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    "model": {
        "rank": 3970,
        "code": "thing-q56061",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity",
        "name": "administrative territorial entity",
        "purpose": "Let an agent handle administrative units by level, code, boundaries, authority and changes over time, as the parent of specific units.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Physical world and living systems",
        "status": "research-draft",
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        "plane": "PHY",
        "domain": "PHY.PLC",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/q56061/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 79,
        "payload": {
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            "merged": 0,
            "knownIn": 79,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
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                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q56061",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56061",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T06:37:34Z",
                "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": 1,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q56061",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity",
                "name": "administrative territorial entity",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "PHY.PLC"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q56061/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.administrative-territorial-entity",
                "name": "administrative territorial entity",
                "purpose": "Let an agent handle administrative units by level, code, boundaries, authority and changes over time, as the parent of specific units.",
                "definition": "A territorial division of a state established for administration, such as a region, province, county, district or municipality, with defined boundaries and often its own authorities.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Organising government, services and statistics by territory.",
                "affordances": [
                    "look up codes and boundaries",
                    "find the responsible authority",
                    "track changes and mergers",
                    "use for statistics"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Territorial division for administration",
                    "Hierarchical levels",
                    "Boundaries and names change",
                    "Not always the same as electoral units"
                ],
                "appearance": "Boundaries on maps; offices of local and regional government.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Official names and codes",
                    "Hierarchies of levels",
                    "Specific units are separate entries"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "regions and states",
                    "provinces and counties",
                    "districts",
                    "municipalities",
                    "special administrative areas"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "has kind",
                        "target": "municipality and state",
                        "why": "levels"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is part of",
                        "target": "state",
                        "why": "hierarchy"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is confused with",
                        "target": "electoral unit",
                        "why": "different purpose"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is governed by",
                        "target": "government",
                        "why": "authority"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "ISO 3166-2 code",
                        "value_or_pattern": "country-subdivision code",
                        "note": "subdivisions"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "NUTS code",
                        "value_or_pattern": "EU statistical regions",
                        "note": "statistics"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "National administrative law",
                    "ISO 3166-2",
                    "EU NUTS regulation"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Outdated boundaries",
                    "Confusing levels",
                    "Disputed territories"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity",
                        "name": "Identity",
                        "description": "Which unit.",
                        "rationale": "Codes identify units.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "code",
                                "name": "Code and name",
                                "description": "Official.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "code-finding",
                                        "name": "Identity",
                                        "description": "Name and code.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the unit official name and code?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "At which level?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "hierarchy",
                                "name": "Hierarchy",
                                "description": "Parent and children.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "hierarchy-finding",
                                        "name": "Hierarchy",
                                        "description": "Hierarchy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which unit contains it, and which does it contain?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How many levels?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "authority",
                        "name": "Authority",
                        "description": "Who governs.",
                        "rationale": "Authority decides services.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "government",
                                "name": "Government",
                                "description": "Authority.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "government-finding",
                                        "name": "Authority",
                                        "description": "Governing body.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which authority governs it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What powers does it have?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "services",
                                "name": "Services",
                                "description": "Provision.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "services-finding",
                                        "name": "Services",
                                        "description": "Services.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which services are provided at this level?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are they accessed?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "change",
                        "name": "Change",
                        "description": "Boundaries over time.",
                        "rationale": "Units change.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "Changes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "Boundary history.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How have boundaries and names changed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "When?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "versioning",
                                "name": "Versioning",
                                "description": "Data versions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "versioning-finding",
                                        "name": "Versioning",
                                        "description": "Data version.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which version of boundaries is used in this data?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it current?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "sensitivity",
                        "name": "Sensitivity",
                        "description": "Disputes.",
                        "rationale": "Some units are disputed.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "disputes",
                                "name": "Disputes",
                                "description": "Territorial disputes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "disputes-finding",
                                        "name": "Disputes",
                                        "description": "Disputes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is this unit or its boundary disputed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How should that be noted?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "names",
                                "name": "Names",
                                "description": "Alternative names.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "names-finding",
                                        "name": "Names",
                                        "description": "Names.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which alternative names exist?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which are official?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "How should administrative levels be organised?",
                "How should changes be versioned?",
                "How should disputed territories be shown neutrally?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "place or geographic feature",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a administrative territorial entity, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle administrative units by level, code, boundaries, authority and changes over time, as the parent of specific units.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "place",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "fixed",
                "scale": "geographic"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured",
                "entered, crossed or travelled along"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a administrative territorial entity, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a portion of the world with an extent",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.",
                "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.",
                "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",
                "enter it, cross it, travel along it"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [],
            "standing": "Described in 79 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one administrative territorial entity from another, and a administrative territorial entity from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a administrative territorial entity sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a administrative territorial entity from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a administrative territorial entity is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at geographic scale.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and materials",
                                        "description": "What a administrative territorial entity is built from and which parts are replaceable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a administrative territorial entity is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a administrative territorial entity is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).",
                        "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "location-and-placement",
                                "name": "Location and placement",
                                "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "position-and-frame",
                                        "name": "Position, container and reference frame",
                                        "description": "Where a administrative territorial entity is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "movement-and-transfer",
                                "name": "Movement and transfer",
                                "description": "How a administrative territorial entity is carried, installed or relocated.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "movement-events",
                                        "name": "Movement events and constraints",
                                        "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "movement-events-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a administrative territorial entity 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 administrative territorial entity passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a administrative territorial entity between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a administrative territorial entity, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a administrative territorial entity is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "use-and-operation",
                        "name": "Use and operation",
                        "description": "What can be done with a administrative territorial entity and what it takes to do it.",
                        "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "intended-use",
                                "name": "Intended use and function",
                                "description": "What a administrative territorial entity is for, and what it is used for anyway.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "function-and-purpose",
                                        "name": "Function, purpose and misuse",
                                        "description": "The function a administrative territorial entity performs and the uses that fall outside it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "handling-and-procedure",
                                "name": "Handling and procedure",
                                "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a administrative territorial entity.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "procedures-and-skills",
                                        "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools",
                                        "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a administrative territorial entity at all.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes handling a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "extent-and-geometry",
                        "name": "Extent, geometry and naming",
                        "description": "Where administrative territorial entity is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.",
                        "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "geometry",
                                "name": "Geometry and reference system",
                                "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "geometry-record",
                                        "name": "Geometry, precision and frame",
                                        "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "geometry-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What geometry describes administrative territorial entity, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "geometry-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "names",
                                "name": "Names and endonyms",
                                "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "naming-record",
                                        "name": "Names and who uses them",
                                        "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "naming-record-q01",
                                                "text": "By what names is administrative territorial entity known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "naming-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "containment-and-access",
                        "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access",
                        "description": "What administrative territorial entity sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.",
                        "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "containment",
                                "name": "Administrative containment",
                                "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "containment-record",
                                        "name": "Containing units and effective dates",
                                        "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "containment-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which administrative units contain administrative territorial entity, and since when does each containment hold?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "containment-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access",
                                "name": "Access and permitted use",
                                "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and their source",
                                        "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "Who may enter or use administrative territorial entity, under what conditions, and by whose rule?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a administrative territorial entity came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a administrative territorial entity and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a administrative territorial entity is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a administrative territorial entity, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a administrative territorial entity, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a administrative territorial entity is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 8,
                "layers": 17,
                "findings": 19,
                "questions": 53
            }
        }
    }
}