{ "model": { "rank": 6774, "code": "thing-q273976", "model_id": "vr.tr.blockade", "name": "blockade", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a blockade, assess how it restricts passage and affects people, and identify the evidence and authority needed to evaluate proposed responses.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q273976/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "economic blockade", "Pacific blockade" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.blockade", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q273976", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273976", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:28:43Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a0887f-8f30-7451-9286-c5df9db191ac\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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model owns blockade as an organised activity that maintains restrictions on passage into, out of, or through a bounded place by controlling access routes, while recording disputed classifications and distinguishing military, civil and figurative uses.", "in_scope": [ "The place, population, routes and flows subject to restriction", "Actors imposing, maintaining, experiencing or contesting the blockade", "Means of controlling passage and evidence of actual enforcement", "Changes in coverage, permeability, exceptions and duration", "Stated objectives, observed consequences and conditions for termination", "Attributed classifications, authority claims and unresolved disputes" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The encompassing war, campaign or political conflict beyond its relationship to the blockade", "Siege operations such as bombardment or assault except where they enforce access restrictions", "Sanctions and embargoes whose restrictions do not involve controlling passage", "Ordinary access management without an organised denial or constraint on passage", "The engineering specifications of barriers, vessels and surveillance equipment", "Figurative uses such as mental blockage unless registry research establishes their inclusion" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify the bounded place and passages being controlled; a restriction on trade alone does not establish a blockade under this working scope.", "Separate a declared blockade from an enforced one by recording observed interception, obstruction, refusal or credible deterrence of passage.", "Test whether access denial is maintained over an interval; distinguish it from a single interception or momentary obstruction without imposing an unsupported minimum duration.", "Separate blockade from siege by identifying the access restriction component independently of encirclement, bombardment or capture operations.", "Record which actors and sources use the term blockade; a participant's label alone does not settle the classification." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Blockaded place and access network", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named place or area linked to affected ports, roads, crossings, air corridors or other passages", "why_it_matters": "Establishes what is being isolated and where restriction can be observed." }, { "name": "Restricted flows", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "People, food, water, medicine, fuel, commercial goods, military supplies or other specified flows; inbound, outbound or both", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes selective restrictions from claims of comprehensive isolation." }, { "name": "Imposing and enforcing actors", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor linked to ordering, implementing, supporting or independently maintaining restrictions", "why_it_matters": "Separates claimed control from responsibility for observed conduct." }, { "name": "Passage-control mechanism", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Physical obstruction, checkpoint refusal, interception, inspection with denial, threatened enforcement or a documented combination", "why_it_matters": "Explains how passage is constrained without assuming every blockade uses the same means." }, { "name": "Observed permeability", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Successful passages divided by observed attempts, by route, flow class and time interval; unknown where attempts are unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Measures practical restriction while exposing sampling limits." }, { "name": "Throughput change", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "People, vehicles or tonnes per day, with percentage change against a stated baseline", "why_it_matters": "Shows changes in movement while keeping baseline choice explicit." }, { "name": "Operational status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Declared, being established, enforced, partially suspended, suspended, lifted, disputed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents announcements from being treated as evidence of implementation or termination." }, { "name": "Restriction interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end timestamps, elapsed hours or days, and separately recorded interruptions", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison of phases and cumulative effects." }, { "name": "Exception accessibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Announced only, operational, intermittently available, denied, disputed or unknown, by exception category", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes permission on paper from passage in practice." }, { "name": "Classification and authority assessment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed assessment linked to terminology, claimed authority, applicable framework, date and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Keeps contested characterisation and permission judgments traceable." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare reported restrictions with the working blockade definition and flag uncertain classifications.", "Reconstruct changes in affected routes, flow categories and enforcement over time.", "Compare announced exceptions with documented access outcomes.", "Assess claims of isolation or effectiveness against observed passage and throughput.", "Trace reported deprivation and disruption to supporting evidence and competing explanations.", "Identify missing evidence, access procedures and competent review needed before recommending a response." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "blockade-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Blockade identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes what activity is being called a blockade and which restrictions constitute the instance.", "rationale": "Blockade can be a contested label, and its boundaries can overlap with siege, embargo, closure and protest.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-and-usage", "name": "Classification and usage", "description": "Records attributed meanings and the evidence needed to apply them.", "findings": [ { "id": "working-definition-and-competing-labels", "name": "Working definition and competing labels", "description": "Record how relevant sources classify the activity and which observable criteria support or challenge each classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which criteria distinguish blockade from embargo, siege, border closure and protest obstruction in the relevant usage?", "kind": "definition", "id": "working-definition-and-competing-labels-q01" }, { "text": "Who calls this activity a blockade, who disputes that description, and what evidence does each cite?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "working-definition-and-competing-labels-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "instance-delimitation", "name": "Instance delimitation", "description": "Identifies the geographic and temporal extent of one blockade instance.", "findings": [ { "id": "restricted-place-and-episode", "name": "Restricted place and episode", "description": "Record the bounded place, affected passages and criteria for treating successive restrictions as one episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which place and inbound or outbound passages are included, and which nearby restrictions belong to separate activities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "restricted-place-and-episode-q01" }, { "text": "Does a suspension, change of enforcing actor or change of restricted flows start a new blockade or a new phase of the same one?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "restricted-place-and-episode-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-control-and-permeability", "name": "Passage control and permeability", "description": "Describes how access restrictions operate and how much movement continues.", "rationale": "A blockade's practical state depends on enforced control of passage rather than its declared extent alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "enforcement-at-access-points", "name": "Enforcement at access points", "description": "Connects restrictions to observed conduct at affected routes.", "findings": [ { "id": "restriction-mechanisms-and-selection", "name": "Restriction mechanisms and selection", "description": "Record how passage is prevented or conditioned, which flows are selected and the evidence of implementation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented acts or threats constrain passage on each affected route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "restriction-mechanisms-and-selection-q01" }, { "text": "Which people or goods are refused, delayed, inspected or admitted, and how do those outcomes vary by direction?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "restriction-mechanisms-and-selection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-observed-movement", "name": "Coverage and observed movement", "description": "Assesses access-network coverage and remaining movement without equating incomplete observations with total isolation.", "findings": [ { "id": "permeability-and-observation-limits", "name": "Permeability and observation limits", "description": "Record throughput, attempted passage, successful passage and gaps in observation by route and flow class.", "questions": [ { "text": "How much passage continues compared with a specified baseline, and which routes or flow classes lack reliable observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "permeability-and-observation-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Do low passage counts reflect enforcement, deterrence, reduced demand, damaged infrastructure or an unresolved combination?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "permeability-and-observation-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "actors-objectives-and-authority", "name": "Actors, objectives and authority", "description": "Links control of access to responsible actors, stated purposes and attributed authority assessments.", "rationale": "The actor announcing a blockade may differ from those enforcing it, and objectives do not by themselves establish authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "responsibility-and-purpose", "name": "Responsibility and purpose", "description": "Separates orders, implementation, support and stated intended outcomes.", "findings": [ { "id": "actor-roles-and-stated-demands", "name": "Actor roles and stated demands", "description": "Record actor roles and attributed demands without treating asserted motives as established explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who orders the restrictions, who implements them, and what evidence connects each actor to particular access decisions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actor-roles-and-stated-demands-q01" }, { "text": "What demands or objectives have imposing actors stated, and have those statements changed during the blockade?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actor-roles-and-stated-demands-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-contested-assessment", "name": "Authority and contested assessment", "description": "Records the frameworks and factual predicates used to assess the activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-framework-and-review", "name": "Applicable framework and review", "description": "Keep authority claims, expert interpretations and formal determinations attributed and distinct from operational observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which framework does each assessment apply, and which disputed facts determine whether that framework applies?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-framework-and-review-q01" }, { "text": "What competent review and additional evidence are needed before an agent can evaluate whether a proposed access restriction or response is permissible?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-framework-and-review-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exceptions-and-affected-populations", "name": "Exceptions and affected populations", "description": "Examines practical access for permitted movement and consequences for people dependent on restricted flows.", "rationale": "Aggregate restriction measures can conceal failed exceptions and unequal exposure to deprivation.", "layers": [ { "id": "permitted-passage-in-practice", "name": "Permitted passage in practice", "description": "Tracks whether announced exemptions translate into usable access.", "findings": [ { "id": "exception-procedures-and-outcomes", "name": "Exception procedures and outcomes", "description": "Record eligibility, application requirements, operating windows, denials and completed passage for each exception.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which exceptions exist for relief supplies, medical movement, evacuation or other passage, and who administers them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "exception-procedures-and-outcomes-q01" }, { "text": "How many eligible movements are completed, delayed or denied, and what reasons and waiting times are documented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exception-procedures-and-outcomes-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "dependence-and-consequences", "name": "Dependence and consequences", "description": "Relates access restrictions to essential supplies and services while preserving uncertainty about causation.", "findings": [ { "id": "deprivation-and-causal-evidence", "name": "Deprivation and causal evidence", "description": "Record affected groups, dependence on restricted flows, observed shortages and alternative explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which populations and essential services depend on the restricted flows, and what changes in availability, affordability or service continuity are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "deprivation-and-causal-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes blockade-related effects from destruction, displacement, distribution failures or pre-existing scarcity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "deprivation-and-causal-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "phases-effectiveness-and-termination", "name": "Phases, effectiveness and termination", "description": "Tracks operational changes, evaluates stated objectives and tests whether access has actually been restored.", "rationale": "Restrictions can change unevenly across routes, and declared success or lifting may diverge from observed conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "operational-phase-changes", "name": "Operational phase changes", "description": "Distinguishes announcements from implementation and records partial changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "phase-transition-evidence", "name": "Phase transition evidence", "description": "Record when restrictions begin, intensify, relax or pause, with route-specific evidence and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence establishes actual enforcement, relaxation or suspension on each affected route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "phase-transition-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which restrictions remain active when a general suspension or lifting is announced?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "phase-transition-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "outcome-and-restored-access", "name": "Outcome and restored access", "description": "Separates reduced movement, achievement of stated objectives and verified termination.", "findings": [ { "id": "success-claims-and-end-conditions", "name": "Success claims and end conditions", "description": "Assess outcomes against explicit criteria and distinguish continuing enforcement from residual disruption.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports achievement of each stated objective, beyond evidence that passage was reduced?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "success-claims-and-end-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What observations would justify marking the blockade ended, and how would continuing restrictions be distinguished from recovery delays?", "kind": "action", "id": "success-claims-and-end-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded; this account assumes military or political restriction of access, with protest usage included, rather than pharmacological blockade.", "Military and protest uses share an access-restriction mechanism but do not share a single legal framework.", "Legal requirements and the classification of any particular operation require source-based verification; the named manual was recalled, not consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Naval blockade", "Aerial blockade", "Land blockade", "Protest blockade" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea (1994), prepared by international experts under the auspices of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law: a nonbinding restatement that addresses naval blockade." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Restricting an adversary's supply routes and external trade during armed conflict.", "Isolating ports or coastal areas to exert military and economic pressure.", "Preventing reinforcements or military supplies from reaching an area.", "Obstructing access to roads, workplaces, or facilities as a protest tactic." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Civilian shortages of food, medicine, fuel, and other necessities.", "Disruption of humanitarian access and evacuation.", "Escalation through encounters with vessels, aircraft, or people attempting passage.", "Evasion through alternative routes, smuggling, or gaps in enforcement.", "Economic harm extending to communities and trading partners outside the target area." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "siege", "difference": "A siege targets a defended locality through encirclement and sustained military pressure; a blockade can restrict access without attempting to capture the locality." }, { "name": "embargo", "difference": "An embargo prohibits specified trade or transfers; a blockade enforces restrictions on physical passage into or out of an area." }, { "name": "sanctions", "difference": "Sanctions encompass restrictive measures such as asset freezes and trade prohibitions; a blockade specifically restricts access or movement." }, { "name": "interdiction", "difference": "Interdiction disrupts particular movements or supplies; a blockade maintains an access restriction around a defined place or area." }, { "name": "roadblock", "difference": "A roadblock is a barrier or checkpoint on a route; it may implement part of a blockade without itself isolating an area." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of blockade this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend blockade to include civil protest blockades and nonmilitary access restrictions, or primarily the military concept?", "Which existing Vercy world models already cover blockade, siege or access denial, and should this entry link to one of them?", "Which authoritative reference works support the working definition, and where do military, legal and everyday usages diverge?", "What evidence and temporal criteria should distinguish a maintained blockade from intermittent closure or isolated obstruction?", "Which measures of permeability and essential-flow deprivation remain comparable when attempted passage is largely unobserved?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a blockade, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a blockade, assess how it restricts passage and affects people, and identify the evidence and authority needed to evaluate proposed responses.", "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: economic blockade, Pacific blockade.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 58 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 blockade, 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": [ "economic blockade", "Pacific blockade" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one blockade from another, and a blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a blockade 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 blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade 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 blockade?", "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 blockade?", "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 blockade 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 blockade and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 blockade is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a blockade, 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 blockade, 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 blockade 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 } } } }