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"target": "branch of service", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is part of", "target": "military organization", "why": "armed forces" }, { "relation": "is organised in", "target": "brigade", "why": "formations" }, { "relation": "is governed by", "target": "international humanitarian law", "why": "law" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Military law and codes of conduct", "Geneva Conventions", "Veterans and records legislation" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Providing tactical or operational detail", "Glorifying warfare", "Unsourced claims about units" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "limits", "name": "Limits", "description": "Agent conduct.", "rationale": "General level only.", "layers": [ { "id": "decline", "name": "Decline", "description": "No tactical detail.", "findings": [ { "id": "decline-finding", "name": "Decline", "description": "Limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the request seek tactics, weapons employment or operational detail?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "How should the agent keep to history, general role and law?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tone", "name": "Tone", "description": "Respectful account.", "findings": [ { "id": "tone-finding", "name": "Tone", "description": "Tone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is warfare described without glorification and with attention to its costs?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "Are contested claims attributed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Infantry through time.", "rationale": "Sources matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "types", "name": "Types", "description": "Historical types.", "findings": [ { "id": "types-finding", "name": "Types", "description": "Historical types.", "questions": [ { "text": "What were ashigaru, eagle warriors, pandurs or other historical infantry, according to historians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How did infantry change with technology?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "units", "name": "Units", "description": "A specific unit.", "findings": [ { "id": "units-finding", "name": "Units", "description": "Units.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the documented history of this infantry unit, according to official histories?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "When was it formed or disbanded?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people", "name": "People", "description": "Soldiers and veterans.", "rationale": "Research support.", "layers": [ { "id": "records", "name": "Records", "description": "Service records.", "findings": [ { "id": "records-finding", "name": "Records", "description": "Service records.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can a family find an ancestor infantry service records here?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which veterans services exist?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "memorials", "name": "Memorials", "description": "Remembrance.", "findings": [ { "id": "memorials-finding", "name": "Memorials", "description": "Memorials.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which memorials and museums relate to this infantry unit or war?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How is remembrance conducted?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "today", "name": "Today", "description": "Public role and law.", "rationale": "General information.", "layers": [ { "id": "role", "name": "Role", "description": "Modern role at public level.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-finding", "name": "Role", "description": "Role.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the general role of infantry today, including peacekeeping and disaster response, according to public sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How are recruitment and service described officially?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "law", "name": "Law", "description": "Legal framework.", "findings": [ { "id": "law-finding", "name": "Law", "description": "Law.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which laws govern the conduct of infantry and protect civilians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How are violations investigated?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each historical infantry type be a separate entry?", "How should archives be linked?", "How should sensitive topics be bounded?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organisation or institution", "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 infantry, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe infantry as a branch of service at the general and historical level, support veterans, records and heritage research, explain the legal framework, and decline requests for operational or tactical detail.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "collective" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: sissi, kachi, ashigaru, eagle warrior, Seimeni, Pandur, marine force, United States Marine Corps unit, jägers, air force infantry and special forces unit, French Marine, coastal infantry.", "45 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 87 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 infantry, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Acts through people, and only through them.", "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. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "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": [ "sissi", "kachi", "ashigaru", "eagle warrior", "Seimeni", "Pandur", "marine force", "United States Marine Corps unit", "jägers", "air force infantry and special forces unit", "French Marine", "coastal infantry" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 87 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 45 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 infantry from another, and a infantry 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 infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry 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 infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry 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 infantry between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a infantry 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 infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry.", 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"role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a infantry 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 infantry and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a infantry sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a infantry, 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 infantry, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": 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legal form does infantry take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of infantry, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in infantry and who belongs to 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{ "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does infantry have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a infantry 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 infantry and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a infantry, 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 infantry, 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 infantry 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 infantry is 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