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                "boundary tree",
                "triangulation station",
                "Prague Poles",
                "Cast-iron boundary marks",
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                "single-stone boundary marker",
                "bolt boundary marker",
                "quadrangular boundary marker",
                "five-stone boundary marker",
                "five-post boundary marker",
                "single-pole boundary marker",
                "three-stone boundary marker",
                "four-stone boundary marker",
                "pouwhenua",
                "boundary stone of the Mexico-United States border",
                "Stone Cairn",
                "boundary stones Arnhem",
                "marker stone",
                "Boundary stones in the Netherlands",
                "Mussertpaal",
                "coal-tax post",
                "horos",
                "dragons of the City of London",
                "borderstones Belgium-Prussia (protected)",
                "borderstones Belgium-Prussia",
                "London Stone",
                "border pole",
                "block traverse point",
                "fourth-order triangulation point"
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                ],
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                "wave": 1,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                    "PHY.BLT"
                ],
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            },
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                "name": "boundary marker",
                "purpose": "Let an agent handle boundary markers by type, location, legal significance, survey records and heritage, without legal advice on boundary disputes.",
                "definition": "A physical marker, such as a stone, post, pillar, cast-iron plate, tree or triangulation station, placed to indicate a boundary or survey point between properties, parishes, municipalities or countries.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Marking and preserving boundaries and survey control.",
                "affordances": [
                    "identify boundary marker types",
                    "find survey and cadastral records",
                    "understand legal protection of markers",
                    "learn about historic boundary stones"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Marks a boundary point",
                    "Often legally protected",
                    "Linked to survey records",
                    "Many are historic"
                ],
                "appearance": "Stones, pillars, posts, metal pins or plates, sometimes inscribed or numbered.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Inscribed stones and survey pins",
                    "Triangulation pillars",
                    "Road signs mark jurisdictions differently"
                ],
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                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "property boundary pins",
                    "parish and municipal boundary stones",
                    "international border markers",
                    "triangulation stations",
                    "boundary trees"
                ],
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                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "geographical marker and small monument",
                        "why": "category"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "marks",
                        "target": "boundary",
                        "why": "object"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is recorded in",
                        "target": "cadastre and survey",
                        "why": "records"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "land",
                        "why": "property"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Survey and cadastral law",
                    "Heritage protection for historic stones",
                    "Border treaties"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Moving or damaging markers",
                    "Agents giving legal advice on disputes"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
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            "structure": {
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                    {
                        "id": "marker",
                        "name": "Marker",
                        "description": "Which marker.",
                        "rationale": "Details identify.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "type",
                                "name": "Type",
                                "description": "Kind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "type-finding",
                                        "name": "Type",
                                        "description": "Marker type.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What type of boundary marker is it?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What do its inscriptions say?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "location",
                                "name": "Location",
                                "description": "Survey records.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "location-finding",
                                        "name": "Location",
                                        "description": "Location.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where is it recorded in survey or cadastral records?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are its coordinates?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "law",
                        "name": "Law",
                        "description": "Legal significance.",
                        "rationale": "Markers matter legally.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "protection",
                                "name": "Protection",
                                "description": "Offences.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "protection-finding",
                                        "name": "Protection",
                                        "description": "Legal protection.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it an offence to move or damage the marker here?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Who maintains it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "disputes",
                                "name": "Disputes",
                                "description": "Boundary disputes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "disputes-finding",
                                        "name": "Disputes",
                                        "description": "Disputes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user involved in a boundary dispute?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can a surveyor or lawyer be found?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "heritage",
                        "name": "Heritage",
                        "description": "Historic stones.",
                        "rationale": "Some are protected heritage.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "Origins.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the history of this boundary stone?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it listed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "customs",
                                "name": "Customs",
                                "description": "Beating the bounds.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "customs-finding",
                                        "name": "Customs",
                                        "description": "Customs.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Are there local customs such as beating the bounds?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "When do they take place?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "survey",
                        "name": "Survey",
                        "description": "Geodesy.",
                        "rationale": "Survey marks support mapping.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "control",
                                "name": "Control",
                                "description": "Survey control.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "control-finding",
                                        "name": "Control",
                                        "description": "Survey control.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is this a geodetic control point, and which agency maintains it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can its data be accessed?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "report",
                                "name": "Report",
                                "description": "Damage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "report-finding",
                                        "name": "Report",
                                        "description": "Reporting damage.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can a damaged survey marker be reported?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "To which agency?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should marker types be separate entries?",
                "How should survey records be linked?",
                "How should international markers be linked?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "building, structure or infrastructure",
            "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 boundary marker, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle boundary markers by type, location, legal significance, survey records and heritage, without legal advice on boundary disputes.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "material",
                "origin": "manufactured",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "fixed",
                "scale": "built"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured",
                "entered, crossed or travelled along"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: boundary tree, triangulation station, Prague Poles, Cast-iron boundary marks, Diocletian boundary stones, pipe boundary marker, single-stone boundary marker, bolt boundary marker, quadrangular boundary marker, five-stone boundary marker, five-post boundary marker, single-pole boundary marker.",
                "30 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 38 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 boundary marker, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "On the scale of a building: sited rather than moved.",
                "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.",
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "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",
                "enter it, cross it, travel along it"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by form, materials and siting, and confirmed by address or by a register entry rather than by looking."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "boundary tree",
                        "triangulation station",
                        "Prague Poles",
                        "Cast-iron boundary marks",
                        "Diocletian boundary stones",
                        "pipe boundary marker",
                        "single-stone boundary marker",
                        "bolt boundary marker",
                        "quadrangular boundary marker",
                        "five-stone boundary marker",
                        "five-post boundary marker",
                        "single-pole boundary marker"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 38 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 30 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 boundary marker from another, and a boundary marker 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "form-and-composition",
                        "name": "Form, composition and condition",
                        "description": "What a boundary marker is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "form-and-dimensions",
                                "name": "Form and dimensions",
                                "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at built scale.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "measurable-dimensions",
                                        "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units",
                                        "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a boundary marker, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a boundary marker, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "material-and-composition",
                                "name": "Material and composition",
                                "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "parts-and-materials",
                                        "name": "Parts and materials",
                                        "description": "What a boundary marker is built from and which parts are replaceable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a boundary marker, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a boundary marker, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "condition-and-integrity",
                                "name": "Condition and integrity",
                                "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a boundary marker is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a boundary marker, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a boundary marker, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a boundary marker 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 boundary marker is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).",
                        "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 boundary marker is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker is carried, installed or relocated.",
                                "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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a boundary marker 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "use-and-operation",
                        "name": "Use and operation",
                        "description": "What can be done with a boundary marker and what it takes to do it.",
                        "rationale": "An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "intended-use",
                                "name": "Intended use and function",
                                "description": "What a boundary marker is for, and what it is used for anyway.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "function-and-purpose",
                                        "name": "Function, purpose and misuse",
                                        "description": "The function a boundary marker performs and the uses that fall outside it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the use of a boundary marker, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the use of a boundary marker, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "function-and-purpose-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the use of a boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "handling-and-procedure",
                                "name": "Handling and procedure",
                                "description": "The steps, skills and tools involved in using a boundary marker.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "procedures-and-skills",
                                        "name": "Procedures, skills and required tools",
                                        "description": "What an agent needs before it can act on a boundary marker at all.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes handling a boundary marker, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about handling a boundary marker, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "procedures-and-skills-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once handling a boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "structure-and-capacity",
                        "name": "Structure, materials and capacity",
                        "description": "How boundary marker is built and how much it can take.",
                        "rationale": "Capacity and structural type govern what may lawfully happen inside or on it, and both are attested rather than obvious.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "construction",
                                "name": "Construction and materials",
                                "description": "Structural type, materials and principal dimensions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "construction-record",
                                        "name": "Structural type and dimensions",
                                        "description": "What it is made of and how big it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "construction-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What structural type and materials characterise boundary marker, and what are its principal dimensions?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "construction-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What in that construction limits how it may be altered?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "capacity-and-load",
                                "name": "Capacity and load",
                                "description": "Occupancy, load ratings and their basis.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "capacity-record",
                                        "name": "Rated capacity and who set it",
                                        "description": "The limits and the authority that certified them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "capacity-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What capacity or load is boundary marker rated for, under which code, certified by whom?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "capacity-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What must an agent refuse to permit beyond that rating?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "tenure-and-condition",
                        "name": "Ownership, permitting and condition",
                        "description": "Who holds boundary marker, what it is permitted for, and what state it is in.",
                        "rationale": "A structure is not the organisation that uses it, and its permission to exist is separate from its condition.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "tenure",
                                "name": "Ownership and permission",
                                "description": "Title, occupancy and the permits in force.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "tenure-record",
                                        "name": "Title, occupier and permits",
                                        "description": "Who owns, who occupies, and what is permitted.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "tenure-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Who owns and who occupies boundary marker, and which permits or consents are in force?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "tenure-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What distinguishes the structure from the organisation that operates in it?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "inspection",
                                "name": "Condition and inspection",
                                "description": "Inspection regime, defects and remaining service life.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inspection-record",
                                        "name": "Inspections and defects",
                                        "description": "What is inspected, how often, and what was found.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "inspection-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What inspection regime applies to boundary marker, at what interval, and by whom?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inspection-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What finding takes it out of service, and who may authorise its return?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a boundary marker 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 boundary marker and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker 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 boundary marker is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a boundary marker, 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 boundary marker, 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 boundary marker is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 8,
                "layers": 17,
                "findings": 19,
                "questions": 53
            }
        }
    }
}