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                                                "text": "Which groups exist in this assembly, with what size and leadership, according to official sources?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the information current?",
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                                                "text": "How are political groups formed and organised in the European Parliament?",
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits a specific European group?",
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                                                "text": "Which entry fits legislative procedure?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation neutral?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
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                                                "text": "Which misconceptions arise?",
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                "How should membership changes be tracked?"
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            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain parliamentary groups and their functions and rules, identify groups in specific assemblies with sources, describe how groups shape legislative work, and support civic understanding.",
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: parliamentary grouping, political group of the European Parliament, parliamentary grouping of the Parliament of Catalonia, political group of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Bundestag parliamentary group, Law and Justice Parliamentary Group, Municipal Group, Minzoku-ha, independents club, Parliamentary group in the Bulgarian national assembly, Parliamentary Group in the Mozambican Assembly of the Republic, Folketing parliamentary group.",
                "52 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 43 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 parliamentary group, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
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                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
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            "howItIsRecognised": [
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                        "description": "How an agent tells one parliamentary group from another, and a parliamentary group from things that resemble it.",
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                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
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                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
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                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
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                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
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                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a parliamentary group and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a parliamentary group, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group 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 parliamentary group and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a parliamentary group sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a parliamentary group, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a parliamentary group, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What parliamentary group is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does parliamentary group take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of parliamentary group, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in parliamentary group and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of parliamentary group may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does parliamentary group have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a parliamentary group 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 parliamentary group and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group 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 parliamentary group is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group, 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 parliamentary group is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}