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[ { "text": "What defines country music in instrumentation, vocal style and lyrics?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific instrument?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "subgenres", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "findings": [ { "id": "subgenres-finding", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do honky-tonk, bluegrass, outlaw, country pop and alternative country differ?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific subgenre?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "listen", "name": "Listen", "description": "Artists and listening.", "rationale": "Practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "artists", "name": "Artists", "description": "Artists and recordings.", "findings": [ { "id": "artists-finding", "name": "Artists", "description": "Artists.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which artists and recordings are central to a period or subgenre, according to critics and historians?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific artist?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recommend", "name": "Recommend", "description": "Recommendations.", "findings": [ { "id": "recommend-finding", "name": "Recommend", "description": "Recommendations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What country music might suit this taste or occasion?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which entry fits music recommendation?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture and industry.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "industry", "name": "Industry", "description": "Industry.", "findings": [ { "id": "industry-finding", "name": "Industry", "description": "Industry.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the country music industry organised, from Nashville to radio, charts and awards?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the music industry?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "society", "name": "Society", "description": 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a country music 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 country music, 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 country music, 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 country music 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 country music 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 country music, 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 country 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