{ "model": { "rank": 583, "code": "thing-q7569", "model_id": "vr.tr.child", "name": "child", "purpose": "Let an agent recognise that it is dealing with a child and apply the protections and restrictions that follow, without ever inferring age from appearance.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q7569/", "tier": 2, "score": 234, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "healthy child", "privileged youth", "Mexican American children", "glass child", "Indigenous Australian children", "unregistered children", "gaki-daishō", "infants and toddlers", "gifted child", "pre-primary school child", "kumāra", "abducted child", "children younger than 6 years", "lost child", "children younger than 12 years", "circus child", "Māori child", "sick child", "Sending of Children to the People's Republics by the DAG", "Mürsik", "non-binary child", "Transgender children", "bisexual child", "children younger than 13 years", "tween", "children younger than 15 years", "toddler", "abandoned child", "nominal child", "Jewish child", "vulnerable child", "LGBTQ+ children", "glass children", "Holy children", "latchkey kid", "reincarnated soul boy", "child singer", "Retortenbaby", "Child of Divorce", "motril (pastor)" ], "aliasCount": 102, "merged": 102, "knownIn": 234, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.child-3", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q7569", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7569", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-10T20:09:57Z", "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-Q7569", "registryId": "vr.tr.child", "name": "child", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q7569/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.child", "name": "child", "purpose": "Let an agent recognise that it is dealing with a child and apply the protections and restrictions that follow, without ever inferring age from appearance.", "definition": "A human being below the age at which a jurisdiction treats a person as an adult, which is a legal line drawn at a chosen age and not a description of the person.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable. A child is a person, and the model exists so that systems handle people below the age line with the care the law requires.", "affordances": [ "almost nothing without the involvement of someone with parental responsibility", "collect and process data about one only under stricter rules than for an adult", "provide services to one, with duties attached that do not apply to adults", "harm one through carelessness that would be harmless to an adult" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Defined by an age line in a jurisdiction, so the same person is a child in one context and not in another", "The line differs by purpose: criminal responsibility, consent, work, marriage and data protection all use different ages in the same jurisdiction", "A child is a person with reduced capacity in law, not a different kind of thing", "Parental responsibility is a separate relation and does not always sit with the biological parent" ], "appearance": "Highly variable and not a guide to anything the model needs. Two people of the same age can differ by a decade in apparent age, in both directions.", "visual_identification": [ "Age must never be inferred from appearance for any decision that matters, and doing so is the single most common failure here", "Age is established by a document or by a person with parental responsibility, or it is not established", "Where age cannot be established, systems should behave as if the person is a child, not the reverse" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "by legal purpose: below the age of criminal responsibility, of consent, of majority, of digital consent", "by care status: living with family, looked after, in care, unaccompanied", "by stage: infant, young child, adolescent, which are developmental rather than legal categories" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "person", "why": "everything true of persons is true here, with additions rather than exceptions" }, { "relation": "requires", "target": "parental responsibility holder", "why": "consent, decisions and most transactions run through them" }, { "relation": "regulated by", "target": "child protection regime", "why": "duties that override ordinary rules including confidentiality" }, { "relation": "is confused with", "target": "minor", "why": "the words overlap but the ages behind them differ by purpose" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "date of birth", "value_or_pattern": "date", "note": "the only fact that settles age, and it needs a source" }, { "scheme": "identity document", "value_or_pattern": "jurisdiction-specific", "note": "the usual evidence, and often absent" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which frames most national law on the subject", "National child protection statutes, which impose duties on organisations and individuals", "Data protection rules for children, which set a separate age of digital consent and stricter conditions", "Age verification requirements for particular goods and services" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Inferring age from appearance, which produces both wrongly-refused adults and unprotected children", "Treating consent from a child as valid where it is not", "Sharing information under ordinary confidentiality rules where a protection duty overrides them", "Applying an age line from the wrong jurisdiction or the wrong purpose" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "age-and-status", "name": "Age, status and the lines that apply", "description": "How old, established how, and which line matters here.", "rationale": "Everything downstream depends on age being established rather than assumed, and on knowing which of several age lines the current decision uses.", "layers": [ { "id": "establishing-age", "name": "Establishing age", "description": "What settles it and what does not.", "findings": [ { "id": "establishing-age-finding", "name": "Evidence of age", "description": "The source of the age claim and its reliability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes this person age, and how reliable is it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What must a system do when age cannot be established?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "applicable-line", "name": "Applicable age line", "description": "Which threshold governs this decision.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-line-finding", "name": "The line in force", "description": "Which age threshold applies to the matter at hand.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which age threshold applies to this decision, under which rule and jurisdiction?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What changes at that threshold, and what does not change with it?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "responsibility-and-consent", "name": "Responsibility and consent", "description": "Who decides for this person.", "rationale": "A child capacity to consent is limited and shared, and acting on consent that is not valid is the commonest legal failure in services for children.", "layers": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Parental responsibility", "description": "Who holds it and how that is evidenced.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility-finding", "name": "Holder of responsibility", "description": "Who may make decisions and on what evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who holds parental responsibility for this child, and how is that evidenced?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "What must an agent do when responsibility is shared or disputed?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity", "name": "Capacity and voice", "description": "What the child may decide, and the weight of their view.", "findings": [ { "id": "capacity-finding", "name": "Capacity to decide", "description": "Where the child own decision counts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which decisions may this child make for themselves, under which rule?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "How must their view be recorded and weighted where it does not decide?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-and-duty", "name": "Protection and duty of care", "description": "What must be done to keep them safe.", "rationale": "Protection duties override ordinary rules including confidentiality, and an agent that does not know that will do the wrong thing politely.", "layers": [ { "id": "duties", "name": "Duties owed", "description": "What the organisation and the individual owe.", "findings": [ { "id": "duties-finding", "name": "Applicable duties", "description": "Which protection duties attach here.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which protection duties apply in this setting, and to whom?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which duty overrides confidentiality, and at what threshold?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "concerns", "name": "Concerns and escalation", "description": "What to do when something is wrong.", "findings": [ { "id": "concerns-finding", "name": "Escalation path", "description": "The route a concern must take and how fast.", "questions": [ { "text": "What must be done when a protection concern arises, by whom and within what time?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "What must be recorded, and what must not be shared with whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "data-and-services", "name": "Data and services", "description": "What may be collected and offered.", "rationale": "Children data is processed under stricter conditions, and services aimed at them carry design duties that adult services do not.", "layers": [ { "id": "data", "name": "Data protection", "description": "What may be collected, on what basis, for how long.", "findings": [ { "id": "data-finding", "name": "Lawful basis and limits", "description": "The stricter conditions that apply to a child data.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what basis may this child data be processed, and what extra conditions apply?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What must be deleted, and when?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-design", "name": "Service design duties", "description": "What a service must do because children use it.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-design-finding", "name": "Design obligations", "description": "Duties that follow from children being users.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which design and safety duties apply because children use this service?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "What features must be off by default, and under whose rule?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "How should a model represent age when several different age lines apply to the same person at once?", "What should a system do when age is unknown and cannot be established, given that both defaults cause harm in different directions?", "How should parental responsibility be represented when it is shared, disputed or held by an institution?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 child, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent recognise that it is dealing with a child and apply the protections and restrictions that follow, without ever inferring age from appearance.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: healthy child, privileged youth, Mexican American children, glass child, Indigenous Australian children, unregistered children, gaki-daishō, infants and toddlers, gifted child, pre-primary school child, kumāra, abducted child.", "102 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 234 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 child, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "healthy child", "privileged youth", "Mexican American children", "glass child", "Indigenous Australian children", "unregistered children", "gaki-daishō", "infants and toddlers", "gifted child", "pre-primary school child", "kumāra", "abducted child" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 234 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 102 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one child from another, and a child 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 child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child 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 child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 child is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child moves on its own.", "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 child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child 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 child between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a child 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 child, 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 child, 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 child is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a child.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a child and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a child, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a child sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and 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practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does child require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses child, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What child actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define child, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as child, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a child 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 child and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a child, 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 child, 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 child 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 child is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a child, 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 child, 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 child is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }