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        "rank": 18341,
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        "name": "administrative divisions of Germany",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain the administrative divisions of Germany and their levels, relay the structure, powers and variations from official and reference sources, describe city districts and municipal forms, and distinguish administrative units from statistical, electoral and judicial districts.",
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                "Stadtbezirk",
                "district of Leipzig, Germany",
                "District of Wuppertal",
                "city district of Cologne",
                "city district of Hanover",
                "district of Bremen",
                "borough of Dresden",
                "district of Düsseldorf",
                "borough of Berlin",
                "special municipality association of Germany",
                "LAU 1 of Germany",
                "Amt",
                "Verbandsgemeinde in Sachsen-Anhalt",
                "Verbandsgemeinde in Rhineland-Palatinate",
                "Verwaltungsverband of Saxony",
                "Planungsraum",
                "administrative territorial entity of Berlin",
                "administrative structure of Berlin",
                "agreed administrative community in Baden-Württemberg, Germany",
                "districts and some cities of Germany",
                "unincorporated area in Germany",
                "higher municipal association of Germany",
                "Erfüllende Gemeinde of Thuringia",
                "amt of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel",
                "regional center of Germany",
                "general governorate of Nazi Germany",
                "administrative territorial entity of Lower Saxony",
                "Verbandsgemeinde",
                "district of German East Africa",
                "residency of the German Empire",
                "government region of the Grand Duchy of Hesse",
                "government region of a Reichsgau",
                "regional district in Bavaria",
                "district administration in Berlin"
            ],
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                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T06:46:10Z",
                "providers": [
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                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
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                "wave": 3,
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                "name": "administrative divisions of Germany",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain the administrative divisions of Germany and their levels, relay the structure, powers and variations from official and reference sources, describe city districts and municipal forms, and distinguish administrative units from statistical, electoral and judicial districts.",
                "definition": "The hierarchy of territorial units by which Germany is governed, consisting of the federal level, 16 states or Lander, governmental regions in some states, about 400 districts and district-free cities, municipalities and, within large cities, city districts or Stadtbezirke such as those of Cologne, Hanover, Leipzig, Wuppertal and Bremen, together with municipal associations and special forms such as the city-states; the structure reflects federalism and varies between states.",
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                "affordances": [
                    "explain the levels",
                    "relay structure and powers",
                    "describe city districts",
                    "distinguish other divisions"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Federal structure",
                    "State-level variation",
                    "Districts and municipalities",
                    "City districts in large cities"
                ],
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                "visual_identification": [
                    "Federal, state, regional, district, municipal and city district levels of Germany",
                    "Lander, Regierungsbezirke, Landkreise, kreisfreie Stadte, Gemeinden, Stadtbezirke of Cologne, Hanover, Leipzig, Wuppertal and Bremen",
                    "Statistical NUTS regions overlay the structure; electoral and court districts are separate"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "states",
                        "typical_range": "16",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "districts and district-free cities",
                        "typical_range": "about 400",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "municipalities",
                        "typical_range": "about 11000",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "city-states",
                        "typical_range": "3",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": "Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "states or Lander including city-states",
                    "governmental regions or Regierungsbezirke",
                    "rural districts and district-free cities",
                    "municipalities and municipal associations",
                    "city districts or Stadtbezirke and boroughs",
                    "special forms such as Amter and Verbandsgemeinden"
                ],
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                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "hierarchy of administrative territorial entities",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "administrative territorial entity of a single country",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "states of Germany",
                        "why": "at the first level"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "includes",
                        "target": "districts of Germany",
                        "why": "at the district level"
                    }
                ],
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                    {
                        "scheme": "ISO 3166-2",
                        "value_or_pattern": "DE",
                        "note": "states of Germany"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "NUTS",
                        "value_or_pattern": "DE",
                        "note": "statistical regions of Germany"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "AGS",
                        "value_or_pattern": "official municipality key",
                        "note": "Amtlicher Gemeindeschlussel"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Basic Law of Germany on federalism and local self-government",
                    "State municipal codes",
                    "ISO 3166-2 and official key systems"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Assuming uniform structures across states",
                    "Stale counts after territorial reforms",
                    "Confusing city districts with rural districts"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
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            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "The divisions.",
                        "rationale": "Definition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Levels.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is Germany divided into states, regions, districts, municipalities and city districts?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about administrative units, statistical regions or electoral and court districts?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "cities",
                                "name": "Cities",
                                "description": "City districts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "cities-finding",
                                        "name": "Cities",
                                        "description": "Cities.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are Stadtbezirke, and how do the districts of Cologne, Hanover, Leipzig, Wuppertal and Bremen work?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific city?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "govern",
                        "name": "Govern",
                        "description": "Governance.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "powers",
                                "name": "Powers",
                                "description": "Powers.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "powers-finding",
                                        "name": "Powers",
                                        "description": "Powers.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What powers do states, districts and municipalities hold, and how does local self-government work?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "variation",
                                "name": "Variation",
                                "description": "State variation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "variation-finding",
                                        "name": "Variation",
                                        "description": "Variation.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do structures vary between states, including Regierungsbezirke, Amter and city-states?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "Sources.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "past",
                                "name": "Past",
                                "description": "History.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "past-finding",
                                        "name": "Past",
                                        "description": "Past.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did the divisions develop from Prussian reforms through reunification and territorial reforms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the history of German administration?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "codes",
                                "name": "Codes",
                                "description": "Codes and data.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "codes-finding",
                                        "name": "Codes",
                                        "description": "Codes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are units coded in ISO 3166-2, NUTS and the official municipality key?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Amtlicher Gemeindeschlussel?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Context.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "data",
                                "name": "Data",
                                "description": "Data.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "data-finding",
                                        "name": "Data",
                                        "description": "Data.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where are population and boundary data for German units published?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Federal Statistical Office of Germany?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "comparison",
                                "name": "Comparison",
                                "description": "Comparison.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "comparison-finding",
                                        "name": "Comparison",
                                        "description": "Comparison.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do German divisions compare with those of Austria and Switzerland?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits federalism in Germany?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the levels be separate primary entries?",
                "How should official sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming city districts of specific cities; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "work, medium or creative form",
            "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 administrative divisions of Germany, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the administrative divisions of Germany and their levels, relay the structure, powers and variations from official and reference sources, describe city districts and municipal forms, and distinguish administrative units from statistical, electoral and judicial districts.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "information",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "read and interpreted",
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Stadtbezirk, district of Leipzig, Germany, District of Wuppertal, city district of Cologne, city district of Hanover, district of Bremen, borough of Dresden, district of Düsseldorf, borough of Berlin, special municipality association of Germany, LAU 1 of Germany, Amt.",
                "34 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 29 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 administrative divisions of Germany, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "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": [
                "read it and act on what it says",
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "Stadtbezirk",
                        "district of Leipzig, Germany",
                        "District of Wuppertal",
                        "city district of Cologne",
                        "city district of Hanover",
                        "district of Bremen",
                        "borough of Dresden",
                        "district of Düsseldorf",
                        "borough of Berlin",
                        "special municipality association of Germany",
                        "LAU 1 of Germany",
                        "Amt"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 29 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 34 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 administrative divisions of Germany from another, and a administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
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                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
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                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a administrative divisions of Germany says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a administrative divisions of Germany contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a administrative divisions of Germany, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a administrative divisions of Germany, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a administrative divisions of Germany is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a administrative divisions of Germany and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a administrative divisions of Germany, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a administrative divisions of Germany, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a administrative divisions of Germany is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "work-and-manifestation",
                        "name": "Work, version and copy",
                        "description": "Which level of administrative divisions of Germany a statement is about.",
                        "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "levels",
                                "name": "Levels of the thing",
                                "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "level-rules",
                                        "name": "What belongs at each level",
                                        "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "For administrative divisions of Germany, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "level-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "versions",
                                "name": "Versions, editions and variants",
                                "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "version-record",
                                        "name": "Versions and canonicity",
                                        "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which versions or editions of administrative divisions of Germany exist, and how do they differ substantively?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "version-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "authorship-and-rights",
                        "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use",
                        "description": "Who made administrative divisions of Germany and what may be done with it.",
                        "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "authorship",
                                "name": "Authorship and contribution",
                                "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "contribution-record",
                                        "name": "Contributors and roles",
                                        "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who authored or contributed to administrative divisions of Germany, in what roles, and how is that attested?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "contribution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "rights",
                                "name": "Rights and permissions",
                                "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "rights-record",
                                        "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts",
                                        "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What rights subsist in administrative divisions of Germany, in which jurisdictions, and until when?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "rights-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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 administrative divisions of Germany is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany, 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 administrative divisions of Germany 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
            }
        }
    }
}