpretation, rather than everyone who is Chinese or every place associated with Chinese culture." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Interpretive context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Conventional geographic, physical continental, administrative, statistical, legal or commercial usage", "why_it_matters": "The same name can select different extents depending on why it is used." }, { "name": "Territorial inclusion decisions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named territory or island → included, excluded, partly included or unresolved, with source and date", "why_it_matters": "Explicit decisions prevent assumptions about Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and offshore islands." }, { "name": "Extent representation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Territory list, polygon, multipolygon, approximate envelope or textual definition", "why_it_matters": "A textual regional designation may not support precise spatial operations." }, { "name": "Spatial reference and precision", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Declared coordinate reference system, coordinate convention, resolution and positional uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Location matching is unreliable when coordinate conventions or boundary precision are unknown." }, { "name": "Name and identifier correspondence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Language-tagged names and verified gazetteer identifiers, with exact, broader, narrower or contextual match", "why_it_matters": "A similarly named gazetteer entry may represent China as a whole or a different regional interpretation." }, { "name": "Boundary evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Source-supported, conflicting, outdated or unresolved; record publisher, claimant where applicable, and effective date", "why_it_matters": "An agent must distinguish evidence of an adopted boundary from evidence that all parties accept it." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a mention of mainland China to an explicit geographic interpretation.", "Classify a location as included, excluded or unresolved under a selected source and date.", "Compare mainland-China coverage across datasets while exposing differences in island and territorial treatment.", "Display an attributed extent with appropriate uncertainty and disputed-boundary annotations.", "Identify when an address-routing, reporting or service-eligibility decision requires a separate governing policy." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "mainland-meaning-and-names", "name": "Mainland meaning and names", "description": "Establish what a speaker or publisher means by mainland China and how that meaning is expressed across languages.", "rationale": "The designation can be confused with China, the People's Republic of China or the physically continental landmass.", "layers": [ { "id": "contextual-meaning", "name": "Contextual meaning", "description": "Separate conventional regional usage from literal continental and institution-specific meanings.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-requires-context", "name": "Meaning requires context", "description": "Record the interpretation used by the originating source before attaching a territorial extent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this source use mainland China as a conventional region, a physical landmass or an institution-defined area?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-requires-context-q01" }, { "text": "What explicit wording distinguishes its use of mainland China from China or the People's Republic of China?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-requires-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "multilingual-reference", "name": "Multilingual reference", "description": "Connect English and Chinese expressions to the intended sense without assuming exact equivalence.", "findings": [ { "id": "names-preserve-viewpoint", "name": "Names preserve viewpoint", "description": "Treat mainland China, 中国大陆, 中國大陸 and context-dependent expressions such as 内地 or 內地 as names requiring source and usage context.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which original-language expression appears in the source, and from which regional or institutional context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "names-preserve-viewpoint-q01" }, { "text": "Does a candidate GeoNames or Wikidata record represent this same sense, or a broader or narrower place?", "kind": "definition", "id": "names-preserve-viewpoint-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territories-and-island-inclusion", "name": "Territories and island inclusion", "description": "Make the designation's most consequential inclusion decisions explicit.", "rationale": "Neither the word mainland nor a state boundary alone resolves the treatment of special administrative regions, Taiwan or islands.", "layers": [ { "id": "hong-kong-macao-taiwan", "name": "Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan", "description": "Record how the selected interpretation treats these places and why.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-scope-from-sovereignty", "name": "Separate scope from sovereignty", "description": "Preserve territorial inclusion decisions as attributed scope decisions, without treating them as universal conclusions about political status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source explicitly exclude or include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and for what purpose?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "separate-scope-from-sovereignty-q01" }, { "text": "Which publisher or authority supplied those decisions, and do its statements concern geographic coverage, jurisdiction or sovereignty?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "separate-scope-from-sovereignty-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continental-and-offshore-land", "name": "Continental and offshore land", "description": "Distinguish physical connection to the continent from membership in the named region.", "findings": [ { "id": "islands-need-explicit-treatment", "name": "Islands need explicit treatment", "description": "Use Hainan and source-relevant coastal or disputed islands to test whether the extent follows conventional usage, physical geography or an administrative selection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is Hainan included despite its separation from the continental landmass, and what does that reveal about the definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "islands-need-explicit-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "Which additional islands or island groups require explicit inclusion decisions rather than inference from a national outline?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "islands-need-explicit-treatment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mapped-extent-and-boundary-evidence", "name": "Mapped extent and boundary evidence", "description": "Connect the interpreted region to spatial evidence that can support appropriate geographic operations.", "rationale": "A map labelled mainland China may encode a publisher's territorial claims, simplifications or coordinate conventions.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry-and-coordinates", "name": "Geometry and coordinates", "description": "Document how the selected extent is represented and positioned.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-must-match-meaning", "name": "Geometry must match meaning", "description": "Accept a spatial representation only when its territorial content and coordinate reference agree with the intended interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What boundary dataset implements this definition, and how does it encode excluded territories and included islands?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "geometry-must-match-meaning-q01" }, { "text": "What coordinate reference system, coordinate convention and resolution apply, and are they compatible with the locations being tested?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "geometry-must-match-meaning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claims-dates-and-limits", "name": "Claims, dates and limits", "description": "Expose the authority, temporal validity and limitations of mapped boundaries.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-is-attributed-evidence", "name": "Boundary is attributed evidence", "description": "Distinguish coastlines, administrative selections, effective control and territorial claims wherever they affect the adopted extent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who published the boundary, what date does it represent, and whose claims or administrative practice does it encode?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "boundary-is-attributed-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the representation cover land only, inland waters or maritime areas, and where do conflicting interpretations remain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "boundary-is-attributed-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mainland-classification-and-use", "name": "Mainland classification and use", "description": "Determine which practical decisions the selected interpretation can support.", "rationale": "A geographic mainland label does not automatically establish statistical comparability, jurisdiction or commercial eligibility.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-dataset-matching", "name": "Location and dataset matching", "description": "Apply an explicit interpretation to addresses, coordinates and regional aggregates.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-retains-scope", "name": "Classification retains scope", "description": "Return inclusion results with the chosen definition and preserve unresolved cases instead of forcing a binary decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there enough address or coordinate evidence to classify this location under the selected mainland-China extent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "classification-retains-scope-q01" }, { "text": "Before combining datasets labelled mainland China, do their treatment of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and islands agree?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-retains-scope-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "policy-dependent-actions", "name": "Policy-dependent actions", "description": "Connect geographic classifications to separately evidenced rules for reporting, routing or service coverage.", "findings": [ { "id": "geography-does-not-complete-eligibility", "name": "Geography does not complete eligibility", "description": "Require the relevant policy's own mainland-China definition before using regional membership to decide an action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current policy governs the proposed delivery, service or reporting action, and how does it define mainland China?", "kind": "action", "id": "geography-does-not-complete-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "What should the agent do when the policy's coverage differs from the selected geographic extent or leaves a location unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "geography-does-not-complete-eligibility-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 is recalled knowledge, without source verification.", "No registry sense was supplied; this description adopts the usual geographic and jurisdictional usage.", "Before assigning geometry or numerical measurements, verify territorial coverage, boundary authority, disputed-area treatment, date and coordinate reference system." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of mainland China 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": "ISO 3166-1", "value_or_pattern": "CN / CHN / 156", "note": "These identify China; they are not dedicated identifiers for the context-dependent extent of mainland China." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of mainland China 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": [ "Distinguishing mainland markets and operations from those in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.", "Defining coverage for statistical reporting, subject to each publisher's territorial notes.", "Describing cross-border travel, trade and migration involving Hong Kong and Macao.", "Discussing cross-strait economic, cultural and political relations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of mainland China 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": [ "Treating mainland China as synonymous with the People's Republic of China in every context.", "Interpreting mainland literally and incorrectly excluding Hainan.", "Combining population, area or economic statistics with different territorial coverage.", "Presenting an administrative coverage convention as a settlement of sovereignty disputes.", "Using a country code as though it specified an exact mainland boundary." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of mainland China 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": [ "In Hong Kong and Macao, mainland commonly distinguishes the rest of PRC-administered territory from the two special administrative regions.", "In Taiwan, mainland is used in cross-strait discourse; legal and political usages require their own definitions.", "In physical geography, mainland can mean the continental landmass, a narrower sense than the usual jurisdictional usage." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of mainland China 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": "People's Republic of China", "difference": "A state whose administration includes Hong Kong 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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 mainland China, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to mainland China, establish their geographic and contextual scope, and decide whether a location-based inference or action is justified.", "characteristics": { "substance": "place", "origin": "natural", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "fixed", "scale": "geographic" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured", "entered, crossed or travelled along" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 69 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 mainland China, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a portion of the world with an extent", "physicalCharacter": [ "On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.", "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state", "enter it, cross it, travel along it" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 69 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one mainland China from another, and a mainland China 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a mainland China is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at geographic scale.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a mainland China, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a mainland China, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a mainland China is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a mainland China, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a mainland China, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a mainland China is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a mainland China, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a mainland China, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a mainland China 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 mainland China is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).", "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 mainland China is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China 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 mainland China between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a mainland China 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-operation", "name": "Use and operation", "description": "What can be done with a mainland China and what it takes to do it.", "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-use", "name": "Intended use and function", "description": "What a mainland China is for, and what it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose", "name": "Function, purpose and misuse", "description": "The function a mainland China performs and the uses that fall outside it.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-and-purpose-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a mainland China, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a mainland China, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "function-and-purpose-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-procedure", "name": "Handling and procedure", "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a mainland China.", "findings": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills", "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools", "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a mainland China at all.", "questions": [ { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes handling a mainland China, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a mainland China, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "extent-and-geometry", "name": "Extent, geometry and naming", "description": "Where mainland China is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.", "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.", "layers": [ { "id": "geometry", "name": "Geometry and reference system", "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "geometry-record", "name": "Geometry, precision and frame", "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.", "questions": [ { "id": "geometry-record-q01", "text": "What geometry describes mainland China, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "geometry-record-q02", "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names", "name": "Names and endonyms", "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.", "findings": [ { "id": "naming-record", "name": "Names and who uses them", "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.", "questions": [ { "id": "naming-record-q01", "text": "By what names is mainland China known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "naming-record-q02", "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "containment-and-access", "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access", "description": "What mainland China sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.", "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.", "layers": [ { "id": "containment", "name": "Administrative containment", "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.", "findings": [ { "id": "containment-record", "name": "Containing units and effective dates", "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.", "questions": [ { "id": "containment-record-q01", "text": "Which administrative units contain mainland China, and since when does each containment hold?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "containment-record-q02", "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "access", "name": "Access and permitted use", "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and their source", "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "Who may enter or use mainland China, under what conditions, and by whose rule?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a mainland China 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 mainland China and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China 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 mainland China is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a mainland China, 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 mainland China, 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 mainland China is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 53 } } } }