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    "model": {
        "rank": 2148,
        "code": "thing-q45393",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.sea-piracy",
        "name": "sea piracy",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain sea piracy as a crime and phenomenon, relay its legal definition, history and regional patterns from international law, maritime security and historical sources with attribution, describe counter-piracy responses at a general level, and decline any guidance on committing piracy or evading enforcement, routing those in danger to maritime rescue and reporting centres.",
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        "domain": "ACT.ACT",
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        "version": "",
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        "tier": 2,
        "score": 114,
        "payload": {
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            "aliases": [
                "Piracy in Scotland",
                "Petrol Piracy",
                "Piracy in India",
                "piracy in Portugal",
                "Piracy in the Persian Gulf",
                "piracy off the coast of Somalia",
                "piracy in the Caribbean",
                "Ancient Mediterranean piracy",
                "piracy in the 21st century",
                "piracy in the Sulu and Celebes Seas",
                "Baltic Slavic piracy",
                "Piracy in the Strait of Malacca",
                "Albanian piracy",
                "Piracy in Indonesia",
                "Piracy in the British Virgin Islands"
            ],
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            "merged": 15,
            "knownIn": 114,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q45393",
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                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
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            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T13:41:43Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 4,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q45393",
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                "name": "sea piracy",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.4",
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                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "ACT.ACT"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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                "name": "sea piracy",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain sea piracy as a crime and phenomenon, relay its legal definition, history and regional patterns from international law, maritime security and historical sources with attribution, describe counter-piracy responses at a general level, and decline any guidance on committing piracy or evading enforcement, routing those in danger to maritime rescue and reporting centres.",
                "definition": "Robbery, hijacking or violence against ships and their crews at sea, defined in international law by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, with a history from ancient Mediterranean and Scottish piracy through the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean to modern piracy off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Guinea and Southeast Asia, including fuel theft known as petrol piracy; piracy is a crime of universal jurisdiction and is countered by naval patrols, shipping industry measures and prosecution, described here at the level of public reference sources.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a crime and historical phenomenon.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain definition and history",
                    "relay regional patterns",
                    "describe counter-piracy responses",
                    "decline operational content"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Crime at sea",
                    "Universal jurisdiction",
                    "Regional hotspots",
                    "Historical and modern"
                ],
                "appearance": "Not a visible object; attacks on vessels at sea.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Robbery and violence against ships at sea",
                    "Piracy off Somalia, in the Persian Gulf, India, Portugal, Scotland; petrol piracy",
                    "Armed robbery in port is a related crime under national law; privateering was state-licensed; copyright piracy is unrelated"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "UNCLOS definition",
                        "typical_range": "article 101",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Somali piracy peak",
                        "typical_range": "2011, over 230 attacks",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "IMB"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "recent global incidents",
                        "typical_range": "about 100-130",
                        "unit": "per year",
                        "note": "IMB reports 2020s"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Gulf of Guinea",
                        "typical_range": "main kidnapping hotspot in the 2020s",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "historical piracy in the Mediterranean, Scotland, Portugal and the Caribbean",
                    "Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean piracy",
                    "modern piracy off Somalia",
                    "Gulf of Guinea piracy and kidnapping",
                    "Southeast Asian piracy and petrol piracy",
                    "armed robbery against ships in territorial waters"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "hijacking",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is defined by",
                        "target": "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea",
                        "why": "article 101"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is countered by",
                        "target": "naval operation",
                        "why": "such as EU NAVFOR Atalanta"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "privateering",
                        "why": "state-licensed raiding"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "UNCLOS and the SUA Convention",
                    "IMO guidance and Best Management Practices for shipping",
                    "National piracy laws and universal jurisdiction"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Agents providing operational guidance",
                    "Romanticising piracy",
                    "Registry aliases naming regions and a fuel theft variant"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What sea piracy is.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is sea piracy under international law, and how does it differ from armed robbery in port, privateering and copyright piracy?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about law, history and security, or about committing or evading, which the model refuses?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "regions",
                                "name": "Regions",
                                "description": "Regional patterns.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "regions-finding",
                                        "name": "Regions",
                                        "description": "Regions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the patterns of piracy off Somalia, in the Gulf of Guinea, Southeast Asia and historically in the Persian Gulf, India, Portugal and Scotland?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific region?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "response",
                        "name": "Response",
                        "description": "Counter-piracy.",
                        "rationale": "Regulation.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naval",
                                "name": "Naval",
                                "description": "Naval and legal responses.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "naval-finding",
                                        "name": "Naval",
                                        "description": "Naval.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do naval operations, prosecutions and regional agreements counter piracy, at public reference level?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "shipping",
                                "name": "Shipping",
                                "description": "Shipping measures.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "shipping-finding",
                                        "name": "Shipping",
                                        "description": "Shipping.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do Best Management Practices and reporting centres do, and how do crews in danger get help?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user in danger at sea and in need of rescue and reporting routes?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "classical",
                                "name": "Classical",
                                "description": "Ancient and early modern.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "classical-finding",
                                        "name": "Classical",
                                        "description": "Classical.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did piracy operate in the ancient Mediterranean, Scotland, Portugal and the golden age, as historians describe?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "modern",
                                "name": "Modern",
                                "description": "Modern resurgence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "modern-finding",
                                        "name": "Modern",
                                        "description": "Modern.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Why did Somali piracy rise and fall, and what drives piracy today, with causes attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits piracy off the coast of Somalia?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Economics and culture.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "economics",
                                "name": "Economics",
                                "description": "Costs.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "economics-finding",
                                        "name": "Economics",
                                        "description": "Economics.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the economic costs of piracy to shipping and coastal states, as studies estimate?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits maritime security?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "culture",
                                "name": "Culture",
                                "description": "Culture.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "culture-finding",
                                        "name": "Culture",
                                        "description": "Culture.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is piracy depicted in literature and film, and how does that differ from reality?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits pirates in popular culture?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should piracy off Somalia and Gulf of Guinea piracy be separate primary entries?",
                "How should international law and maritime security sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming regional histories and petrol piracy; 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 sea piracy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain sea piracy as a crime and phenomenon, relay its legal definition, history and regional patterns from international law, maritime security and historical sources with attribution, describe counter-piracy responses at a general level, and decline any guidance on committing piracy or evading enforcement, routing those in danger to maritime rescue and reporting centres.",
            "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: Piracy in Scotland, Petrol Piracy, Piracy in India, piracy in Portugal, Piracy in the Persian Gulf, piracy off the coast of Somalia, piracy in the Caribbean, Ancient Mediterranean piracy, piracy in the 21st century, piracy in the Sulu and Celebes Seas, Baltic Slavic piracy, Piracy in the Strait of Malacca.",
                "15 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 114 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 sea piracy, 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": [
                        "Piracy in Scotland",
                        "Petrol Piracy",
                        "Piracy in India",
                        "piracy in Portugal",
                        "Piracy in the Persian Gulf",
                        "piracy off the coast of Somalia",
                        "piracy in the Caribbean",
                        "Ancient Mediterranean piracy",
                        "piracy in the 21st century",
                        "piracy in the Sulu and Celebes Seas",
                        "Baltic Slavic piracy",
                        "Piracy in the Strait of Malacca"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 114 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 15 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 sea piracy from another, and a sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a sea piracy 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy?",
                                                "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 sea piracy?",
                                                "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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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 sea piracy is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sea piracy, 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 sea piracy, 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 sea piracy 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
            }
        }
    }
}