{ "model": { "rank": 6039, "code": "thing-q917695", "model_id": "vr.tr.sentinelese-people", "name": "Sentinelese people", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise the Sentinelese as a distinct Indigenous people, assess evidence about their collective continuity and external pressures, and constrain actions around their autonomy and protection.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q917695/", "tier": 2, "score": 63, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 63, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q917695", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q917695", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:07:34Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00361726, "turns": 1, "seconds": 50.1, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 77.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b8a-2f35-7a51-b130-607ef5db04dd\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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See [Sentinelese overview](https://survivalinternational.org/peoples/sentinelese).", "Evidence about another Andaman people must not establish Sentinelese customs, language, ancestry or institutions by geographical proximity alone.", "Descriptions of being uncontacted must distinguish absence of sustained relations from absence of historical encounters; documented encounters do not establish continuing consent. See [government commission report](https://tribal.nic.in/downloads/Statistics/OtherReport/BhuriaReportFinal.pdf).", "Recognition must use attributable collective and territorial evidence, never appearance, presumed technological stage or stereotypes about hostility." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Collective designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "External name; verified self-designation if available; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the registry label from being mistaken for a demonstrated self-name." }, { "name": "Territorial relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "People to island, forest, shore and subsistence waters; evidence date and spatial sensitivity", "why_it_matters": "Connects collective continuity to habitat without publishing actionable settlement locations." }, { "name": "Population evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons observed or estimated range; date, method, coverage and uncertainty; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates partial sightings from a census and prevents unsupported population trends." }, { "name": "Contact situation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated encounter reported; sustained relationship evidenced; encounter rejected; current situation unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a historical exchange from becoming a standing permission for contact." }, { "name": "Knowledge of language and institutions", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Directly documented; attributed interpretation; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Blocks invention of language affiliation, leadership or collective decision procedures." }, { "name": "External pressure", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Intrusion; resource extraction; pollution; habitat disturbance; contact exposure; unverified report", "why_it_matters": "Supports protection decisions without requiring intrusive investigation." }, { "name": "Applicable protection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "People or territory to verified legal instrument and responsible authority, with effective date", "why_it_matters": "Makes action restrictions traceable while distinguishing governmental authority from community consent." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve references to the Sentinelese while flagging conflation with neighbouring peoples.", "Compare dated population or condition reports while preserving incompatible methods and uncertainty.", "Assess reported threats using existing lawful evidence and disclose only necessary spatial detail.", "Evaluate proposed research, travel, communication or assistance against verified restrictions and contact risks.", "Prepare an evidence-qualified referral about an intrusion for an appropriate protection authority.", "Mark questions as unresolved when answering them would require intrusive or unauthorised access." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wiki-sentinelese", "title": "Sentinelese", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese", "what_it_supports": "Identity, island location, isolation, contact history, and common name variants.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "goi-andaman", "title": "Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration / Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Regulation practice", "url": "https://www.andaman.gov.in/", "what_it_supports": "Indian legal protection, restricted-area status, and official policy of non-interference.", "url_status": "unverified" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sentinelese-collective-identity", "name": "Sentinelese collective identity", "description": "Establish the people referred to without manufacturing internal categories.", "rationale": "A territorial name and outsider accounts are insufficient grounds for inferring membership, self-designation or kinship.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-referents", "name": "Names and referents", "description": "Separate registry naming from demonstrated community identification.", "findings": [ { "id": "designation-basis", "name": "Designation basis", "description": "Record whose terminology identifies the Sentinelese and what it denotes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources explicitly identify their subject as the people of North Sentinel Island?", "kind": "definition", "id": "designation-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Is any reported self-designation supported by intelligible, attributable evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "designation-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "neighbouring-peoples-boundary", "name": "Boundary with neighbouring peoples", "description": "Prevent imported claims from becoming Sentinelese attributes.", "findings": [ { "id": "collective-distinctness", "name": "Collective distinctness", "description": "Require Sentinelese-specific support for linguistic and social claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this claim concern Sentinelese people specifically or an aggregate Andaman category?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "collective-distinctness-q01" }, { "text": "What supports any asserted relationship with Onge, Jarawa or Great Andamanese peoples?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "collective-distinctness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territory-and-subsistence-continuity", "name": "Territory and subsistence continuity", "description": "Represent the collective relationship with island habitats and surrounding waters.", "rationale": "Damage to access or resources can affect the people even without direct interpersonal contact.", "layers": [ { "id": "inhabited-and-used-environments", "name": "Inhabited and used environments", "description": "Distinguish supported territorial relationships from speculative maps.", "findings": [ { "id": "territorial-evidence", "name": "Territorial evidence", "description": "Record the basis and safe resolution of claims about land and water use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What existing evidence supports relationships with forest, shore and nearby marine environments?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "territorial-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which location details must be generalised to avoid facilitating approaches or intrusion?", "kind": "action", "id": "territorial-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "resource-access-and-disturbance", "name": "Resource access and disturbance", "description": "Link environmental changes to plausible effects on subsistence without inventing dependence estimates.", "findings": [ { "id": "subsistence-pressure", "name": "Subsistence pressure", "description": "Separate observed extraction or habitat disturbance from inferred community consequences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence documents outside extraction, pollution or habitat damage affecting relevant environments?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "subsistence-pressure-q01" }, { "text": "Which effects on Sentinelese resource access are established, plausible or unknown?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "subsistence-pressure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "knowledge-under-limited-contact", "name": "Knowledge under limited contact", "description": "Control what distant observations and encounter accounts can justify.", "rationale": "Sparse observations can easily become false precision about population, language or social organisation.", "layers": [ { "id": "demographic-observation", "name": "Demographic observation", "description": "Preserve the distinction between visible persons and population estimates.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-inference-limits", "name": "Population inference limits", "description": "Require a method and observation scope for every demographic quantity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does a reported number represent a sighting, administrative estimate or population inference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-inference-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Are observations sufficiently comparable to support any claim of population change?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-inference-limits-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-source-lineage", "name": "Interpretation and source lineage", "description": "Track how accounts become claims about communication and collective life.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-versus-attribution", "name": "Observation versus attribution", "description": "Separate witnessed behaviour, translation claims and outsider interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can each claim about language, leadership or custom be traced to an original observation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observation-versus-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which interpretations depend on unverified translation or analogy with another people?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observation-versus-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-and-collective-continuity", "name": "Contact and collective continuity", "description": "Assess encounters and disruptions without converting limited observations into diagnoses.", "rationale": "Contact itself can create harm, so uncertainty about wellbeing cannot automatically justify an approach.", "layers": [ { "id": "encounters-and-expressed-boundaries", "name": "Encounters and expressed boundaries", "description": "Interpret reported encounters within their specific time and circumstances.", "findings": [ { "id": "encounter-specific-response", "name": "Encounter-specific response", "description": "Record observed responses without assigning permanent traits or continuing consent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What behaviour was observed in this encounter, by whom and under what approach conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "encounter-specific-response-q01" }, { "text": "Does a proposed action improperly treat past gift acceptance or non-resistance as present permission?", "kind": "action", "id": "encounter-specific-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-disaster-uncertainty", "name": "Health and disaster uncertainty", "description": "Distinguish evidence of disruption from absence of visibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-indicators", "name": "Continuity indicators", "description": "Assess dated evidence of survival or disruption without assuming disease status or immunity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What existing evidence supports a concern about injury, illness or disaster effects, and how recent is it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuity-indicators-q01" }, { "text": "Could the proposed verification or assistance introduce greater contact risk than the evidence warrants?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-indicators-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "autonomy-and-permitted-actions", "name": "Autonomy and permitted actions", "description": "Determine whether an agent may support a proposed action involving the people or their territory.", "rationale": "Legal access, ethical justification and community consent are separate requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "protection-and-authority", "name": "Protection and authority", "description": "Attach proposed actions to verified rules and competent authorities.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-action-restrictions", "name": "Applicable action restrictions", "description": "Require current documentary support for access and intervention decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which effective instruments govern this proposed approach, landing, recording or other activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-action-restrictions-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority can assess the proposal, and what does its authority fail to establish about Sentinelese consent?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-action-restrictions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-disclosure", "name": "Representation and disclosure", "description": "Prevent advocacy, official statements or publications from claiming unsupported community endorsement.", "findings": [ { "id": "safe-and-accountable-agent-output", "name": "Safe and accountable agent output", "description": "Constrain statements, referrals and information release to evidence and legitimate purpose.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is an actor speaking about the Sentinelese or demonstrably authorised to speak for them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "safe-and-accountable-agent-output-q01" }, { "text": "Can the protection purpose be served through a limited referral without publishing settlement details or encouraging contact?", "kind": "action", "id": "safe-and-accountable-agent-output-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "North Sentinel Island community (the only living Sentinelese population)", "historical Sentinelese as recorded in 19th-20th century Andaman administration and anthropological notes", "self-isolating / uncontacted status as a legal and ethnographic category" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q271987", "note": "Wikidata item for the Sentinelese people." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "std", "note": "ISO 639-3 code for the Sentinel language; the language itself is unattested in usable description." }, { "scheme": "Glottolog", "value_or_pattern": "sent1241", "note": "Glottolog identifier for Sentinel." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956 (ANPATR), Government of India - prohibits entry into reserved tribal areas including North Sentinel Island without permission.", "Scheduled Tribes recognition under the Constitution of India and related scheduled-area / tribal-protection practice for Andaman Indigenous groups.", "Buffer-zone / exclusion practice around North Sentinel Island enforced by the Andaman and Nicobar administration and Indian Coast Guard (typically a several-kilometre no-approach zone).", "UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) as international frames; India has not ratified ILO 169, and Sentinelese policy is implemented as non-contact rather than consultation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Treated as an uncontacted Indigenous people whose land is a legally restricted tribal reserve, not as a tourist, research, or missionary destination.", "Encountered only at a distance: aerial and satellite observation, rare shore sightings, and a small number of documented 20th-century contact attempts.", "Used in Indian state practice as the limiting case of isolationist tribal protection: drop-and-leave gift attempts were abandoned in favour of a no-contact policy after the 1990s.", "Cited in public health and anthropology as a population for whom introduced disease would be catastrophic because of long isolation and lack of immunity.", "The 2018 killing of missionary John Allen Chau is the most widely cited recent encounter and is used in law-enforcement and policy discussion of the exclusion zone." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Estimated population", "typical_range": "about 50-400, with many published guesses clustering around 50-150", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Island area (North Sentinel Island)", "typical_range": "about 47-60", "unit": "km²" }, { "quantity": "Legal / operational exclusion distance from the island", "typical_range": "typically cited as 3-5", "unit": "nautical miles (or kilometres, depending on the instrument)" }, { "quantity": "Documented modern contact events with outsiders that produced more than a brief sighting", "typical_range": "a handful across the 19th-21st centuries; none amounting to sustained peaceful settlement of relations", "unit": "events" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Lethal violence toward approaching boats or people on the beach, historically including arrows and, in 2018, the killing of an illegal visitor.", "Catastrophic epidemic risk if contact introduces influenza, measles, or other pathogens to an immunologically isolated group.", "Legal and ethical failure of researchers, journalists, missionaries, or tourists who breach the exclusion zone.", "State-capacity failure: inadequate patrol of the surrounding waters after cyclones or shipwrecks, which can strand outsiders on the island.", "Knowledge failure: population, language, kinship, and health status are essentially unmeasured; published numbers are guesses and should not be treated as census." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In Indian official and Andaman usage they are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group associated specifically with North Sentinel Island, distinct from other Andamanese groups.", "In international media and popular usage 'Sentinelese' is often used as a synonym for 'the world's most isolated tribe', which collapses legal status, geography, and a specific people into a slogan.", "Among Andamanese peoples more broadly, the Onge, Jarawa, Great Andamanese, and (historically) Jangil are neighbouring but separate groups; they are not regional varieties of the Sentinelese.", "The language is unclassified in practice because it is unattested; it is sometimes grouped with Ongan (Onge-Jarawa) on geographic and limited historical grounds, which is a hypothesis, not an established dialect geography." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Jarawa", "difference": "The Jarawa live on South and Middle Andaman, have had increasing (often harmful) contact along the Andaman Trunk Road, and speak a documented Ongan language; the Sentinelese live only on North Sentinel Island and remain uncontacted." }, { "name": "Onge", "difference": "The Onge inhabit Little Andaman, are a contacted and enumerated Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, and have a described language (öŋge); they are not the Sentinelese." }, { "name": "Great Andamanese", "difference": "Great Andamanese refers to the Indigenous peoples of Great Andaman whose languages form a separate family; they were heavily disrupted by colonisation and are now a small composite community, not an uncontacted island isolate." }, { "name": "Shompen", "difference": "The Shompen are an Indigenous people of Great Nicobar, not of the Andaman Islands, and are not uncontacted in the Sentinelese sense." }, { "name": "uncontacted peoples of Amazonia (generic)", "difference": "Shared legal/ethical category (self-isolating Indigenous groups) but different continents, states, ecologies, and contact histories; Sentinelese identity is island-and-archipelago-specific." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Sentinelese people this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "What population range, if any, can existing observations support without intrusive enumeration?", "What can existing evidence establish about self-designation, language relationships and internal social organisation?", "Which protection instruments, geographic restrictions and emergency procedures are currently operative?", "Which recent reports of intrusion or ecological disturbance are independently substantiated, and what effects remain unknown?", "What evidence could establish a Sentinelese-initiated request or mandate without assuming that an individual encounter represents collective consent?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "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 Sentinelese people, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise the Sentinelese as a distinct Indigenous people, assess evidence about their collective continuity and external pressures, and constrain actions around their autonomy and protection.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 63 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 Sentinelese people, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 63 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 Sentinelese people from another, and a Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people.", "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 Sentinelese people and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Sentinelese people, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Sentinelese people sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Sentinelese people.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 Sentinelese people is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people, 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 Sentinelese people 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 } } } }