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                "syphilitic aortic aneurysm",
                "neurosyphilis",
                "secondary syphilitic hepatitis",
                "bursa syphilis",
                "syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis",
                "syphilitic meningitis",
                "asymptomatic neurosyphilis",
                "syphilitic peritonitis",
                "syphilitic pericarditis",
                "congenital syphilitic encephalitis",
                "meningovascular neurosyphilis",
                "tertiary syphilitic meningitis",
                "secondary syphilitic meningitis",
                "pulmonary syphilis",
                "nasal syphilis",
                "secondary syphilitic chorioretinitis",
                "syphilitic myocarditis",
                "syphilitic endocarditis",
                "primary syphilis",
                "secondary syphilis",
                "tertiary syphilis",
                "latent syphilis",
                "syphilitic acoustic neuritis",
                "renal syphilis",
                "syphilitic disseminated chorioretinitis",
                "syphilitic optic atrophy",
                "secondary syphilitic iridocyclitis",
                "syphilitic interstitial keratitis",
                "syphilitic episcleritis",
                "Syphilis of breast",
                "congenital syphilis",
                "Syphilitic aortitis",
                "muscle syphilis",
                "congenital syphilitic osteochondritis",
                "early congenital syphilis",
                "late congenital syphilis",
                "Dennie–Marfan syndrome"
            ],
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            "markers": [],
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            "senseRank": null,
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                "dataset": "wikidata",
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            }
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                    "Claude"
                ],
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                "wave": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q41083",
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                "family": "Thing Registry",
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                    "ACT.ACT"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
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                "name": "syphilis",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain syphilis in general terms, relay testing, treatment and prevention guidance from health authorities, describe its public health and historical significance including ethical failures in research, and route personal symptoms or results to clinicians and sexual health services.",
                "definition": "A sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, progressing if untreated through primary, secondary, latent and tertiary stages that can affect the skin, mucous membranes, heart, nervous system and other organs, and transmissible from mother to child in pregnancy; it is diagnosed by blood tests and cured by antibiotics, usually penicillin.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a disease.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain stages and transmission in general terms",
                    "relay testing and treatment guidance from authorities",
                    "relay prevention and partner notification information",
                    "route personal questions to clinical services"
                ],
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                    "Caused by Treponema pallidum",
                    "Staged course with latency",
                    "Curable with penicillin",
                    "Congenital transmission preventable by antenatal screening"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not visible as an object; a painless sore in the primary stage, a rash in the secondary stage, and no signs in latency.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Painless chancre at the site of infection",
                    "Secondary rash often on palms and soles",
                    "Other treponematoses such as yaws are related but distinct infections"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "incubation to primary stage",
                        "typical_range": "about 10-90",
                        "unit": "days",
                        "note": "typically about three weeks"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "new infections",
                        "typical_range": "millions",
                        "unit": "per year worldwide",
                        "note": "WHO estimates"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "primary, secondary, latent and tertiary syphilis",
                    "neurosyphilis and ocular syphilis",
                    "cardiovascular syphilis",
                    "congenital syphilis",
                    "syphilis in pregnancy"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "sexually transmitted infection",
                        "why": "the category"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is caused by",
                        "target": "Treponema pallidum",
                        "why": "the bacterium"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is treated by",
                        "target": "penicillin",
                        "why": "first-line antibiotic"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is confused with",
                        "target": "yaws",
                        "why": "a related treponemal disease"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "ICD-10",
                        "value_or_pattern": "A50-A53",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "ICD-11",
                        "value_or_pattern": "1A60-1A62",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
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                    "WHO guidelines on treatment and antenatal screening",
                    "National sexually transmitted infection guidelines",
                    "Notifiable disease reporting",
                    "Research ethics rules adopted after historical abuses"
                ],
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                    "Untreated progression to neurological and cardiovascular disease",
                    "Congenital syphilis from missed antenatal screening",
                    "Stigma delaying testing",
                    "Agents giving personal medical advice"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
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            "structure": {
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                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What syphilis is.",
                        "rationale": "General information.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "course",
                                "name": "Course",
                                "description": "Stages and transmission.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "course-finding",
                                        "name": "Course",
                                        "description": "Course.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is syphilis transmitted, and what happens in each stage if untreated?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user describing their own symptoms, which need a clinician?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "recognise",
                                "name": "Recognise",
                                "description": "Signs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "recognise-finding",
                                        "name": "Recognise",
                                        "description": "Recognise.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What signs characterise each stage, and how is it distinguished from other conditions?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits another sexually transmitted infection?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "care",
                        "name": "Care",
                        "description": "Testing and treatment.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "testing",
                                "name": "Testing",
                                "description": "Testing.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "testing-finding",
                                        "name": "Testing",
                                        "description": "Testing.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who should be tested according to guidelines, and how is testing accessed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which services provide testing locally?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "treatment",
                                "name": "Treatment",
                                "description": "Treatment.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "treatment-finding",
                                        "name": "Treatment",
                                        "description": "Treatment.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What treatment do guidelines describe, and why is follow-up needed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation free of personal treatment advice?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "prevent",
                        "name": "Prevent",
                        "description": "Prevention and public health.",
                        "rationale": "Public health.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "prevention",
                                "name": "Prevention",
                                "description": "Prevention.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "prevention-finding",
                                        "name": "Prevention",
                                        "description": "Prevention.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What prevention and partner notification measures do authorities recommend?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits sexual health services?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "congenital",
                                "name": "Congenital",
                                "description": "Pregnancy and screening.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "congenital-finding",
                                        "name": "Congenital",
                                        "description": "Congenital.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is congenital syphilis prevented through antenatal screening?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits antenatal care?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History and ethics.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "History.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did syphilis spread and how was it treated before antibiotics, with debates about origin attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ethics",
                                "name": "Ethics",
                                "description": "Research ethics.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "ethics-finding",
                                        "name": "Ethics",
                                        "description": "Ethics.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What happened in the Tuskegee and Guatemala studies, and how did they change research ethics?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation accurate and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should congenital syphilis be a separate entry?",
                "How should national guidelines be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases for specific complications; 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": "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 syphilis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain syphilis in general terms, relay testing, treatment and prevention guidance from health authorities, describe its public health and historical significance including ethical failures in research, and route personal symptoms or results to clinicians and sexual health services.",
            "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: syphilitic aortic aneurysm, neurosyphilis, secondary syphilitic hepatitis, bursa syphilis, syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis, syphilitic meningitis, asymptomatic neurosyphilis, syphilitic peritonitis, syphilitic pericarditis, congenital syphilitic encephalitis, meningovascular neurosyphilis, tertiary syphilitic meningitis.",
                "37 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 124 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 syphilis, 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": [
                        "syphilitic aortic aneurysm",
                        "neurosyphilis",
                        "secondary syphilitic hepatitis",
                        "bursa syphilis",
                        "syphilitic retrobulbar neuritis",
                        "syphilitic meningitis",
                        "asymptomatic neurosyphilis",
                        "syphilitic peritonitis",
                        "syphilitic pericarditis",
                        "congenital syphilitic encephalitis",
                        "meningovascular neurosyphilis",
                        "tertiary syphilitic meningitis"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 124 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 37 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 syphilis from another, and a syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a syphilis 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis 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 syphilis?",
                                                "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 syphilis?",
                                                "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 syphilis 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 syphilis and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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 syphilis is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a syphilis, 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 syphilis, 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 syphilis 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
            }
        }
    }
}