{ "model": { "rank": 4931, "code": "thing-q2192", "model_id": "vr.tr.gif", "name": "GIF", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a GIF image asset, assess its rendering and suitability, and decide how to display, edit, convert or share it.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q2192/", "tier": 2, "score": 71, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "animated GIF", "GIF art" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 71, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q2192", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2192", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:18:02Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.5, "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: 01a08808-1aba-7f53-b7f2-ef81eca2f582\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"Colour-table arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "global table | local tables | combined arrangement | missing or invalid", "why_it_matters": "Explains how encoded colour indices become visible colours and whether palette edits affect multiple images." }, { "name": "Transparency configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "absent | transparent index configured for applicable graphic blocks | inconsistent | unverified", "why_it_matters": "Controls compositing against a background and constrains conversion from assets with partial transparency." }, { "name": "Encoded image count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "image blocks", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish single-image assets from sequences without assuming every image block is a complete displayed frame." }, { "name": "Declared delay sequence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "hundredths of a second per applicable graphic block; absent values recorded separately", "why_it_matters": "Supports animation reconstruction while keeping encoded timing distinct from observed player timing." }, { "name": "Disposal sequence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "per-block disposal instruction, including unspecified or unrecognised values", "why_it_matters": "Determines how prior graphic content contributes to subsequent displayed states." }, { "name": "Loop configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "extension absent | finite repetition declared | indefinite repetition declared | unrecognised", "why_it_matters": "Separates looping instructions carried by extensions from playback imposed by a host application." }, { "name": "Encoded size", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "bytes", "why_it_matters": "Informs transfer and storage decisions without substituting for decoded memory or playback cost." }, { "name": "Target rendering result", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "asset linked to a named decoder or player, version, settings and observed result", "why_it_matters": "Makes compatibility and playback judgments reproducible." }, { "name": "Reuse authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to source asset, attribution, licence or permission evidence; unknown when unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Supports sharing and derivative-work decisions without inferring permission from availability." } ], "affordances": [ "Inspect encoded content to verify GIF identity and report malformed or unsupported structures.", "Render a still image or reconstruct an animation using image placement, palettes, transparency and disposal.", "Compare declared timing and looping with observed behaviour in a target player.", "Resize, crop or optimise an asset while checking changes to palette quality and composed animation states.", "Convert to another image or video format and record losses in transparency, timing, looping or metadata.", "Prepare a suitable presentation using a still alternative, playback controls and a text description where 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label conflict with the encoded representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "verify-gif-representation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "stream-integrity", "name": "Stream integrity", "description": "Examines image data, colour tables, extensions and stream termination as decoding evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "assess-decodable-structure", "name": "Assess decodable structure", "description": "Record structural errors, unknown extensions and any decoder recovery required to produce an image.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the selected decoder interpret the image data and associated tables without truncation or structural errors?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assess-decodable-structure-q01" }, { "text": "Which extensions or damaged blocks are ignored, recovered or rejected, and how does that affect use?", "kind": "action", "id": "assess-decodable-structure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "indexed-image-composition", "name": "Indexed image composition", "description": "Captures how canvas 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"Describes colour lookup and transparent-index behaviour for each applicable graphic block.", "findings": [ { "id": "evaluate-colour-representation", "name": "Evaluate colour representation", "description": "Record active colour tables, transparency and visible quantisation effects relevant to the intended display.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which global or local colour table and transparent index apply to each image?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evaluate-colour-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Would the intended edit or conversion introduce banding, dithering changes or transparency-edge artefacts?", "kind": "action", "id": "evaluate-colour-representation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "animation-and-playback", "name": "Animation and playback", "description": "Describes the sequence of composed display states and how a player presents them over time.", "rationale": "Correct GIF animation requires interpreting disposal and delay controls, with player behaviour recorded separately.", "layers": [ { "id": "frame-state-reconstruction", "name": "Frame state reconstruction", "description": "Tracks how successive graphic blocks interact with prior canvas contents.", "findings": [ { "id": "resolve-disposal-and-composition", "name": "Resolve disposal and composition", "description": "Record the compositing state needed before and after each update, including ambiguous or unsupported disposal instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do image placement, transparency and disposal combine to produce each displayed state?", "kind": "definition", "id": "resolve-disposal-and-composition-q01" }, { "text": "Does seeking, extracting a frame or changing disposal produce trails, missing content or a different background?", "kind": "action", "id": "resolve-disposal-and-composition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "timing-and-repetition", "name": "Timing and repetition", "description": "Separates encoded delays and looping extensions from effective playback.", "findings": [ { "id": "compare-declared-and-observed-playback", "name": "Compare declared and observed playback", "description": "Record delay values, repetition instructions and observed timing in the intended player.", "questions": [ { "text": "What delays and loop instructions are encoded, and which controls are absent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compare-declared-and-observed-playback-q01" }, { "text": "Does the target player alter short delays, repetition or stopping behaviour?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compare-declared-and-observed-playback-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gif-use-and-transformation", "name": "GIF use and transformation", "description": "Supports decisions about presenting, modifying and distributing a particular GIF asset.", "rationale": "A decodable GIF may still be unsuitable for its destination because of animation behaviour, resource cost, conversion losses or uncertain reuse authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "destination-fitness", "name": "Destination fitness", "description": "Assesses the decoded asset in its intended viewing environment.", "findings": [ { "id": "assess-presentation-suitability", "name": "Assess presentation suitability", "description": "Record target-player results, resource requirements and options for understandable, controllable presentation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the asset render correctly within the destination's size, decoding and playback constraints?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assess-presentation-suitability-q01" }, { "text": "Does its motion or flashing require a still alternative or playback controls, and what text conveys its content?", "kind": "action", "id": "assess-presentation-suitability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "derivation-and-reuse", "name": "Derivation and reuse", "description": "Connects edits and conversions to the source asset and intended preservation requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "preserve-intended-behaviour", "name": "Preserve intended behaviour", "description": "Specify what a derivative must retain and link reuse decisions to available evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What source, attribution and permission evidence applies to this GIF and any embedded content?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "preserve-intended-behaviour-q01" }, { "text": "Which visible states, timing, transparency, repetition and extensions must survive optimisation or conversion?", "kind": "action", "id": "preserve-intended-behaviour-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "This describes the image-file-format sense of GIF; no sense was supplied, and the domain code alone does not confirm this interpretation.", "The 256-colour limit applies per colour table, not necessarily to every colour appearing across an entire multi-image file.", "Recall only: exact decoder behaviour and extension conventions, especially looping and minimum frame delays, should be checked against specifications and implementations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of GIF 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": [ "Still-image GIF", "Animated 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"provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "GIF87a specification, published by CompuServe.", "GIF89a specification, published by CompuServe; adds facilities including transparency and animation timing." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of GIF 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": [ "Short looping animations and reaction images in online communication.", "Simple web graphics with limited colour palettes.", "Brief demonstrations of interface actions or procedures.", "Exchange and preservation of legacy raster graphics." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of GIF 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": "Logical screen width or height", "typical_range": "1-65535 permitted by the dimension fields; this is a format limit, not a typical usage range", "unit": "pixels" }, { "quantity": "Colour-table capacity", "typical_range": "2-256 entries in powers of two per colour table", "unit": "colour entries" }, { "quantity": "Encoded frame delay", "typical_range": "0-65535; playback software may interpret or clamp small values differently", "unit": "hundredths of a second" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of GIF this model covers, and on 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"Which authoritative specification and extension documents should anchor the researched model's format and looping claims?", "Which target decoders must be tested to settle differences in short-delay handling, disposal and malformed-stream recovery?", "What visual and temporal tolerances define an acceptable optimisation or conversion for the intended uses?", "Should uncommon graphic blocks and application extensions receive dedicated modelling, or be recorded as compatibility exceptions?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "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 GIF, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a GIF image asset, assess its rendering and suitability, and decide how to display, edit, convert or share it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: animated GIF, GIF art.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 71 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 GIF, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ "animated GIF", "GIF art" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 71 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 GIF from another, and a GIF 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 GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a GIF 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 GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF 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 GIF?", "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 GIF?", "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 GIF 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 GIF and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 GIF is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a GIF, 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 GIF, 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 GIF 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 } } } }