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Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "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": [ "Armenians in Saint Petersburg", "Armenian Americans", "Armenian Catholics of Javakheti", "Armenians in Canada", "Armenians in California", "Armenians in New York City", "Armenians in Los Angeles", "Armenians in Boston", "Armenians in Chicago", "Armenians in San Francisco", "Armenians in Washington, D.C.", "Armenians in Providence" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 117 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 174 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 Armenians from another, and a Armenians from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. 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