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saʿi, wuquf at ʿArafat, Muzdalifah, Mina, and the stoning of the jamarat), constituting the fifth pillar of Islam.", "scope_statement": "This model owns a particular pilgrim's Hajj undertaking, including its intended form, relationship to a Hajj season, ritual progress, participation constraints, exceptions and evidence of completion; collective arrangements are linked where they affect that undertaking.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the undertaking as Hajj and its intended ritual form", "Association with a particular Hajj season and its ritual windows", "Pilgrim-specific progress through required and applicable rites", "Practical ability, access and assistance affecting participation", "Interruptions, disputed performance and unresolved religious determinations", "Evidence and authority supporting completion assessments" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Umrah as an independent undertaking, except its relationship to the intended form of Hajj", "The pilgrim's general religious identity or lifetime religious practice", "Travel bookings, accommodation and transport operations beyond their effects on participation", "Management of holy sites, crowd infrastructure or the Hajj season as a collective event", "Clinical diagnosis and treatment", "Authoritative religious rulings or government admission policy creation" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The undertaking is explicitly intended as Hajj; travel to Makkah or participation in isolated rites is insufficient identification.", "Its ritual plan is tied to a Hajj season and includes attendance at Arafat, distinguishing it from an independent Umrah.", "The record distinguishes the intended Hajj form - ifrad, qiran or tamattu - from a generic pilgrimage itinerary.", "Ritual progress is assessed against applicable place, timing and sequence requirements rather than arrival at a destination alone.", "Administrative permission, physical attendance and religious completion are recorded separately because none alone establishes the others." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended Hajj form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "ifrad | qiran | tamattu | undecided | unconfirmed", "why_it_matters": "The intended form affects the relationship to Umrah and the applicable ritual plan." }, { "name": "Hajj season", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced Hijri year and season, with the source of operative dates", "why_it_matters": "Ritual timing must be interpreted within the relevant season." }, { "name": "Participation capacity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unassessed | assessed with constraints | assessed without identified constraints | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "An agent needs concrete participation constraints without independently deciding religious obligation." }, { "name": "Administrative access", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unverified | pending | confirmed | restricted | expired; qualified by season and jurisdiction", "why_it_matters": "Permitted practical actions depend on current access conditions." }, { "name": "Ihram status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Reported ritual status, transition evidence and unresolved questions", "why_it_matters": "Advice about conduct depends on ritual status rather than clothing or location alone." }, { "name": "Rite performance", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Per applicable rite: not started | in progress | reported performed | disputed | missed | applicability unresolved", "why_it_matters": "A single completion flag would conceal omissions and uncertain performance." }, { "name": "Time remaining in a ritual window", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hours or minutes relative to a sourced window, with timezone and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "The urgency and feasibility of a next action depend on the remaining time." }, { "name": "Religious guidance basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named adviser, school or guidance source, with scope and date", "why_it_matters": "Interpretations and exception handling require attributable guidance." }, { "name": "Completion assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "not assessed | ongoing | reported complete | assessed complete by named authority | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Reported performance must remain distinguishable from an authoritative assessment." } ], "affordances": [ "Construct a pilgrim-specific ritual checklist using the intended Hajj form and identified guidance.", "Record performance of rites with time, place, evidence and uncertainty.", "Identify upcoming ritual windows and prerequisites requiring attention.", "Surface access, mobility and assistance constraints affecting the next planned rite.", "Prepare a precise account of omissions or disputed performance for a qualified religious adviser.", "Summarise completion claims while preserving outstanding duties and unresolved assessments." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "quran-3-97-2-196", "title": "The Qurʾan, 3:97 and 2:196-203 (obligation of Hajj for those who can make the journey; ihram, sacrifice, and the appointed days)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Scriptural definition of Hajj as a duty (fard) on capable persons, and the outline of ihram, offering, and the days at the Sacred House." }, { "id": "ei2-hadjdj", "title": "Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, s.v. \"Ḥadjdj\"", "url": "https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/hadjdj-COM_0249", "what_it_supports": "Classical and historical account of the rites, the three legal forms (ifrad, qiran, tamattuʿ), and the distinction from ʿumra.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "britannica-hajj", "title": "Encyclopaedia Britannica, \"Hajj\"", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/hajj", "what_it_supports": "Accessible specialist overview of the pillar, the Dhu al-Hijjah calendar, the stations (Arafat, Muzdalifah, Mina), and scale as a mass gathering.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "who-hajj-health", "title": "World Health Organization, annual \"Health requirements for travellers to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj)\" (Weekly Epidemiological Record)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Health regulation of Hajj as an international mass gathering, including meningococcal vaccination and other entry requirements issued jointly with Saudi public-health authorities." }, { "id": "wikidata-q124877", "title": "Wikidata item Q124877, Hajj", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124877", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifier and cross-links for the pilgrimage as a named entity.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "hajj-identity-and-intention", "name": "Hajj identity and intention", "description": "Establishes which Hajj undertaking is being represented and the ritual intention that governs its plan.", "rationale": "Hajj cannot be identified from a destination or travel itinerary alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "undertaking-and-season", "name": "Undertaking and season", "description": "Connects the pilgrim's undertaking to Hajj and a particular season.", "findings": [ { "id": "identified-hajj-undertaking", "name": "Identified Hajj undertaking", "description": "Record whose undertaking this is, the stated intention to perform Hajj and the season to which it belongs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What establishes that this undertaking is intended as Hajj rather than Umrah or another visit?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identified-hajj-undertaking-q01" }, { "text": "Which Hajj season is intended, and what source establishes its operative dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identified-hajj-undertaking-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-form-and-guidance", "name": "Ritual form and guidance", "description": "Records the intended form and the guidance used to interpret its requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "form-specific-ritual-basis", "name": "Form-specific ritual basis", "description": "Keep the declared form of Hajj and its guidance basis explicit, including any unresolved relationship to an associated Umrah.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended form ifrad, qiran or tamattu, and who confirmed that interpretation of the pilgrim's intention?", "kind": "definition", "id": "form-specific-ritual-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which guidance source governs the resulting ritual plan and any proposed change of form?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "form-specific-ritual-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ritual-progress-and-windows", "name": "Ritual progress and windows", "description": "Tracks Hajj rites through their applicable places, times, sequences and ritual-state transitions.", "rationale": "An itinerary does not establish that rites were performed under their applicable conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "ihram-and-transitions", "name": "Ihram and transitions", "description": "Represents entry into ihram and subsequent changes in ritual status.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidenced-ihram-status", "name": "Evidenced ihram status", "description": "Record reported entry into ihram, relevant miqat circumstances and the basis for each later status transition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when was entry into ihram reported, and which miqat guidance applied to the approach taken?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidenced-ihram-status-q01" }, { "text": "What performed acts and cited guidance support the current status and the next permitted transition?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidenced-ihram-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rite-performance-in-context", "name": "Rite performance in context", "description": "Records applicable acts at Arafat, Muzdalifah, Mina and the Sacred Mosque without treating site visits as proof of performance.", "findings": [ { "id": "rite-specific-performance-record", "name": "Rite-specific performance record", "description": "Represent attendance at Arafat, tawaf, sa'i, stoning and other applicable acts separately, with their timing, location, sequence and evidential limitations.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each applicable rite, what act was reported, at which place and time, and what evidence supports the report?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rite-specific-performance-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which timing or sequence conditions remain unresolved under the identified guidance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rite-specific-performance-record-q02" }, { "text": "Which next rite is due, and what prerequisite or closing window affects its performance?", "kind": "action", "id": "rite-specific-performance-record-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-access", "name": "Participation and access", "description": "Captures the pilgrim-specific conditions that make the intended Hajj practically possible.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a ritual plan from the pilgrim's present ability and authorization to carry it out.", "layers": [ { "id": "capacity-and-assistance", "name": "Capacity and assistance", "description": "Records functional constraints and support needed for particular rites and transfers.", "findings": [ { "id": "rite-specific-support-needs", "name": "Rite-specific support needs", "description": "Describe how mobility, stamina, communication or other identified constraints affect participation, linking detailed clinical matters to their own records.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which planned rites or transfers require assistance, and what assessment supports that need?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rite-specific-support-needs-q01" }, { "text": "What assistance is available, and which proposed accommodation requires religious or operational confirmation?", "kind": "action", "id": "rite-specific-support-needs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "season-specific-admission", "name": "Season-specific admission", "description": "Connects the undertaking to applicable permission and access arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "verified-access-conditions", "name": "Verified access conditions", "description": "Record applicable admission requirements and evidence of satisfaction for the relevant season, without treating permission as evidence of ritual completion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which official source establishes the admission conditions applicable to this pilgrim and season?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "verified-access-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What missing, pending or restricted access condition affects the next planned movement?", "kind": "action", "id": "verified-access-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exceptions-and-completion", "name": "Exceptions and completion", "description": "Preserves interruptions, unresolved ritual questions and the basis for completion claims.", "rationale": "Hajj can involve uncertain or interrupted performance that cannot responsibly be reduced to success or failure.", "layers": [ { "id": "interruption-and-resolution", "name": "Interruption and resolution", "description": "Records departures from the intended ritual plan and their assessed consequences.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-ritual-exception", "name": "Unresolved ritual exception", "description": "Keep missed windows, prevented attendance, disputed acts and possible remedial duties attached to the affected rite and attributable advice.", "questions": [ { "text": "What happened, which rite or ritual status was affected, and what remains uncertain?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unresolved-ritual-exception-q01" }, { "text": "What response has a qualified adviser recommended, and what facts or conditions does that advice depend on?", "kind": "action", "id": "unresolved-ritual-exception-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-and-remaining-duties", "name": "Completion and remaining duties", "description": "Separates performed acts, reported completion and assessed outstanding duties.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-completion-account", "name": "Qualified completion account", "description": "Summarise the undertaking's completion state while retaining disputed performance and any remaining acts or duties identified by applicable guidance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who considers the Hajj complete, and on what performance record and guidance is that assessment based?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-completion-account-q01" }, { "text": "Which departure-related acts, remedial duties or unresolved determinations remain, if any?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-completion-account-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Hajj al-Tamattuʿ (umrah in the Hajj months, then a new ihram for Hajj; the usual form for pilgrims coming from outside the Haram)", "Hajj al-Qiran (umrah and Hajj joined in a single ihram, with a sacrificial animal required)", "Hajj al-Ifrad (Hajj alone, without umrah in the same ihram; historically common for residents of Mecca)", "Hajj al-badal / niyaba (a deputized Hajj performed for a deceased or permanently incapacitated person)", "Hajj fard (the first, obligatory performance once istitaʿah - physical and financial capacity - is met)", "Hajj nafl or tatawwuʿ (a voluntary repeat Hajj after the fard has been discharged)", "Quota / Nusuk Hajj (the licensed, visa-and-permit pilgrimage run through national missions and Saudi platforms)", "Unregistered Hajj (entry or presence in the rites without a Hajj permit, treated as a distinct administrative and enforcement category)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q124877", "note": "Item for the Islamic pilgrimage Hajj (الحج)." }, { "scheme": "Arabic canonical name", "value_or_pattern": "الحج", "note": "The legal and liturgical name in the Qurʾan and fiqh; transcribed Hajj, Ḥajj, Hadj, Hadsch." }, { "scheme": "Library of Congress Subject Heading", "value_or_pattern": "Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Mecca", "note": "Bibliographic heading used for the rite and its literature; related heading Hajj." }, { "scheme": "Saudi Hajj permit / Nusuk booking", "value_or_pattern": "season-specific pilgrim permit and visa issued per named person for a given Hijri year", "note": "The operative identity document for lawful presence in the Hajj zones; not a stable global code." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Qurʾan 3:97 and 2:196-203, together with the prophetic manasik (especially the Farewell Hajj reports in the hadith collections), as the primary legal sources for the rites.", "School-specific fiqh of manasik in the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafiʿi, Hanbali, and Jaʿfari corpora (what is rukn, wajib, or sunna; rules of tamattuʿ/qiran/ifrad; women's Hajj and mahram).", "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Ministry of Hajj and Umrah licensing, quotas, and spatial regulation of Mina, Arafat, Muzdalifah, and the Jamarat; Ministry of Interior permit and visa rules.", "Saudi Ministry of Health Hajj health requirements, aligned with WHO advice in the Weekly Epidemiological Record (notably quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine; yellow fever and other certificates by origin).", "WHO International Health Regulations (2005) as applied to Hajj as a planned mass gathering with cross-border health measures." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Performed each Hijri year in and around Mecca by on the order of one to two-plus million licensed pilgrims, arriving on national Hajj missions or commercial packages and moving on a fixed 8-13 Dhu al-Hijjah itinerary.", "National governments and private operators sell packages (flights, tents or hotels, muʿallim/mutawwif guidance, sacrificial vouchers); Saudi platforms (Nusuk and predecessors) allocate permits.", "The same calendar day (10 Dhu al-Hijjah) is observed worldwide as Eid al-Adha by Muslims who are not on Hajj, including the sacrificial offering.", "Used in law and social life as discharge of a pillar: wills and estates fund a proxy Hajj; many communities treat an accomplished Hajj as a change of status (honorific al-Hajj / al-Hajja)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Licensed pilgrim count (recent official seasons)", "typical_range": "about 1.3-2.6 million", "unit": "persons per Hajj season" }, { "quantity": "Core ritual window", "typical_range": "8-13 Dhu al-Hijjah (5-6 days); wuquf of 9 Dhu al-Hijjah is the indispensable day", "unit": "Hijri calendar days" }, { "quantity": "Tawaf circuits / Saʿi laps", "typical_range": "7 circuits around the Kaʿba; 7 laps of Saʿi (Safa-Marwa, on the order of 3 km total)", "unit": "circuits or laps" }, { "quantity": "Jamarat pebbles", "typical_range": "7 on 10 Dhu al-Hijjah, then 21 per day on 11-12 (and 13 if staying), i.e. 49 or 70", "unit": "pebbles" }, { "quantity": "Country quota (historical Saudi allocation rule of thumb)", "typical_range": "about 1 000 pilgrims per 1 000 000 Muslim population (0.1%), with later adjustments", "unit": "pilgrims per million Muslims" }, { "quantity": "Ambient heat at Arafat/Mina in season", "typical_range": "often 38-48", "unit": "°C" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Crowd crush and bottleneck fatalities, especially at the Jamarat and on pedestrian routes (major incidents include 1990, 2006, and the 2015 Mina disaster).", "Heat stroke, dehydration, and exertional collapse during wuquf and the walks between Mina, Arafat, and Muzdalifah.", "Amplification of communicable disease (meningococcal W135 after 2000-2001; COVID-19 leading to the 2020-2021 severely restricted Hajj).", "Ritual invalidity in fiqh if the rukn of wuquf at ʿArafat is missed, or if ihram prohibitions are broken without the prescribed compensation (dam / fidyah).", "Commercial fraud, stranded pilgrims, and trafficking in permits or \"free visas\".", "Fire and camp failure in Mina tent cities (e.g. 1997).", "Unregistered presence, which Saudi authorities treat as a legal offence and which complicates crowd and health control." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Tamattuʿ is the default for most international (afaqi) pilgrims; ifrad remains common for people already in the Haram and in some Maliki practice.", "Jaʿfari (Shia) manasik differ on points such as tawaf al-nisaʾ, timing of ramy, and combining prayers; they share the same stations and days.", "Maghribi, Egyptian, South Asian, Indonesian, and West African missions historically ran distinct mutawwif/muʿallim systems and package cultures; Gulf and later Nusuk practice is more self-service and digitally permitted.", "Women's travel rules (mahram requirement versus organized-group permissions) have varied by madhhab and by Saudi season-by-season policy.", "Orthography and common names: Hajj/Haj (English), Hadj (French), Hadsch (German), hac (Turkish), haji (Malay/Indonesian, also the honorific)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": 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legal structures; they are comparable only as crowd-management analogues, not as the same rite." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Hajj this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which differences among jurisprudential traditions must the model represent explicitly, particularly for rite classification, timing, sequence and release from ihram?", "How should Hajj performed on another person's behalf distinguish the performing pilgrim, beneficiary and authority for that arrangement?", "How should assessments of religious obligation and ability be represented without conflating them with operational readiness or clinical fitness?", "Which official sources should establish season-specific dates and admission conditions, and how should conflicting or superseded guidance be retained?", "What evidence and attributed 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Hajj, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Hajj undertaking, record its ritual and practical state, and identify appropriate next actions without claiming authority to determine religious validity.", "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: Types of Hajj.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 141 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 Hajj, 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": [ "Types of Hajj" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 141 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Hajj from another, and a Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Hajj 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj 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 Hajj?", "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 Hajj?", "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 Hajj 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 Hajj and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 Hajj is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Hajj, 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 Hajj, 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 Hajj 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 } } } }