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                "Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan",
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                "Oriental Orthodoxy in Israel",
                "Oriental Orthodoxy in Egypt",
                "Oriental Orthodoxy in Italy",
                "Oriental Orthodoxy in Norway",
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                    "Miaphysite Christology, rejecting Chalcedon",
                    "Ancient liturgical languages and traditions",
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                    "Member churches: Coptic, Armenian, Syriac, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Malankara",
                    "Accept three councils and hold miaphysite Christology",
                    "Eastern Orthodox churches accept seven councils and are a separate family"
                ],
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                    "Armenian Apostolic Church",
                    "Syriac Orthodox Church",
                    "Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo churches",
                    "Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church",
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                        "relation": "is distinguished from",
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                        "relation": "is protected by",
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                    "National law on religious organisations",
                    "Heritage protection for churches and manuscripts"
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                    "Persecution and attacks on communities in some countries",
                    "Misdescribing the Christology as monophysite, a term the churches reject",
                    "Confusing them with Eastern Orthodox churches",
                    "Partisan descriptions"
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                "out_of_scope": [],
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                                        "id": "members-finding",
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                                                "text": "Which churches belong to the family, and how is their communion expressed?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about this family or about Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic churches?",
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                                                "text": "What do the churches teach about Christ, in their own terms, and how do scholars describe the division of 451?",
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                                                "text": "Is the terminology the one the churches use?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
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                        "id": "life",
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                                        "name": "Worship",
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                                                "text": "What are the liturgies, languages, fasts and feasts of each tradition?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits a specific church?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
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                                "id": "community",
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                                "description": "Communities.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources give adherent figures?",
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                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
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                                                "text": "What agreements and dialogues exist with Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits freedom of religion?",
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                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
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                                                "kind": "boundary"
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                "How should the churches own sources and scholarship be cited together?",
                "The registry entry has merged country-level aliases; should they be split off?"
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                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
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            "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.",
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            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Oriental Orthodox churches, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe the Oriental Orthodox churches neutrally with attribution to their own teaching and to scholarship, distinguish them from Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches, relay information on communities, rights and persecution from reliable bodies, and avoid polemic.",
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                "observed and measured"
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Oriental Orthodoxy in Iraq, Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan, Oriental Orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia, Oriental Orthodoxy in Germany, Oriental Orthodoxy in Guatemala, Oriental Orthodoxy in Israel, Oriental Orthodoxy in Egypt, Oriental Orthodoxy in Italy, Oriental Orthodoxy in Norway, Oriental Orthodoxy in India, Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland, Oriental Orthodoxy in North America.",
                "12 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 72 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 Oriental Orthodox churches, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
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            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Acts through people, and only through them.",
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            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
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            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body."
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                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Uzbekistan",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Saudi Arabia",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Germany",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Guatemala",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Israel",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Egypt",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Italy",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in Norway",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in India",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland",
                        "Oriental Orthodoxy in North America"
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Oriental Orthodox churches, 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 Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Oriental Orthodox churches, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Oriental Orthodox churches, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Oriental Orthodox churches, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
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                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
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                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Oriental Orthodox churches, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                                    "preconditions",
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Oriental Orthodox churches, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "values with units",
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Oriental Orthodox churches, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                                    "refusals",
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                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a Oriental Orthodox churches and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a Oriental Orthodox churches, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Oriental Orthodox churches, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Oriental Orthodox churches, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a Oriental Orthodox churches and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a Oriental Orthodox churches sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Oriental Orthodox churches, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Oriental Orthodox churches, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Oriental Orthodox churches is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What Oriental Orthodox churches is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does Oriental Orthodox churches take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of Oriental Orthodox churches, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in Oriental Orthodox churches and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of Oriental Orthodox churches may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Oriental Orthodox churches have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Oriental Orthodox churches 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 Oriental Orthodox churches and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Oriental Orthodox churches, 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 Oriental Orthodox churches, 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 Oriental Orthodox churches 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 Oriental Orthodox churches is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Oriental Orthodox churches, 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 Oriental Orthodox churches, 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 Oriental Orthodox churches 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
            }
        }
    }
}