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"why": "month" }, { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "calendar date", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is linked to", "target": "German history", "why": "context" }, { "relation": "is expressed in", "target": "ISO 8601", "why": "notation" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "ISO 8601", "value_or_pattern": "--11-09", "note": "recurring date" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 8601" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Trivialising remembrance", "Unsourced or distorted history", "Day-month order confusion" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "date", "name": "Date", "description": "Calendar facts.", "rationale": "Calendar arithmetic.", "layers": [ { "id": "weekday", "name": "Weekday", "description": "Computation.", "findings": [ { "id": "weekday-finding", "name": "Weekday", "description": "Weekday.", "questions": [ { "text": "On which weekday does November 9 fall in this year?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "text": "Is it a leap year?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "format", "name": "Format", "description": "Notation.", "findings": [ { "id": "format-finding", "name": "Format", "description": "Date format.", "questions": [ { "text": "How should the date be written for this audience?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Is ISO format needed?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "German history.", "rationale": "History must be sourced and respectful.", "layers": [ { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "description": "Turning points.", "findings": [ { "id": "events-finding", "name": "Events", "description": "Historical events.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events are associated with this date, according to reliable historians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the context accurate?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "remembrance", "name": "Remembrance", "description": "November pogroms.", "findings": [ { "id": "remembrance-finding", "name": "Remembrance", "description": "Remembrance.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the 1938 pogrom remembered, and by which institutions?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the tone respectful?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observances", "name": "Observances", "description": "Commemorations.", "rationale": "The date is commemorated.", "layers": [ { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "description": "Ceremonies.", "findings": [ { "id": "events-finding", "name": "Events", "description": "Commemorations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which commemorations take place on this date?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Where?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "status", "name": "Status", "description": "Holiday or not.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-finding", "name": "Status", "description": "Holiday status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is it a public holiday anywhere?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Why was it not chosen as a German 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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. 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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": [ "November 9 in German history" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 223 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one November 9 from another, and a November 9 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 November 9, 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 November 9, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event 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"id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a November 9 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 November 9 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 November 9, 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 November 9, 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 November 9 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 November 9 from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a November 9, 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 November 9, 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 November 9 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 November 9 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 November 9 between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a November 9, 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 November 9, 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 November 9 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 November 9, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an 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"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 November 9 is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a November 9, 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 November 9, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", 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