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Semitic language and several prominent early second-millennium BCE ruling dynasties.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the registered collective Amorites (vr.tr.amorites), including the interpretation of its names, attributed populations, historical settings and relationships; SOC.ORG is treated as a registry placement rather than evidence of a unified institution.", "in_scope": [ "Time-specific and source-specific uses of Amorite identity labels", "Evidence connecting named people, groups or dynasties with Amorites", "Geographic distribution and movement claims with explicit uncertainty", "Political, linguistic and social associations attributed to Amorite populations", "Differences between contemporary attestations, later traditions and modern classifications" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete histories of individual kingdoms, cities or dynasties associated with Amorites", "A standalone grammar or lexicon of the Amorite language", "Amurru as an independently modelled territory or political entity", "Biblical texts and their complete theological interpretation", "Archaeological cultures treated independently of evidence for Amorite attribution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a historically attributed population or collective, rather than a formally registered organisation with continuous governance.", "An occurrence of Amorites must be distinguished from a related geographic, linguistic or political designation by examining its source context.", "A proposed Amorite identification must specify whether it rests on an explicit population label, personal names, political association or a modern inference.", "Shared linguistic or naming evidence does not by itself establish that people belonged to one polity or identified themselves as one people.", "A later narrative reference and a contemporary attestation cannot be treated as interchangeable evidence for the same historical population." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Attested designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Original spelling or transliteration; source language; translated label", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to distinguish the source's terminology from a modern normalisation to Amorites." }, { "name": "Identity attribution basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicit self-designation; external designation; onomastic inference; linguistic inference; political association; later tradition; disputed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents different strengths and kinds of identification from collapsing into a single membership assertion." }, { "name": "Temporal placement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Date or interval in BCE/CE, with chronology convention and uncertainty; source date and referent date recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Makes changes in the label's meaning and retrospective attribution visible." }, { "name": "Geographic association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced place or region, with association type, date interval and confidence", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an attestation location from an inferred homeland, residence or migration destination." }, { "name": "Political affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person or group linked to polity or dynasty, with role, period and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports political analysis without assuming that a ruler's attributed identity characterises every subject." }, { "name": "Claim assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed; supported within stated scope; contested; insufficient evidence; superseded", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether an agent may use an attribution directly or must retain it as a qualified hypothesis." }, { "name": "Social configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-described kin group, mobile community, settled community, ruling lineage, mixed configuration or unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a single social description from 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"layers": [ { "id": "source-terminology", "name": "Source terminology", "description": "Records the expression used by a source and the grounds for rendering it as Amorite.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-in-context", "name": "Designation in context", "description": "Require the original designation, its passage and its proposed referent before accepting an Amorite identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which expression is translated as Amorite or Amorites, and what does it designate in this passage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "designation-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which edition, translation or lexical analysis supports that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designation-in-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "collective-boundaries", "name": "Collective boundaries", "description": "Separates population attribution from linguistic, territorial and institutional identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "people-place-and-polity-separation", "name": "People, place 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"attestation-chronology", "name": "Attestation chronology", "description": "Separates when a source was produced from the period it describes.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-and-referent-dates", "name": "Source and referent dates", "description": "Require separate temporal assessments for the surviving witness, its composition and its claimed historical setting where relevant.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was the witness produced, and what interval does its reference to Amorites concern?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "source-and-referent-dates-q01" }, { "text": "Is the attribution contemporary, retrospective or dependent on an earlier source that must be identified?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-and-referent-dates-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "distribution-and-movement", "name": "Distribution and movement", "description": "Distinguishes places of evidence from claims about residence, origins and migration.", "findings": [ { "id": "geographic-claim-resolution", "name": "Geographic claim resolution", "description": "Treat Amorite presence, movement and origin as separate propositions requiring their own support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence locate Amorite people, a source mentioning them or a place associated with the label?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "geographic-claim-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes population movement from changed terminology, political expansion or uneven source survival?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "geographic-claim-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "amorite-affiliation-and-social-organisation", "name": "Amorite affiliation and social organisation", "description": "Evaluates how people and communities are connected to Amorite identity and to political or social formations.", "rationale": "The model must accommodate collective identification without inventing a single Amorite government, membership register or uniform way of life.", "layers": [ { "id": "identity-and-language-evidence", "name": "Identity and language evidence", "description": "Assesses explicit labels alongside personal-name and linguistic arguments.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-and-group-attribution", "name": "Person and group attribution", "description": "Keep an individual's proposed Amorite affiliation distinct from the identity of their household, dynasty or community.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the identification explicit in a source or inferred from names, language or associated people?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "person-and-group-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What justifies extending this person's attribution to a lineage or population, and where must that extension stop?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "person-and-group-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "political-and-livelihood-configurations", "name": "Political and livelihood configurations", "description": "Records specific political roles and social practices without making them universal ethnic 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[ { "id": "traditions-and-material-attribution", "name": "Traditions and material attribution", "description": "Tests proposed connections between textual populations, later narrative categories and archaeological evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "cross-evidence-identification", "name": "Cross-evidence identification", "description": "Require an explicit argument before equating Amorites in different textual traditions or assigning archaeological remains to them.", "questions": [ { "text": "What supports connecting a biblical reference to Amorites with the population meant in a particular cuneiform source?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cross-evidence-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What independent evidence supports an Amorite attribution for the settlement, burial or artefact assemblage under discussion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cross-evidence-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualified-use-and-revision", "name": "Qualified use and revision", "description": "Makes 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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": [ "Historical study of population identities, mobility and settlement in the ancient Near East.", "Analysis of Amorite-associated dynasties, including the First Dynasty of Babylon.", "Reconstruction of the Amorite language primarily through personal names preserved in cuneiform texts.", "Interpretation of references to Amorites in biblical literature alongside other ancient evidence." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Amorites 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 the Amorites as a single formally constituted organisation, unified state or consistently bounded ethnic group.", "Assuming that Mesopotamian and biblical uses of the name identify exactly the same populations.", "Equating an Amorite personal name with certain ancestry or everyday language use.", "Assigning archaeological objects or settlements an Amorite identity without supporting textual evidence.", "Treating the later kingdom of Amurru as equivalent to all populations called Amorites." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Amorites 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": [ "Mesopotamian texts associate Amorites with western populations; Amorite-associated rulers also 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ancient sources; none of these alone denotes all Amorite populations." }, { "name": "Canaanites", "difference": "Canaanite is another historically variable regional and population designation that can overlap with Amorite usage but is not a universal synonym." }, { "name": "Babylonians", "difference": "Babylonian describes an association with Babylonia and its society; Amorite-associated dynastic origins do not make the entire Babylonian population Amorite." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Amorites this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which historical senses and periods does the source registry intend vr.tr.amorites to include, given its missing definition?", "Which primary-source designations can be mapped to Amorites in which contexts, and where are translations or referents disputed?", "What evidence supports connections or discontinuities between Amorites in cuneiform sources and Amorites in biblical traditions?", "How reliably can personal names and linguistic features establish individual or collective Amorite affiliation?", "Which proposed origins, movements and archaeological associations are sufficiently supported to record beyond explicitly labelled hypotheses?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 21 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 70 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 Amorites from another, and a Amorites 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites 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 Amorites between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Amorites 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites.", "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 Amorites and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Amorites, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Amorites sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What Amorites is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does Amorites take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of Amorites, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in Amorites and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of Amorites may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Amorites have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Amorites 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 Amorites and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 Amorites is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Amorites, 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 Amorites, 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 Amorites 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 } } } }