{ "model": { "rank": 4405, "code": "thing-q3882219", "model_id": "vr.tr.assassination", "name": "assassination", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, document and assess a reported assassination while distinguishing established events, contested classifications and unresolved attribution.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q3882219/", "tier": 2, "score": 75, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "targeted killing by Israel", "political murder", "Feme murders" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 75, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q3882219", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3882219", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:08:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087c8-954a-74f1-9caa-08f953df02c6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: assassination\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: ACT.ACT\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 695 things:\n# Batch 004: 1001 re", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 66, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a087c8-953b-7ec2-8386-bb93312d91c4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: assassination\nRegistry id: vr.tr.assassination\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q3882219", "registryId": "vr.tr.assassination", "name": "assassination", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3882219/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.assassination", "name": "assassination", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, document and assess a reported assassination while distinguishing established events, contested classifications and unresolved attribution.", "definition": "Assassination is the deliberate killing of a particular person, usually someone politically or publicly prominent, for reasons connected to that person's identity, position, activities, or symbolic significance, although definitions differ over whether political motivation or public prominence is essential.", "scope_statement": "This model owns assassination as a deliberate lethal act directed at a selected person because of their public role, influence, symbolic significance or connection to a political, ideological or institutional struggle, while preserving disagreement about the term's boundaries and distinguishing attempts from completed killings.", "in_scope": [ "Definitions of assassination and the criteria used by particular sources or research traditions", "Reported completed assassinations, attempted assassinations and disputed cases", "The selected person's role and the stated or inferred reasons they were selected", "Evidence concerning intent, responsibility, sponsorship and motive", "Immediate outcomes and claims about political, institutional or social consequences" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General homicide classification beyond the distinctions needed to assess assassination", "Operational planning, weapon selection, vulnerabilities or techniques for attacking a person", "Full biographies of the people involved", "The organisation and conduct of wars, coups, terrorist campaigns or repression beyond their relationship to the incident", "Independent legal adjudication of criminal liability or the lawfulness of a killing", "Metaphorical character assassination and other nonlethal reputational attacks" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The person was deliberately selected: death caused incidentally or through indiscriminate violence does not alone establish assassination.", "Evidence supports an intention to kill the selected person; accidental death or an intention only to injure requires another classification.", "The person's role, influence or symbolic significance is connected to their selection under an explicitly recorded definition; prominence alone is insufficient.", "The model separates the event's classification from labels such as terrorism, execution or wartime killing, which may overlap or be contested.", "An attempted assassination involves a reported act directed toward killing the selected person without that person's resulting death; threats, suspected preparations and rumours remain separately identified." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Classification under a named definition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Completed assassination | attempted assassination | disputed classification | outside definition | insufficient evidence; definition and classifier recorded", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a contested label from becoming an unexplained fact." }, { "name": "Incident verification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Alleged | corroborated | disputed | refuted | unresolved, with supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates confidence that an incident occurred from confidence about its meaning or authorship." }, { "name": "Evidence of lethal intent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly documented | inferred with stated grounds | disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an intentional killing or attempt from accidents and other violence." }, { "name": "Selected person's relevant role", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person linked to public office, political activity, institutional authority, symbolic position or other claimed basis for selection at the incident date", "why_it_matters": "Makes the connection between the person and the assassination classification inspectable." }, { "name": "Attributed motive", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Political | ideological | religious | institutional | personal | mixed | other | unknown; attributed by a named source", "why_it_matters": "Allows competing motives without treating inference or an actor's declaration as settled explanation." }, { "name": "Attributed participation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor linked to alleged direct participation, ordering, sponsorship or assistance, with separate evidence status for each role", "why_it_matters": "Prevents responsibility for one role from being automatically extended to other people or organisations." }, { "name": "Selected person's outcome", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Died from incident | injured and survived as of a stated date | physically unharmed | causal relationship disputed | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports the distinction between completed and attempted assassination, including delayed deaths." }, { "name": "Incident and outcome dates", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Calendar dates or bounded date intervals, with precision and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates the date of the act from later death, attribution and institutional response." }, { "name": "Claimed wider consequence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Incident linked to a subsequent political, institutional or social change, with the causal claim's source and evidential limits", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes demonstrated effects from events that merely followed the killing." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a reported incident meets an explicitly chosen definition of assassination.", "Compare competing classifications, motives and responsibility claims without erasing disagreement.", "Track changes from allegation to corroboration and from attempted to completed classification when outcomes become established.", "Link the incident to relevant people, organisations and surrounding conflicts without duplicating their models.", "Produce a source-qualified account that distinguishes observations, allegations, findings and unresolved questions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "assassination-boundaries", "name": "Assassination boundaries", "description": "The definitions and discriminating criteria that govern whether the term applies.", "rationale": "Assassination is an interpretive classification whose scope cannot be inferred solely from a death or a person's prominence.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition-and-selection", "name": "Definition and selection", "description": "How a definition connects deliberate personal selection to role, motive or public significance.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-selection", "name": "Qualifying selection", "description": "Record the adopted definition and the evidence that the person was selected for reasons relevant to it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose definition is being applied, and does it require public prominence, political motive, a particular perpetrator relationship or some combination?", "kind": "definition", "id": "qualifying-selection-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects this person's deliberate selection to the qualifying criteria?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualifying-selection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-classifications", "name": "Neighbouring classifications", "description": "The relationship between assassination and other descriptions of lethal violence.", "findings": [ { "id": "overlap-and-exclusion", "name": "Overlap and exclusion", "description": "Record why an incident is included, excluded or multiply classified without assuming neighbouring categories are mutually exclusive.", "questions": [ { "text": "What distinguishes this case from personal homicide, incidental wartime death, execution or indiscriminate violence under the adopted definition?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "overlap-and-exclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which sources also classify the incident as terrorism, targeted killing or another form of violence, and where do their criteria differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "overlap-and-exclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "incident-and-lethal-outcome", "name": "Incident and lethal outcome", "description": "Whether a qualifying act occurred and what happened to the selected person.", "rationale": "A threat, an attempt, a completed killing and an unverified report must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "act-and-intent", "name": "Act and intent", "description": "Evidence of an actual incident and an intention to cause the selected person's death.", "findings": [ { "id": "substantiated-lethal-act", "name": "Substantiated lethal act", "description": "Separate evidence that an act occurred from evidence of lethal intent and from claims about earlier preparations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes an act against the selected person rather than only a threat, rumour or alleged preparation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "substantiated-lethal-act-q01" }, { "text": "What supports an intention to kill, and which plausible alternative interpretations remain unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "substantiated-lethal-act-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-and-causation", "name": "Completion and causation", "description": "The person's survival or death and its causal relationship to the incident.", "findings": [ { "id": "outcome-based-classification", "name": "Outcome-based classification", "description": "Track the outcome as of a stated date and preserve uncertainty about delayed or disputed deaths.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the selected person's verified outcome, and as of what date is it known?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "outcome-based-classification-q01" }, { "text": "If death occurred later, what evidence links it to the incident and supports updating the classification?", "kind": "action", "id": "outcome-based-classification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "selection-motive-and-responsibility", "name": "Selection, motive and responsibility", "description": "Why this person was selected and which actors are alleged or established to have participated.", "rationale": "The selected person's significance, perpetrators' motives and chains of responsibility are related but require separate evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "person-and-motive", "name": "Person and motive", "description": "The person's relevant position and competing explanations for their selection.", "findings": [ { "id": "selection-explanations", "name": "Selection explanations", "description": "Record the person's role at the time and distinguish declared, inferred and disputed motives.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which role or activity of the selected person is claimed to explain their selection, and was it relevant at the incident date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "selection-explanations-q01" }, { "text": "Which motives are supported by direct statements, independent evidence or interpretation, and can several coexist?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "selection-explanations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-and-sponsorship", "name": "Participation and sponsorship", "description": "Separate attribution of direct participation from ordering, financing or institutional sponsorship.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-specific-attribution", "name": "Role-specific attribution", "description": "Attach responsibility claims to particular roles without inferring an organisation's involvement from affiliation alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is alleged or established to have acted, ordered or sponsored the incident, and what evidence supports each distinct role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "role-specific-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What supports any claimed organisational or state responsibility beyond the participant's affiliation or a claim of credit?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-specific-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-contestation", "name": "Evidence and contestation", "description": "How assassination claims are sourced, challenged and revised.", "rationale": "A verified death can coexist with unresolved authorship, motive and classification, requiring claim-specific assessment.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance", "description": "The origins and independence of evidence supporting individual claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "independent-corroboration", "name": "Independent corroboration", "description": "Distinguish firsthand evidence, investigation findings and repeated reporting that depends on a common origin.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which accessible source supports each claim about selection, intent, outcome and responsibility?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "independent-corroboration-q01" }, { "text": "Do apparently corroborating accounts provide independent evidence or repeat the same witness, announcement or report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "independent-corroboration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "disputes-and-revisions", "name": "Disputes and revisions", "description": "Competing accounts and the conditions for updating an assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-specific-uncertainty", "name": "Claim-specific uncertainty", "description": "Keep uncertainties local to the disputed claim and preserve the basis for revisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which facts are agreed, which are disputed, and what evidence explains the disagreement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claim-specific-uncertainty-q01" }, { "text": "What new evidence would justify revising a particular attribution or classification, and how will the previous assessment be retained?", "kind": "action", "id": "claim-specific-uncertainty-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "aftermath-and-interpretation", "name": "Aftermath and interpretation", "description": "Immediate effects, institutional responses and subsequent interpretations of the assassination.", "rationale": "The act's consequences and public meaning must be recorded without confusing them with the perpetrators' intentions.", "layers": [ { "id": "effects-and-causal-claims", "name": "Effects and causal claims", "description": "Direct outcomes and attributed effects on institutions or political developments.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-versus-intention", "name": "Consequence versus intention", "description": "Distinguish intended effects, observed changes and claims that the assassination caused those changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What immediate losses or institutional changes are documented, including effects on people other than the selected person?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "consequence-versus-intention-q01" }, { "text": "Which wider consequences are causally supported, and which are interpretations based primarily on temporal sequence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "consequence-versus-intention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutional-and-public-accounts", "name": "Institutional and public accounts", "description": "How investigations, adjudications and public narratives describe the incident.", "findings": [ { "id": "findings-and-public-labels", "name": "Findings and public labels", "description": "Record institutional determinations and public characterisations with their authors, dates and limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What have relevant investigations or courts determined, and which questions did those processes leave unanswered?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "findings-and-public-labels-q01" }, { "text": "How do official, scholarly and affected-community accounts differ in applying the assassination label or explaining its significance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "findings-and-public-labels-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes the literal killing sense, excluding metaphorical character assassination.", "Political motivation and victim prominence are disputed defining criteria; a research model should state its inclusion rules.", "The listed kinds overlap and are not an exhaustive taxonomy; no sources were consulted for this recall-based description." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Political assassination", "Religiously motivated assassination", "State-sponsored assassination" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Historical analysis of political violence and leadership change", "Research on the causes and consequences of targeted political killing", "Protective security assessment for public figures", "Classification of events in political violence datasets" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Completed assassinations within a defined population and period", "typical_range": "Nonnegative integer; depends on the inclusion criteria and reporting coverage", "unit": "events" }, { "quantity": "Proportion of recorded assassination attempts resulting in the intended victim's death", "typical_range": "0-100", "unit": "percent" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Death or injury to the intended victim and other people", "Retaliatory violence, repression, or escalation of conflict", "Political instability and disruption of institutional succession", "Misattribution of responsibility or motive", "Inconsistent definitions that make historical cases and datasets difficult to compare" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Usage varies across political and linguistic contexts, especially over whether the victim must be prominent or the motive political.", "The same killing may receive different labels from governments, opposition groups, historians, and journalists." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Homicide", "difference": "Homicide encompasses one person killing another; assassination additionally involves deliberate selection of a particular victim and usually political or public significance." }, { "name": "Attempted assassination", "difference": "The intended killing is attempted but the intended victim does not die from it." }, { "name": "Targeted killing", "difference": "Targeted killing is a broader and contested category of intentional killing of selected individuals; whether a particular case is called assassination depends on the definition and context." }, { "name": "Terrorism", "difference": "Terrorism typically involves violence intended to intimidate or coerce an audience beyond the immediate victim; assassination need not have that wider purpose, although the categories can overlap." }, { "name": "Regicide", "difference": "Regicide identifies the victim as a monarch; assassination does not require royal status." }, { "name": "Contract killing", "difference": "Contract killing is distinguished by a commissioned killing, commonly for payment; assassination does not require a contract or payment." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of assassination this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which reference definitions should anchor this model, especially where public prominence and political motive are treated differently?", "How should the adopted definitions classify killings of private individuals selected for symbolic or collective political significance?", "Where should the conceptual boundaries lie between assassination, execution, wartime targeted killing and lethal state repression?", "What evidentiary threshold should distinguish an attempted assassination from a threat or alleged preparation across research contexts?", "Which existing Vercy models already own homicide, violent attempts or targeted killing, and what should this entry inherit or link to?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a assassination, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, document and assess a reported assassination while distinguishing established events, contested classifications and unresolved attribution.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: targeted killing by Israel, political murder, Feme murders.", "4 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 75 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 assassination, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "targeted killing by Israel", "political murder", "Feme murders" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 75 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 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 assassination from another, and a assassination 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 assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination 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 assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination 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 assassination between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a assassination 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 assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a assassination proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a assassination, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a assassination and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a assassination, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a assassination, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a assassination is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a assassination consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a assassination takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a assassination, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a assassination, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a assassination is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What assassination is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of assassination are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is assassination operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of assassination and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of assassination?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as assassination?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a assassination 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 assassination and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 assassination is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a assassination, 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 assassination, 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 assassination 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 } } } }