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        "rank": 2457,
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        "name": "female genital mutilation",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain female genital mutilation factually and respectfully, relay WHO classification, health consequences, prevalence, law and prevention from WHO, UNICEF and legal sources, route any girl or woman at risk to police, child protection services and FGM helplines, support survivors to specialist clinics without judgement, and never provide procedural detail or facilitation.",
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                "female genital mutilation in the Gambia",
                "clitoris excision",
                "infibulation",
                "clitoridectomy",
                "clitoral hood reduction",
                "Female genital mutilation in the UK",
                "female genital mutilation in the United States",
                "female genital cutting in Sierra Leone",
                "female genital mutilation in New Zealand",
                "female genital mutilation in Nigeria",
                "female genital mutilation in India",
                "female genital mutilation in Indonesia",
                "female genital mutilation in Malaysia",
                "reinfibulation"
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            "markers": [],
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            "senseRank": null,
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            }
        },
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                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T19:53:26Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 4,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q208373",
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                "name": "female genital mutilation",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain female genital mutilation factually and respectfully, relay WHO classification, health consequences, prevalence, law and prevention from WHO, UNICEF and legal sources, route any girl or woman at risk to police, child protection services and FGM helplines, support survivors to specialist clinics without judgement, and never provide procedural detail or facilitation.",
                "definition": "All procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons, classified by WHO into Type 1 clitoridectomy, Type 2 excision, Type 3 infibulation and Type 4 other harmful procedures, practised in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia and in diaspora communities, with WHO and UNICEF estimating over 230 million women and girls alive having undergone it; it causes serious short and long-term harm, is recognised internationally as a human rights violation, and is illegal in many countries including the United Kingdom and the Gambia. The registry alias clitoral hood reduction usually denotes a cosmetic surgical procedure whose classification is debated.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a harmful practice and human rights violation.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain classification and harms",
                    "relay law and prevention",
                    "route people at risk to protection services",
                    "point survivors to specialist care"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "No health benefit",
                    "Serious harms",
                    "Human rights violation",
                    "Illegal in many countries"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; a harmful practice.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Non-medical injury or removal of female genitalia",
                    "Clitoridectomy, clitoris excision, infibulation, FGM in the Gambia, FGM in the UK, clitoral hood reduction",
                    "Consensual adult cosmetic genital surgery is regulated separately and debated; intersex surgeries raise distinct issues; male circumcision is a separate topic"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "women and girls affected",
                        "typical_range": "over 230 million",
                        "unit": "people",
                        "note": "WHO and UNICEF 2024 estimate"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "International Day of Zero Tolerance",
                        "typical_range": "February 6",
                        "unit": "date",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "UK Female Genital Mutilation Act",
                        "typical_range": "2003",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Gambia ban",
                        "typical_range": "2015",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": "upheld in 2024 after a repeal attempt"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Type 1 clitoridectomy",
                    "Type 2 excision",
                    "Type 3 infibulation",
                    "Type 4 other harmful procedures",
                    "national legal and prevalence contexts"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "harmful cultural practice",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is addressed by",
                        "target": "World Health Organization",
                        "why": "classification and guidance"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "violates",
                        "target": "human rights",
                        "why": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "labiaplasty",
                        "why": "cosmetic surgery, debated classification"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "WHO guidelines on management of complications",
                    "UN General Assembly resolutions on FGM",
                    "National laws such as the UK FGM Act 2003 and the Gambia Women s Amendment Act 2015",
                    "Maputo Protocol"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Procedural detail or facilitation, which is out of scope",
                    "Stigmatising survivors or whole communities",
                    "Missing a girl at imminent risk"
                ],
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                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
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                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What FGM is.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is female genital mutilation, and how do the WHO types differ?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is a girl or woman at risk now, in which case contact police, child protection or an FGM helpline immediately?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "terms",
                                "name": "Terms",
                                "description": "Named terms and contexts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "terms-finding",
                                        "name": "Terms",
                                        "description": "Terms.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do clitoridectomy, excision and infibulation mean, how is FGM addressed in the Gambia and UK, and why is clitoral hood reduction debated?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific context?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "health",
                        "name": "Health",
                        "description": "Health consequences.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "harms",
                                "name": "Harms",
                                "description": "Harms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "harms-finding",
                                        "name": "Harms",
                                        "description": "Harms.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What short and long-term health harms does WHO describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "care",
                                "name": "Care",
                                "description": "Survivor care.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "care-finding",
                                        "name": "Care",
                                        "description": "Care.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What specialist care, including deinfibulation and psychological support, is available to survivors?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "law",
                        "name": "Law",
                        "description": "Law and prevention.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "laws",
                                "name": "Laws",
                                "description": "Laws.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "laws-finding",
                                        "name": "Laws",
                                        "description": "Laws.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do national laws prohibit FGM, including protection orders and mandatory reporting in the UK?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "prevention",
                                "name": "Prevention",
                                "description": "Prevention.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "prevention-finding",
                                        "name": "Prevention",
                                        "description": "Prevention.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What community-led prevention approaches do UNICEF and survivor advocates describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on FGM?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Prevalence and advocacy.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "prevalence",
                                "name": "Prevalence",
                                "description": "Prevalence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "prevalence-finding",
                                        "name": "Prevalence",
                                        "description": "Prevalence.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is prevalence measured, and how is it changing, checked against current sources?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Demographic and Health Surveys?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "advocacy",
                                "name": "Advocacy",
                                "description": "Survivor advocacy.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "advocacy-finding",
                                        "name": "Advocacy",
                                        "description": "Advocacy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which survivor-led organisations campaign against FGM?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should national contexts be separate entries?",
                "How should WHO and UNICEF data be linked and kept current?",
                "How should the classification of cosmetic procedures such as clitoral hood reduction be recorded?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "abstract concept",
            "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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a female genital mutilation, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain female genital mutilation factually and respectfully, relay WHO classification, health consequences, prevalence, law and prevention from WHO, UNICEF and legal sources, route any girl or woman at risk to police, child protection services and FGM helplines, support survivors to specialist clinics without judgement, and never provide procedural detail or facilitation.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "activity",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: female genital mutilation in the Gambia, clitoris excision, infibulation, clitoridectomy, clitoral hood reduction, Female genital mutilation in the UK, female genital mutilation in the United States, female genital cutting in Sierra Leone, female genital mutilation in New Zealand, female genital mutilation in Nigeria, female genital mutilation in India, female genital mutilation in Indonesia.",
                "14 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 105 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 female genital mutilation, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "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. 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": [
                        "female genital mutilation in the Gambia",
                        "clitoris excision",
                        "infibulation",
                        "clitoridectomy",
                        "clitoral hood reduction",
                        "Female genital mutilation in the UK",
                        "female genital mutilation in the United States",
                        "female genital cutting in Sierra Leone",
                        "female genital mutilation in New Zealand",
                        "female genital mutilation in Nigeria",
                        "female genital mutilation in India",
                        "female genital mutilation in Indonesia"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 105 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 14 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 female genital mutilation from another, and a female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "process-and-outcome",
                        "name": "Process, inputs and outcome",
                        "description": "How a female genital mutilation proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.",
                        "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "steps-and-sequence",
                                "name": "Steps and sequence",
                                "description": "The steps of a female genital mutilation, their order and what may run in parallel.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "steps-and-preconditions",
                                        "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion",
                                        "description": "What has to be true before each step of a female genital mutilation and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a female genital mutilation, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a female genital mutilation, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a female genital mutilation is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "inputs-and-results",
                                "name": "Inputs, resources and results",
                                "description": "What a female genital mutilation consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a female genital mutilation takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a female genital mutilation, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a female genital mutilation, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation?",
                                                "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 female genital mutilation?",
                                                "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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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 female genital mutilation is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation, 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 female genital mutilation 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
            }
        }
    }
}