{ "model": { "rank": 5448, "code": "thing-q201028", "model_id": "vr.tr.khmer-people", "name": "Khmer people", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise references to Khmer people, assess how their communities are described, and support culturally appropriate research and engagement without equating ethnicity with citizenship, language or religion.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q201028/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Srindravarman", "Northern Khmer people" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q201028", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201028", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:24:05Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.3, "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: 01a08844-6553-7671-83cf-c7c521de3b45\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"name": "Identification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Collective self-description, individual self-identification, administrative classification, scholarly attribution, contested or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes how a description was established and prevents an external label from silently becoming a membership rule." }, { "name": "Community designation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community name linked to its preferred wording, source, geographic context and relationship to the broader Khmer designation", "why_it_matters": "Allows investigation of labels such as Khmer Krom or Northern Khmer without assuming their meaning or acceptance is uniform." }, { "name": "Geographic and migration context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Community connections to localities, countries, migration destinations and time periods", "why_it_matters": "Separates ethnic identification from present residence, nationality and assumptions about a single 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historical claims to their sources, custodians and unresolved disagreements.", "Flag unsupported generalisations and requests to infer an individual's ethnicity from indirect cues." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "khmer-identification-and-boundaries", "name": "Khmer identification and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what the Khmer designation refers to and how collective or community identification is evidenced.", "rationale": "The model must distinguish ethnic identification from nationality, language and political labels before applying any description.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-self-description", "name": "Names and self-description", "description": "Records Khmer designations in the wording and context used by communities and sources.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-khmer-designation", "name": "Attributed Khmer designation", "description": "A designation needs an attributed speaker or source, a referent and a usage context; alternative 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including Khmer Krom and Northern Khmer require locally sourced definitions and relationships to the registry entry; they do not automatically justify separate models.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do sources and community members define Khmer Krom and Northern Khmer in the locality being described?", "kind": "definition", "id": "regional-labels-and-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Does the label denote a regional community, a linguistic grouping, a political identification or overlapping categories?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "regional-labels-and-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "enumeration-and-diaspora", "name": "Enumeration and diaspora", "description": "Evaluates population evidence and the treatment of dispersed or multiply identified populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-khmer-population-counts", "name": "Comparable Khmer population counts", "description": "Population estimates must retain whether they count ethnicity, ancestry, language, citizenship or birthplace and how migration and multiple responses affect totals.", "questions": [ { "text": "What population definition, reference year and territorial coverage produced this estimate of Khmer people?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-khmer-population-counts-q01" }, { "text": "How are diaspora members, mixed ancestry and possible overlap between estimates handled?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-khmer-population-counts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khmer-language-and-cultural-transmission", "name": "Khmer language and cultural transmission", "description": "Records how particular communities sustain, adapt or recover linguistic and cultural practices.", "rationale": "Cultural recognition and engagement require local evidence rather than a fixed checklist of supposedly universal Khmer traits.", "layers": [ { "id": "language-use-and-access", "name": "Language use and access", "description": "Relates language repertoires and literacy to practical participation.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-language-requirements", "name": "Community language requirements", "description": "Communication needs should be established for the community and activity concerned, including spoken variety, script literacy and other languages used.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which spoken varieties and written languages do participants prefer for this activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-language-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence describes Khmer language transmission across generations in this community?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "community-language-requirements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "practices-and-heritage-custodianship", "name": "Practices and heritage custodianship", "description": "Connects cultural and religious practices to their practitioners, settings and conditions of use.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-khmer-cultural-practice", "name": "Situated Khmer cultural practice", "description": "Claims concerning Khmer New Year, Buddhist observances, ancestor-related practices, dance or other heritage should identify the communities concerned and document variation and access expectations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practitioners support this account, and where do practices or interpretations differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-khmer-cultural-practice-q01" }, { "text": "What consultation or permission do custodians request before recording, translating or reusing this material?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-khmer-cultural-practice-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khmer-historical-experience-and-memory", "name": "Khmer historical experience and memory", "description": "Connects historical narratives and disruptive events to specific communities and sources.", "rationale": "References to Angkor, political upheaval and displacement can otherwise collapse different periods and experiences into a single ethnic biography.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-continuity-claims", "name": "Historical 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"description": "Records community-specific accounts of violence, migration and rebuilding without defining people solely through trauma.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-disruption-and-recovery", "name": "Situated disruption and recovery", "description": "Accounts involving the Khmer Rouge period, refugee journeys or later recovery must specify affected communities and distinguish perpetrators, survivors, descendants and present populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events and migration pathways are documented for this community, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-disruption-and-recovery-q01" }, { "text": "How should testimony be used in accordance with contributors' consent and preferences about identification or retelling?", "kind": "action", "id": "situated-disruption-and-recovery-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "khmer-representation-and-agent-action", "name": "Khmer representation and agent action", "description": "Determines how agents may use collective 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"id": "bounded-representative-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "appropriate-collective-description", "name": "Appropriate collective description", "description": "Controls generalisation and the transition from community information to decisions affecting people.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-bounded-use", "name": "Evidence-bounded use", "description": "Descriptions should retain community, date and source boundaries; collective patterns must not become individual identity assignments or assumptions about beliefs and behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence concern Khmer people broadly or only a particular locality, generation or study sample?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-bounded-use-q01" }, { "text": "Can the proposed action use expressed preferences directly instead of inferring ethnicity, religion or political views?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-bounded-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and 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"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Khmer people 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": [ "Khmer Krom communities of the Mekong Delta", "Northern Khmer communities of northeastern Thailand" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Khmer people 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": [ "Self-identification and recognition of community membership", "Demographic study of ethnicity, language and migration", "Preservation and transmission of Khmer cultural heritage", "Research into Cambodian and mainland Southeast 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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": [ "Srindravarman", "Northern Khmer people" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 Khmer people from another, and a Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people.", "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 Khmer people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Khmer people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Khmer people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people.", "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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 Khmer people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Khmer people, 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 Khmer people, 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 Khmer people 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 } } } }