{ "model": { "rank": 5709, "code": "thing-q204310", "model_id": "vr.tr.gendarmerie", "name": "gendarmerie", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a gendarmerie, assess its institutional and operational state, and identify which policing or military tasks it may lawfully undertake under the applicable authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q204310/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Royal Laotian Gendarmerie" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q204310", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204310", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:05:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 67.1, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 104.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1b-f3a7-72e3-b8d8-b0a9be2f0972\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[FIEP](https://www.fiep.org/)", "Test for an established policing remit over civilians, distinguishing the institution from a force whose remit is confined to service personnel and military establishments; France provides a documented example combining policing and military missions. [Gendarmerie missions](https://www.gendarmerie.interieur.gouv.fr/presentation/les-missions-de-la-gendarmerie-nationale)", "Test whether civilian law enforcement is a standing institutional responsibility rather than a temporary domestic deployment of ordinary armed forces.", "Test whether the referent is an enduring organisation with its own mandate and command structure, rather than a tactical police unit described informally as paramilitary.", "Treat the name 'gendarmerie', rural deployment and affiliation with an international association as supporting evidence, not individually sufficient classification tests." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Institutional classification basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Statutory gendarmerie; functionally comparable force; historical designation; disputed; unresolved, with dated evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a name or visual resemblance from determining institutional identity." }, { "name": "Military status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Current; partial or mixed; former; absent; unresolved, identifying whether status attaches to the institution, personnel or both", "why_it_matters": "Determines which military obligations and governance arrangements require examination." }, { "name": "Authorised mission portfolio", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-backed subset of civilian policing, criminal investigation, public order, military policing, defence, border duties and other statutory missions", "why_it_matters": "Separates verified responsibilities from duties merely associated with gendarmeries elsewhere." }, { "name": "Mission-specific directing authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Mission and legal context linked to administrative supervisor, operational commander and judicial directing authority where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who may assign, direct, constrain or terminate a particular task." }, { "name": "Jurisdiction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Territories, populations, facilities and subject matters linked to competence, exclusions and effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Establishes where and over whom the force may exercise each power." }, { "name": "Authority activation condition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Standing mandate; requisition; judicial authorisation; emergency measure; international mandate; other evidenced condition; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an available capability from permission to employ it." }, { "name": "Mission-qualified deployable strength", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of personnel or formed units available for a specified mission, location and time, with qualification and availability criteria", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating total establishment strength as immediately usable policing capacity." }, { "name": "Operational posture", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Routine service; reinforced service; mobilisation; external deployment; restricted operations; transition; inactive; unresolved, by component and date", "why_it_matters": "Shows which parts of the institution are available and which additional conditions govern their use." }, { "name": "Oversight and corrective obligations", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Competent oversight bodies linked to jurisdiction, substantiated findings, binding measures and review dates", "why_it_matters": "Makes accountability and operative restrictions part of the assessment of permissible action." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a registered organisation fits the gendarmerie concept and explain unresolved classification evidence.", "Identify the competent component and directing authority for a proposed policing or military task.", "Check proposed task eligibility against jurisdiction, powers, activation conditions and current restrictions.", "Assess whether mission-qualified capacity is available without equating military capability with policing authority.", "Identify required coordination or handover to civilian police, judicial authorities or armed forces.", "Flag institutional changes, oversight measures or stale evidence that require reassessment before action." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "gendarmerie-identity-and-status", "name": "Gendarmerie identity and status", "description": "Establish what institution is being modelled and the evidence for its combination of policing responsibilities and military status.", "rationale": "The label alone cannot establish that an organisation is a gendarmerie or that its present status matches its historical identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "constitutive-identity", "name": "Constitutive identity", "description": "Anchor the organisation to its constitutive instruments and institutional lineage.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-continuity", "name": "Institutional continuity", "description": "Record creation, renaming, merger, dissolution and succession 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personnel, and what obligations follow from that status?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What standing remit authorises policing of civilians and distinguishes the force from military police with exclusively service-related jurisdiction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "classification-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "mission-authority-and-command", "name": "Mission authority and command", "description": "Represent who governs the force and who may direct it in each policing or military capacity.", "rationale": "Institutional supervision, operational command and judicial direction may differ; a model must establish the actual arrangement rather than assume universal dual subordination.", "layers": [ { "id": "authority-by-mission", "name": "Authority by mission", "description": "Connect each authorised mission to the authorities responsible for its direction.", "findings": [ { "id": "direction-and-command", "name": "Direction and command", "description": "Distinguish administrative supervision, operational tasking and any judicial direction or supervision.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each civilian policing, investigative and military mission, which authority may assign tasks and which commander issues operational orders?", "kind": "definition", "id": "direction-and-command-q01" }, { "text": "Which instrument resolves conflicting directions or transfers operational control between authorities?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "direction-and-command-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activation-and-regime-change", "name": "Activation and regime change", "description": "Capture conditions that activate duties or alter command and applicable powers.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-employment", "name": "Conditional employment", "description": "Record required requisitions, authorisations, mobilisation measures or external mandates and their limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the proposed mission fall within standing authority, or require a requisition, judicial authorisation or other activating instrument?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-employment-q01" }, { "text": "What changes to command, powers and termination conditions apply when the force enters an emergency, military or external-deployment role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditional-employment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "policing-jurisdiction-and-interfaces", "name": "Policing jurisdiction and interfaces", "description": "Identify the force's legal field of action and its interfaces with neighbouring security and justice institutions.", "rationale": "A gendarmerie's remit cannot be inferred from rural deployment, national reach or its military character.", "layers": [ { "id": "competence-boundaries", "name": "Competence boundaries", "description": "Specify territorial, personal and subject-matter limits for each mission.", "findings": [ { "id": "jurisdictional-fit", "name": "Jurisdictional fit", "description": "Distinguish assigned service areas from the legal reach of particular powers.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the relevant place, persons and alleged conduct, which instrument establishes this force's competence and exclusions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "jurisdictional-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Under what conditions may a component act outside its normal service area, and which powers remain available there?", "kind": "action", "id": "jurisdictional-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-policing-responsibility", "name": "Shared policing responsibility", "description": "Represent concurrent duties and transfer arrangements with other competent bodies.", "findings": [ { "id": "lead-support-and-handover", "name": "Lead, support and handover", "description": "Record when the gendarmerie leads, supports or transfers responsibility in overlapping jurisdictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where civilian police, border services or military police also have competence, what determines the lead institution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lead-support-and-handover-q01" }, { "text": "What coordination, notification or handover is required before the gendarmerie accepts, supports or transfers the task?", "kind": "action", "id": "lead-support-and-handover-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "force-structure-and-mission-readiness", "name": "Force structure and mission readiness", "description": "Assess which components can deliver authorised missions while sustaining their other obligations.", "rationale": "Institutional remit and nominal strength do not establish that a qualified and available component can perform a particular task.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-capabilities", "name": "Component capabilities", "description": "Map the actual territorial, mobile and specialist components where these exist.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-component", "name": "Qualified component", "description": "Connect each component to verified duties, qualifications and deployment limitations without assuming a standard national structure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which actual components perform routine civilian policing, formed-unit public-order duties, investigation or military tasks?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualified-component-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes that the proposed component has the current qualifications and authorisations required for this mission?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-component-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "availability-and-service-continuity", "name": "Availability and service continuity", "description": "Assess deployable capacity against existing commitments and continuing policing responsibilities.", "findings": [ { "id": "sustainable-tasking", "name": "Sustainable tasking", "description": "Record mission-specific availability, reinforcement dependencies and the effects of redeployment on standing service.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many appropriately qualified personnel or formed units are available at the required place and time, after existing commitments are accounted for?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sustainable-tasking-q01" }, { "text": "What reinforcement or service adjustment is needed to undertake this task while meeting continuing policing obligations?", "kind": "action", "id": "sustainable-tasking-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coercive-powers-and-accountability", "name": "Coercive powers and accountability", "description": "Establish the constraints on exercising police or military powers and the mechanisms that enforce institutional accountability.", "rationale": "Military status, equipment and operational orders do not by themselves establish lawful authority for coercive action.", "layers": [ { "id": "powers-and-safeguards", "name": "Powers and safeguards", "description": "Connect coercive powers to the applicable mission, legal conditions and safeguards.", "findings": [ { "id": "lawful-exercise-of-powers", "name": "Lawful exercise of powers", "description": "Distinguish institutional powers 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a gendarmerie, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a gendarmerie, assess its institutional and operational state, and identify which policing or military tasks it may lawfully undertake under the applicable authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Royal Laotian Gendarmerie.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a gendarmerie, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "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": [ "Royal Laotian Gendarmerie" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 gendarmerie from another, and a gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": 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[ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a gendarmerie sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 gendarmerie is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie, 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 gendarmerie 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 } } } }