{
    "model": {
        "rank": 6201,
        "code": "thing-q241696",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.somalis",
        "name": "Somalis",
        "purpose": "Let an agent describe the Somali people, their language, society and history with attribution from ethnographic and official sources, present the clan system and political questions neutrally, and route to entries for regions and diaspora communities.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Society, people and institutions",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "SOC",
        "domain": "SOC.PER",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/q241696/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 62,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "Daarood",
                "Dir Somali",
                "Somalis in Denmark",
                "Hawiye",
                "Rahanweyn",
                "Biimaal",
                "Yibir",
                "Somalis in Finland",
                "Habar Gidir",
                "Ashraaf",
                "Bravanese people",
                "Muse clan",
                "Reerow-Xassan",
                "Somalis in the Netherlands",
                "Benadiri people",
                "Madhiban",
                "Marehan",
                "Gadabuursi",
                "Abgaal",
                "Ayr"
            ],
            "aliasCount": 20,
            "merged": 20,
            "knownIn": 62,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q241696",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241696",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T02:38:36Z",
                "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": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q241696",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.somalis",
                "name": "Somalis",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "SOC.PER"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q241696/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.somalis",
                "name": "Somalis",
                "purpose": "Let an agent describe the Somali people, their language, society and history with attribution from ethnographic and official sources, present the clan system and political questions neutrally, and route to entries for regions and diaspora communities.",
                "definition": "An ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa, speaking the Somali language, mostly Sunni Muslim, forming the majority in Somalia and Somaliland and large communities in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya, with a global diaspora including communities in Denmark, the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere; Somali society is traditionally organised in clan families such as Darod, Dir, Hawiye, Isaaq and Rahanweyn and sub-clans such as the Biimaal, with a pastoral and maritime heritage, oral poetry and a history of statehood, colonial partition and civil conflict.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a people.",
                "affordances": [
                    "describe the people and language",
                    "relay society and clan structure",
                    "present history and politics neutrally",
                    "route to regional and diaspora entries"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Somali language",
                    "Clan-based society",
                    "Sunni Muslim majority",
                    "Large diaspora"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; a people.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Somali-speaking people of the Horn of Africa",
                    "Clan families Darod, Dir, Hawiye, Isaaq, Rahanweyn; diaspora communities",
                    "Somalia is the state; Somaliland is a self-declared republic; other Horn peoples are distinct"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "population",
                        "typical_range": "about 20-25",
                        "unit": "million",
                        "note": "estimates vary"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "language",
                        "typical_range": "Somali",
                        "unit": "Cushitic",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "Somalis in Somalia and Somaliland",
                    "Somalis in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya",
                    "clan families such as Darod, Dir, Hawiye, Isaaq and Rahanweyn and sub-clans such as Biimaal",
                    "Somali diaspora in Europe, North America and the Gulf, including Somalis in Denmark",
                    "Somali Bantu and minority groups"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Horner",
                        "why": "in registry terms, peoples of the Horn of Africa"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "speaks",
                        "target": "Somali language",
                        "why": "a Cushitic language"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is the majority in",
                        "target": "Somalia",
                        "why": "and Somaliland"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is organised by",
                        "target": "clan",
                        "why": "in traditional society"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Somali constitution and clan-based power-sharing arrangements",
                    "Minority rights frameworks",
                    "Census and diaspora statistics"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Presenting political questions such as Somaliland status as settled",
                    "Stereotyping the people through conflict and piracy narratives",
                    "Stale population figures",
                    "Reducing individuals to clan identity"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "Who Somalis are.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "identity",
                                "name": "Identity",
                                "description": "Identity and language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "identity-finding",
                                        "name": "Identity",
                                        "description": "Identity.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who are the Somali people, where do they live, and what language do they speak?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about the people, the state of Somalia, a clan or a diaspora community?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "society",
                                "name": "Society",
                                "description": "Clan and society.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "society-finding",
                                        "name": "Society",
                                        "description": "Society.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is Somali society organised through clan families, xeer customary law and pastoral traditions, as ethnographers describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral and non-reductive?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "precolonial",
                                "name": "Precolonial",
                                "description": "Early history.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "precolonial-finding",
                                        "name": "Precolonial",
                                        "description": "Precolonial.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do historians describe Somali sultanates, trade and Islam before colonisation?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "modern",
                                "name": "Modern",
                                "description": "Modern history.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "modern-finding",
                                        "name": "Modern",
                                        "description": "Modern.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did colonial partition, independence, the Barre era, civil war and state rebuilding unfold, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "today",
                        "name": "Today",
                        "description": "Today.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "politics",
                                "name": "Politics",
                                "description": "Politics and regions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "politics-finding",
                                        "name": "Politics",
                                        "description": "Politics.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the current political arrangements in Somalia, Somaliland and Somali regions of neighbouring states, with attribution?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific region?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "diaspora",
                                "name": "Diaspora",
                                "description": "Diaspora.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "diaspora-finding",
                                        "name": "Diaspora",
                                        "description": "Diaspora.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where do Somali diaspora communities live, such as in Denmark, and what do studies say about them?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific community?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "culture",
                        "name": "Culture",
                        "description": "Culture.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "arts",
                                "name": "Arts",
                                "description": "Poetry and arts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "arts-finding",
                                        "name": "Arts",
                                        "description": "Arts.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are Somali oral poetry, music and literary traditions?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Somali literature?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "daily",
                                "name": "Daily",
                                "description": "Daily life.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "daily-finding",
                                        "name": "Daily",
                                        "description": "Daily.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are Somali cuisine, dress, religion and family customs?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the clan families be separate entries?",
                "How should ethnographic sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming clans and a diaspora community; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "occupation or role",
            "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 Somalis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe the Somali people, their language, society and history with attribution from ethnographic and official sources, present the clan system and political questions neutrally, and route to entries for regions and diaspora communities.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "social",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "autonomous",
                "mobility": "self-moving"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Daarood, Dir Somali, Somalis in Denmark, Hawiye, Rahanweyn, Biimaal, Yibir, Somalis in Finland, Habar Gidir, Ashraaf, Bravanese people, Muse clan.",
                "20 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 62 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 Somalis, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.",
                "Acts on its own behalf.",
                "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": [
                "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "Daarood",
                        "Dir Somali",
                        "Somalis in Denmark",
                        "Hawiye",
                        "Rahanweyn",
                        "Biimaal",
                        "Yibir",
                        "Somalis in Finland",
                        "Habar Gidir",
                        "Ashraaf",
                        "Bravanese people",
                        "Muse clan"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 20 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 Somalis from another, and a Somalis 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis 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 Somalis 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis 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 Somalis from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a Somalis is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a Somalis is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Somalis, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Somalis, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a Somalis moves on its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Somalis, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Somalis, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Somalis 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 Somalis 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 Somalis between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis 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 Somalis, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Somalis 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "people-and-responsibility",
                        "name": "People, roles and responsibility",
                        "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Somalis.",
                        "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a Somalis and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a Somalis, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Somalis, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Somalis, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a Somalis and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a Somalis sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Somalis, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Somalis, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "competence-and-licence",
                        "name": "Competence, qualification and licence",
                        "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Somalis.",
                        "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competences",
                                "name": "Competences and qualifications",
                                "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "qualification-record",
                                        "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced",
                                        "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "qualification-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What competences and qualifications does Somalis require, and how is each evidenced?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "qualification-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "licensing",
                                "name": "Licensing and the right to practise",
                                "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "licence-record",
                                        "name": "Licence, issuer and validity",
                                        "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "licence-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who licenses Somalis, in which territory, and for how long?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "licence-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "tasks-and-accountability",
                        "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability",
                        "description": "What Somalis actually does and who answers for it.",
                        "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "tasks",
                                "name": "Tasks and typical duties",
                                "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "duty-record",
                                        "name": "Duties and setting",
                                        "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "duty-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What tasks define Somalis, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "duty-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "accountability",
                                "name": "Employment and accountability",
                                "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "responsibility",
                                        "name": "Responsibility and supervision",
                                        "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "responsibility-q01",
                                                "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Somalis, and who supervises or is liable?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "responsibility-q02",
                                                "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Somalis 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 Somalis and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis 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 Somalis is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Somalis, 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 Somalis, 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 Somalis is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 14,
                "findings": 16,
                "questions": 44
            }
        }
    }
}