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The following is a proposed recording framework, with design-dependent requirements left for research.", "in_scope": [ "Bow type, intended instrument family and supported playing configuration", "Stick, head, hair or alternative contact material, grip and fitted tensioning components", "Dimensions, mass, balance and deformation under documented conditions", "Hair engagement, adjustment behaviour and observed playing response", "Damage, component replacements and requirements for care or specialist intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Archery bows, projectiles and shooting equipment", "Musical bows that are themselves stringed instruments", "The played instrument's body, strings, tuning and independent condition", "The performer's skill, repertoire and interpretation", "Rosin products, spare hair and carrying cases as independently managed objects", "Ownership transactions, insurance valuation and material trade regulations" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Check whether the implement is intended to excite another instrument's strings through a drawn contact surface; a curved outline alone does not establish musical-bow identity.", "Distinguish it from an archery bow by the intended string-contact action rather than a projectile draw-and-release function.", "Distinguish it from a musical bow instrument by whether another instrument supplies the strings being sounded.", "Distinguish it from a plectrum or beater by its extended drawing contact rather than a primarily plucking or striking contact.", "Distinguish a complete but unserviceable bow from loose bow components by evidence of the original assembly and missing parts; missing hair alone should not erase its identity." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended instrument association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Instrument family or specific instrument reference; intended, tested or uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented compatibility from resemblance or an untested pairing." }, { "name": "Bow construction type", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented tradition or design; modern, historical, experimental or unidentified", "why_it_matters": "Determines which components and adjustment expectations apply." }, { "name": "Stick material", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Identified wood, composite, other or unknown, with identification evidence", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate inspection and intervention without inferring material from appearance alone." }, { "name": "Overall and usable contact lengths", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with endpoints and adjustment state recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports instrument matching and identifies the available working stroke." }, { "name": "Mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g, with fitted components recorded", "why_it_matters": "Provides a reproducible handling characteristic and a baseline after component changes." }, { "name": "Balance point", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm from a named reference point, with assembly and adjustment state recorded", "why_it_matters": "Helps compare handling without reducing suitability to mass alone." }, { "name": "Stick curvature and lateral alignment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Profile or offsets in mm under specified unloaded and permitted working conditions", "why_it_matters": "Allows intended curvature to be distinguished from a suspected change or deformation." }, { "name": "Contact material condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, uneven, sparse, contaminated, detached, absent or unassessed; observations may coexist", "why_it_matters": "Guides whether poor engagement needs preparation, replacement or further diagnosis." }, { "name": "Tension control configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Screw-adjusted, manually controlled, fixed or other documented mechanism", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from assuming every bow has a screw or movable frog." }, { "name": "Structural serviceability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, usable within stated limits, specialist inspection required or withdrawn from use", "why_it_matters": "Connects inspection evidence to an explicit action decision." }, { "name": "Component and repair attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Component linked to maker evidence, replacement event or repair record; attribution confidence stated", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating the maker of one component as the verified maker of the entire bow." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the bow's design and propose an instrument pairing for confirmation.", "Inspect and document the stick, head, contact material and fitted adjustment mechanism.", "Adjust working tension where the design, condition and available instructions permit.", "Prepare the contact surface using a documented method appropriate to its material.", "Compare playing response on a specified instrument under recorded test conditions.", "Withdraw a damaged bow from use, arrange specialist service or prepare it for supported storage." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "bow-identity-and-fit", "name": "Bow identity and fit", "description": "Establishes what musical bow is present and which playing configurations it supports.", "rationale": "The name bow is ambiguous, and musical bows cannot be matched to instruments from shape alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "musical-bow-boundary", "name": "Musical bow boundary", "description": "Identifies the implement by its intended interaction with an instrument.", "findings": [ { "id": "sounding-role", "name": "Sounding role", "description": "Record the evidence that this object is a bow for sounding another instrument, including incomplete or damaged examples.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies this object as an implement drawn across another instrument's strings?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sounding-role-q01" }, { "text": "Is this an individual bow, a detached component, or a musical bow instrument requiring a neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "sounding-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "instrument-and-grip-fit", "name": "Instrument and grip fit", "description": "Records intended instrument association and the handling configuration required by the bow.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-playing-configuration", "name": "Supported playing configuration", "description": "Separate maker or tradition-based intended use from pairings confirmed through observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instrument family, size and grip configuration is this bow documented as supporting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-playing-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "What fit or handling checks must be satisfied before using it with the proposed instrument?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-playing-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stick-and-component-assembly", "name": "Stick and component assembly", "description": "Describes the bow's load-bearing form and the identity of its fitted parts.", "rationale": "Interpreting curvature, damage and repair options requires the actual assembly rather than an assumed standard violin-bow design.", "layers": [ { "id": "stick-geometry", "name": "Stick geometry", "description": "Captures material evidence and the stick's shape under stated conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-and-shape-baseline", "name": "Material and shape baseline", "description": "Record material confidence, length, section and curvature without treating all departures from straightness as defects.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports the stick's material identification and intended curvature?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "material-and-shape-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "What are its length, section dimensions and lateral alignment at the documented adjustment state?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-and-shape-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fitted-parts-and-attribution", "name": "Fitted parts and attribution", "description": "Identifies head fittings, frog where present, grip and adjustment parts as an assembled object.", "findings": [ { "id": "assembly-continuity", "name": "Assembly continuity", "description": "Record which parts are present, secure, replaced or uncertain in origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which head, heel or frog, grip and adjustment components are fitted, absent or replaced?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assembly-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which marks, records or examinations support the attribution of the stick and each potentially substituted component?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assembly-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-material-and-tension", "name": "Contact material and tension", "description": "Records the working contact surface and how its tension is established and retained.", "rationale": "A bow may remain recognisable while its hair, anchorage or adjustment system makes it unusable.", "layers": [ { "id": "string-contact-surface", "name": "String-contact surface", "description": "Describes the installed hair or alternative material and its preparation.", "findings": [ { "id": "contact-surface-readiness", "name": "Contact surface readiness", "description": "Record contact material, distribution, contamination and treatment separately from stick condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What contact material is fitted, and where are strands or contact areas missing, uneven or contaminated?", "kind": "definition", "id": "contact-surface-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports applying rosin, cleaning or replacing this particular contact material?", "kind": "action", "id": "contact-surface-readiness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tension-and-anchorage", "name": "Tension and anchorage", "description": "Captures the applicable adjustment method and the security of contact-material attachment.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-adjustment-envelope", "name": "Working adjustment envelope", "description": "Record permitted adjustment behaviour, working clearance and anchorage concerns without inventing a universal tension target.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is tension established on this design, and what observations indicate its permitted working setting?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-adjustment-envelope-q01" }, { "text": "Does adjustment expose slipping attachments, binding parts, exhausted travel or unexpected stick deformation that requires stopping?", "kind": "action", "id": "working-adjustment-envelope-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-playing-response", "name": "Handling and playing response", "description": "Relates measurable handling properties to observed performance in a specified playing setup.", "rationale": "Bow suitability depends on the instrument, player and test conditions; tonal judgements alone cannot establish an intrinsic bow property.", "layers": [ { "id": "mass-and-balance", "name": "Mass and balance", "description": "Captures reproducible handling measurements for the assembled bow.", "findings": [ { "id": "handling-baseline", "name": "Handling baseline", "description": "Record mass and balance with explicit reference points and configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the assembled mass and balance-point distance from a named reference point?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "handling-baseline-q01" }, { "text": "Which fitted parts and tension state were present during measurement, and have these changed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "handling-baseline-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "controlled-playing-observations", "name": "Controlled playing observations", "description": "Records response without attributing all sound or handling differences to the bow.", "findings": [ { "id": "response-in-context", "name": "Response in context", "description": "Capture attack, sustained contact and controllability together with the instrument, player, preparation and tested strokes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under which instrument, string, tension, preparation and player conditions were response observations made?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "response-in-context-q01" }, { "text": "What comparison would distinguish a bow-related response problem from an instrument, preparation or technique issue?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "response-in-context-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-bow-care", "name": "Condition and bow care", "description": "Connects bow-specific inspection findings to use restrictions, service and storage.", "rationale": "Structural integrity and maintenance needs must govern whether playing or adjustment can proceed.", "layers": [ { "id": "structural-use-decision", "name": "Structural use decision", "description": "Assesses the stick, head and attachment regions before further loading.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-use-limits", "name": "Damage and use limits", "description": "Record cracks, 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"care-plan-and-return-to-use-q01" }, { "text": "After rehairing, component replacement or structural repair, what inspection and playing checks are required before return to use?", "kind": "action", "id": "care-plan-and-return-to-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Q204948 to include every regional and historical musical-bow construction, including designs without a frog or screw, and bows with alternative contact materials?", "Which documented measurement methods allow useful comparison of curvature, stiffness and balance across bow designs without imposing one tradition's expectations?", "What design-specific evidence defines permitted working adjustment and reliable stop-use criteria for damaged or previously repaired bows?", "Which specialist or maker instructions support contact-material preparation, cleaning, rehairing and storage for each included construction?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own musical bows or a materially 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"What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a bow 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 bow 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 bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow 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.", "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 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"parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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", 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"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 bow is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow 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 bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow 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 bow between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a bow 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 bow, 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 bow, 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 bow is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What bow is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does bow perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise bow, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How bow is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does bow have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does bow need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about bow is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about bow hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern bow, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a bow 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 bow and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow 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 bow is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a bow, 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 bow, 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 bow is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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