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civil status the same word is an obsolete, now generally avoided, label for a person born with mixed male and female gonadal or genital characteristics, currently described as an intersex variation or a difference of sex development.", "scope_statement": "Within SOC.PER, this model owns the meaning, attribution, evidential basis and permitted use of the registered designation 'hermaphrodite' as applied to a person; the registry's missing definition leaves its precise extension unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Whether the designation is self-chosen, externally assigned, historical or quoted", "The particular sex characteristics or diagnostic interpretation the designation is claimed to describe", "Evidence, uncertainty and temporal context for each assertion associated with the designation", "The person's preferred terminology and boundaries on use of the designation", "Conditions for retaining, qualifying, correcting or restricting access to the designation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The 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"Separates the specific subject of an assertion from assumptions about the person's other characteristics." }, { "name": "Assertion evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported | supported by an identified record | disputed | superseded | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of individual assertions without assigning one blanket confidence level to the person." }, { "name": "Assertion provenance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to the speaker or author, original record, date and relevant passage", "why_it_matters": "Makes it possible to distinguish original evidence from copied or reinterpreted labels." }, { "name": "Preferred reference terminology", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "person's stated wording | no preference recorded | declines designation | context-dependent", "why_it_matters": "Guides how the agent refers to the person while keeping historical quotations attributable." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "current assertion | historical assertion | superseded assertion | applicability unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an old label or observation from being silently presented as a current assessment." }, { "name": "Permitted use", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Specified audience and purpose, with permission or other applicable authority recorded; otherwise unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates possessing a record from having authority to disclose it or use it in a decision." } ], "affordances": [ "Represent an attributed use of the designation without endorsing it as a diagnosis.", "Request clarification of the designation's intended meaning when necessary for an authorised task.", "Link specific assertions about sex characteristics to their evidence and mark unresolved contradictions.", "Use the person's stated terminology in generated references while preserving clearly marked source quotations.", "Flag unsupported mappings to intersex status, diagnosis, gender identity or reproductive capacity.", "Qualify, correct or restrict downstream use of the designation according to the evidence and applicable authority." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "hughes-2006-chicago-consensus", "title": "Consensus statement on management of intersex disorders", "url": "https://adc.bmj.com/content/91/7/554", "what_it_supports": "Establishes that LWPES/ESPE abandoned hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite as clinical terms for humans, replacing them with disorders of sex development and the ovotesticular/46,XX/46,XY typology.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "who-icd10-q56", "title": "ICD-10 Chapter XVII, Q56 Indeterminate sex and pseudohermaphroditism", "url": "https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en#/Q56", "what_it_supports": "Documents the residual diagnostic codes Q56.0 hermaphroditism NEC, Q56.1 male pseudohermaphroditism, Q56.2 female pseudohermaphroditism, and Q56.3 unspecified pseudohermaphroditism.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "lee-2016-dsd-update", "title": "Global Disorders of Sex Development Update since 2006: Perceptions, Approach and Care", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Confirms continued use of the 2006 DSD taxonomy, notes ongoing controversy over nomenclature, and summarises karyotype, hormone, and histology work-up still used where older hermaphrodite labels once sat." }, { "id": "isna-faq-hermaphrodite", "title": "Is a person who is intersex a hermaphrodite?", "url": "https://isna.org/faq/hermaphrodite/", "what_it_supports": "States the intersex advocacy position that hermaphrodite is a mythologised, stigmatising word for people and should not be used as a human identifier.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "designation-and-reference", "name": "Designation and reference", "description": "Establish what the word refers to and what its use asserts in this particular record.", "rationale": "An undefined registry name cannot safely serve as a biological definition or a 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"Is a named diagnosis explicitly documented, or has someone inferred it from the designation or an anatomical description?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "diagnosis-and-function-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "If reproductive capacity is relevant to the authorised task, what independent evidence supports the precise capacity being asserted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "diagnosis-and-function-boundaries-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "attribution-and-reassessment", "name": "Attribution and reassessment", "description": "Track how the designation and its supporting assertions entered the record and changed over time.", "rationale": "Copied labels, later interpretations and original observations must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-lineage", "name": "Source lineage", "description": "Identify original statements and subsequent transformations of their meaning.", "findings": [ { "id": "original-and-derived-claims", "name": "Original and derived claims", "description": 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"text": "Has the person stated that they use, accept or reject this designation, and for which contexts?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accepted-and-contextual-wording-q01" }, { "text": "What wording should the agent use in its own reference to the person, and when is an attributed quotation necessary?", "kind": "action", "id": "accepted-and-contextual-wording-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disclosure-and-decision-boundaries", "name": "Disclosure and decision boundaries", "description": "Connect access and use to a specific purpose and applicable authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "authorised-use-of-designation", "name": "Authorised use of designation", "description": "Determine whether the designation or underlying information is necessary and permitted for a proposed action.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the proposed audience and purpose, what permits disclosure of the designation or the underlying sex-characteristic information?", "kind": "action", "id": 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}, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "Q56.0", "note": "Hermaphroditism, not elsewhere classified; parent rubric Q56 also holds Q56.1-Q56.4 for pseudo- and indeterminate forms." }, { "scheme": "ICD-10", "value_or_pattern": "Q56.1 / Q56.2 / Q56.3", "note": "Male, female, and unspecified pseudohermaphroditism; superseded in practice by DSD language but still encountered in records." }, { "scheme": "MeSH", "value_or_pattern": "D006611", "note": "Historical heading Hermaphroditism; later cataloguing maps many of these records to Disorders of Sex Development." }, { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "item for biological hermaphroditism, distinct from the intersex item", "note": "Biology and human intersex are separate items; do not merge them." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of hermaphrodite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "WHO ICD-10 Q56 (World Health Organization) - residual statistical codes for hermaphroditism and pseudohermaphroditism", "Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology, Chicago Consensus 2006 - retires hermaphrodite/pseudohermaphrodite in clinical use for humans", "WHO ICD-11 - re-files the same variation under sexual-development / genital-anomaly headings rather than hermaphroditism", "Yogyakarta Principles plus 10 (2017) - international soft-law principles on bodily integrity and sex characteristics", "Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex 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"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Using hermaphrodite as a name or slur for an intersex or transgender person, which advocacy bodies and post-2006 clinical consensus treat as stigmatising", "Non-consensual infant genital surgery intended to produce a binary appearance, with later loss of sexual function, fertility, or trust", "Gonadal malignancy risk in some DSD genotypes (especially dysgenetic intra-abdominal gonads), historically bundled under the same label", "Broken longitudinal records when Q56.* codes are mixed with later DSD/intersex codes", "Inbreeding depression after self-fertilisation in simultaneous hermaphrodites", "Unwanted mixed flowers in dioecious or female-only crops (cannabis, some cucurbits), reducing product quality", "Policy confusion that treats hermaphroditism, intersex, and transgender status as one legal class" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of hermaphrodite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Anglophone clinical practice after 2006 prefers intersex or DSD and treats hermaphrodite as obsolete for people; organismal biology keeps the word", "Older French, German, and Latin medical texts retain hermaphrodisme vrai / Zwitter / hermaphroditismus verus as technical terms", "Some East Asian clinical papers continued true hermaphrodite for ovotesticular DSD later than European paediatric endocrinology", "Legal third-sex or divers markers (Germany, some Australian states, Malta) name civil status, not the zoological condition", "Grower slang (hermie) is common in North American and European cannabis horticulture and is not a medical identifier" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of hermaphrodite this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Intersex", "difference": "Intersex is the current human-rights and much clinical umbrella for congenital sex-characteristic variation; hermaphrodite is the abandoned human label and, separately, a living zoological term. 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Test: gonadal histology and karyotype." }, { "name": "Gonochorism (separate sexes)", "difference": "Individuals are stably male or female. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 60 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one hermaphrodite from another, and a hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite.", "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 hermaphrodite and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a hermaphrodite, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a hermaphrodite sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite.", "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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 hermaphrodite is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite, 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 hermaphrodite 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 } } } }