{ "model": { "rank": 6761, "code": "thing-q207959", "model_id": "vr.tr.androgyny", "name": "androgyny", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise androgyny under an explicit definition, record the context and evidence for its attribution, and determine appropriate uses without inferring identity, sexuality or anatomy.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q207959/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "boi", "androgynization", "yinyang ren" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q207959", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207959", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:27:01Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.1, "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: 01a0887e-2cc9-7b41-be1a-ef14f455e788\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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cultural setting and theoretical framework.", "scope_statement": "This model owns androgyny as a context-dependent quality or concept involving the combination, ambiguity or reduced salience of culturally coded masculinity and femininity, while keeping psychological, expressive, aesthetic and self-descriptive uses distinguishable.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of androgyny and the communities, disciplines or individuals using them", "Androgyny attributed to appearance, expression, psychological traits or artistic representation", "Self-description and observer attribution, including disagreement between them", "Cultural and historical conventions used to recognise masculinity, femininity or ambiguity", "Operationalisations, supporting evidence and limits on interpretation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "A person's gender identity as a whole, including nonbinary and agender identities", "Sex characteristics and intersex variations as biological or clinical subjects", "Sexual orientation, attraction and relationship preferences", "Gender nonconformity broadly, including forms that do not involve androgyny", "Fashion objects, performances and artworks beyond their relation to androgyny", "Clinical assessment or diagnosis of a person" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An attribution must identify its sense: combining masculine and feminine qualities, making those distinctions ambiguous, or another explicitly defined use; these tests are not interchangeable.", "An androgynous presentation does not establish a nonbinary identity, and a nonbinary identity does not establish an androgynous presentation.", "Androgyny attributed to appearance does not establish anything about anatomy, sex characteristics or sexual orientation.", "Under a psychological definition requiring high scores on both masculine-coded and feminine-coded traits, low scores on both dimensions do not meet the same criterion.", "Departure from a gender convention is insufficient by itself: the attribution must explain what makes the instance androgynous under the selected definition." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Definition in use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Trait combination; expressive combination; perceptual ambiguity; reduced gender marking; explicitly specified alternative", "why_it_matters": "Prevents distinct meanings from being treated as one settled construct." }, { "name": "Bearer and attribution target", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person, presentation, trait profile, character, performance or representation linked to the particular aspect described", "why_it_matters": "Keeps a description of clothing, behaviour or representation from becoming an unrestricted claim about a person." }, { "name": "Attribution standpoint", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-description; creator intention; observer judgement; research classification; mixed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Separates what someone calls themselves from how others interpret or classify them." }, { "name": "Gender-coding reference", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community, historical period, setting and source for the masculine or feminine coding", "why_it_matters": "Makes the conventions supporting an attribution explicit and contestable." }, { "name": "Operational profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Instrument-specific trait scores, observer ratings or classification thresholds, with scale, version and reference population; absent when unmeasured", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of a measurement without inventing a universal unit or score for androgyny." }, { "name": "Temporal and situational extent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Single depiction or encounter; setting-specific; recurring; longitudinally documented; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a temporary presentation from an attribution supported across occasions." }, { "name": "Agreement status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Uncontested in the recorded context; disputed; observer-dependent; insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "Preserves disagreement instead of forcing a categorical resolution." } ], "affordances": [ "Select and explain the definition applicable to a particular use of androgyny.", "Record a scoped self-description or sourced attribution with its cultural and situational context.", "Compare interpretations while preserving differences between trait combination and perceptual ambiguity.", "Evaluate whether an instrument or observation supports the claimed sense of androgyny.", "Describe androgynous elements in a representation without inferring the identity or anatomy of its subject.", "Revise, qualify or withdraw an attribution when its evidence, context or intended use changes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meanings-and-boundaries", "name": "Meanings and boundaries", "description": "Distinguish the senses of androgyny and identify whose definition governs each attribution.", "rationale": "The same label can describe different qualities, so recognising an instance requires a declared interpretation.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition-families", "name": "Definition families", "description": "Separate combination, ambiguity and reduced gender marking as candidate meanings.", "findings": [ { "id": "criterion-for-androgyny", "name": "Criterion for androgyny", "description": "Record what must be present for an instance to qualify, without assuming that mixing gender-coded features and appearing difficult to gender are equivalent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this definition require masculine and feminine qualities together, ambiguity of gender cues, reduced gender marking or something else?", "kind": "definition", "id": "criterion-for-androgyny-q01" }, { "text": "Which author, discipline, community or self-describing person supplies this definition?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "criterion-for-androgyny-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-concepts", "name": "Neighbouring concepts", "description": "Keep androgyny distinct from identity, sexuality, sex characteristics and wider gender nonconformity.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-the-label", "name": "Limits of the label", "description": "Identify the exact quality being described and prevent the label from silently carrying claims about neighbouring concepts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence makes this an instance of androgyny rather than merely an instance of gender nonconformity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-the-label-q01" }, { "text": "Does the attribution concern expression, traits or self-description, and which identity or bodily claims remain unsupported?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-the-label-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gender-coding-and-expression", "name": "Gender coding and expression", "description": "Locate androgyny in particular combinations of expression and the conventions through which they are interpreted.", "rationale": "An agent needs to explain an attribution through contextual evidence rather than treat gender coding as an intrinsic property of features.", "layers": [ { "id": "expressive-configuration", "name": "Expressive configuration", "description": "Record which aspects of presentation or representation support the selected meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-of-cues", "name": "Configuration of cues", "description": "Describe relevant clothing, styling, voice, gesture or representational choices and how their combination supports the attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observable or explicitly described elements support this attribution, and how do they combine?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-of-cues-q01" }, { "text": "Is the judgement about the whole presentation, one element, or a particular depiction rather than the person generally?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "configuration-of-cues-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-and-temporal-reading", "name": "Cultural and temporal reading", "description": "Make the audience, setting and period behind a gender-coded interpretation explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-gender-conventions", "name": "Situated gender conventions", "description": "Record the conventions that make features masculine-coded, feminine-coded or ambiguous in the relevant context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sources establish the relevant gender conventions for this community, period and setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-gender-conventions-q01" }, { "text": "Would another documented audience or historical context interpret the same configuration differently?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-gender-conventions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "psychological-operationalisation", "name": "Psychological operationalisation", "description": "Represent psychological uses of androgyny through their trait assumptions, instruments and classification rules.", "rationale": "A psychological trait classification must remain distinguishable from appearance and from other definitions of androgyny.", "layers": [ { "id": "trait-construct", "name": "Trait construct", "description": "Specify how a framework represents masculine-coded and feminine-coded traits.", "findings": [ { "id": "trait-dimensions-and-assumptions", "name": "Trait dimensions and assumptions", "description": "Record whether the framework treats masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions and how it justifies the gender coding of its items.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does this framework define psychological androgyny and relate its masculinity and femininity dimensions?", "kind": "definition", "id": "trait-dimensions-and-assumptions-q01" }, { "text": "Who assigned gender coding to the traits, and in which population and period was that coding established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "trait-dimensions-and-assumptions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scoring-and-interpretation", "name": "Scoring and interpretation", "description": "Connect reported classifications to scoring procedures and their evidential limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "instrument-bound-classification", "name": "Instrument-bound classification", "description": "Retain instrument version, component scores, thresholds and reference population rather than recording an unexplained androgyny score.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instrument, component scores and decision rule produced the classification, including treatment of high-high and low-low profiles?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "instrument-bound-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports applying this instrument to the relevant language, population and purpose?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "instrument-bound-classification-q02" }, { "text": "Which conclusions about appearance, identity or wellbeing would exceed what this measure establishes?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "instrument-bound-classification-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-agent-use", "name": "Attribution and agent use", "description": "Preserve the standpoint, extent and practical limits of descriptions involving androgyny.", "rationale": "An attribution may be useful for interpretation while remaining disputed, temporary or inappropriate to generalise.", "layers": [ { "id": "self-description-and-external-reading", "name": "Self-description and external reading", "description": "Distinguish personal usage, artistic intention and observer judgement.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-authority-and-disagreement", "name": "Attribution authority and disagreement", "description": "Record who uses the label, what they mean by it and whether the subject or other interpreters disagree.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is androgyny self-described, intended by a creator, attributed by an observer or assigned through a research procedure?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-authority-and-disagreement-q01" }, { "text": "If these standpoints disagree, how can the record preserve each scoped attribution without presenting one as an uncontested personal fact?", "kind": "action", "id": "attribution-authority-and-disagreement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scope-of-use-and-revision", "name": "Scope of use and revision", "description": "Determine what an agent may conclude or do from the particular evidence available.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-use-of-attribution", "name": "Bounded use of attribution", "description": "Tie the description to its task and occasion, with grounds for qualification or revision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence support this single depiction, a recurring presentation or a broader self-description?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-use-of-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "For the intended task, should the agent use the label, attribute it to its source or describe the specific expressive features instead?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-use-of-attribution-q02" }, { "text": "What correction, contextual change or new evidence would require revising or withdrawing this attribution?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-use-of-attribution-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense was supplied; appearance and psychological traits are related but distinct uses, and some people also use androgyny as an identity term.", "Bem Sex Role Inventory versions and scoring methods differ; verify the specific instrument, norms, and cultural validity before classifying individuals.", "This account is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research; historical uses concerning bodily sex require separate contextual treatment." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of androgyny 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": [ "Psychological androgyny", "Androgynous appearance or gender expression" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of androgyny 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": [ "Psychological research examining masculinity and femininity as separate dimensions rather than opposite ends of one scale.", "Fashion and visual design combining or blurring conventions of masculine and feminine presentation.", "Personal descriptions of gender expression.", "Analysis of gender representation in art, literature, and performance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of androgyny this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Self-reported masculine and feminine trait endorsement using the Bem Sex Role Inventory", 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "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": [ "boi", "androgynization", "yinyang ren" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 androgyny from another, and a androgyny 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny 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 androgyny between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a androgyny 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What androgyny is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of androgyny are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is androgyny operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of androgyny and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of androgyny?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as androgyny?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a androgyny 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 androgyny and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny 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 androgyny is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a androgyny, 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 androgyny, 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 androgyny is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }