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relative of a specified person through blood or marriage, including relationship paths, temporal status, evidence, and limits on acting upon that classification.", "in_scope": [ "The person classified as a relative and the reference person to whom they are related", "Blood relationships and relationships established through marriage", "Relationship paths, direction, and multiple concurrent kinship connections", "Evidence, uncertainty, disagreement, and changes affecting relationship descriptions", "Context-specific recognition and permissions relevant to using kinship information" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The complete identity, biography, or occupation of either person", "Marriage formation, dissolution, and registration as independent processes", "Household membership, friendship, and caregiving without an established qualifying relationship", "Genetic testing procedures and medical interpretation of inherited risk", "Inheritance, guardianship, dependency, or decision-making authority as 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"kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Blood; marriage; both; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates the registry's qualifying bases and exposes uncertain classification." }, { "name": "Kinship path", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "One or more ordered paths through identified parentage and marriage relationships, with uncertain links marked", "why_it_matters": "Supports precise descriptions and prevents labels from concealing unsupported connections." }, { "name": "Relationship designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Recorded kinship term with language, speaker perspective, and applicable convention", "why_it_matters": "Terms such as aunt or cousin may not uniquely specify the underlying relationship." }, { "name": "Relationship assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Asserted; supported; disputed; unresolved, with evidence basis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a reported relationship from one adequately established for a particular use." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Relationship description as of a specified date; relevant events; continuation unresolved where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Avoids silently treating marriage-related labels as timeless." }, { "name": "Kinship distance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of specified relationship links along a stated path; any formal degree requires a named counting convention", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison without conflating graph distance with legal or cultural degrees of relationship." }, { "name": "Action-specific authority", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Not assessed; independently established; absent; disputed, for a named action and context", "why_it_matters": "Prevents kinship from being used as a substitute for consent or authorization." } ], "affordances": [ "Explain how a person is related to a specified reference person using supported relationship paths.", "Distinguish blood-based, 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"findings": [ { "id": "anchored-relative-classification", "name": "Anchored relative classification", "description": "Record the two people and the direction in which any kinship designation is applied.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is classified as the relative, and of which reference person?", "kind": "definition", "id": "anchored-relative-classification-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes each endpoint from another family member with the same or a similar name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "anchored-relative-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualifying-relationship-basis", "name": "Qualifying relationship basis", "description": "Separates the supplied blood-or-marriage definition from broader uses of family terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-inclusion", "name": "Basis for inclusion", "description": "Make the asserted qualifying basis explicit and retain unresolved cases for review.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is inclusion asserted through blood, marriage, or both, and what connection is being claimed?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-inclusion-q01" }, { "text": "Does the designation depend on adoption, chosen family, or another basis whose inclusion the registry has not clarified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-inclusion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kinship-paths-and-designations", "name": "Kinship paths and designations", "description": "Describes the connections that make the person a relative and the terms used for those connections.", "rationale": "A kinship label alone may hide the connecting marriage, shared ancestor, direction, or existence of multiple paths.", "layers": [ { "id": "connecting-paths", "name": "Connecting paths", "description": "Traces blood and marriage connections between the two people.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-kinship-connection", "name": "Traceable kinship connection", "description": "Record each relevant path with the basis of its links, including shared ancestors or connecting marriages where applicable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which parentage links, shared ancestors, or marriages connect the two people?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-kinship-connection-q01" }, { "text": "Are there multiple connecting paths, and which links in each remain unknown or disputed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "traceable-kinship-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "terms-and-distance", "name": "Terms and distance", "description": "Interprets kinship labels and any reported degree of relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-kinship-designation", "name": "Interpretable kinship designation", "description": "Associate kinship terms and distance measures with the perspective and convention that give them meaning.", "questions": [ { "text": "What kinship term is used, by whom, in which language, and does it distinguish the relevant branch or generation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "interpretable-kinship-designation-q01" }, { "text": "If a degree or distance is reported, which path and counting convention produce it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-kinship-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "relationship-evidence-and-time", "name": "Relationship evidence and time", "description": "Makes the support, disputes, and temporal applicability of kinship claims assessable.", "rationale": "Family assertions can contain uncertain links, and events affecting marriage can require reconsidering relationship descriptions.", "layers": [ { "id": "support-for-kinship-claims", "name": "Support for kinship claims", "description": "Connects evidence to specific links rather than treating an entire family account as uniformly established.", "findings": [ { "id": "link-specific-evidence", "name": "Link-specific evidence", "description": "Identify what supports each claimed connection and preserve conflicting accounts without silently resolving them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which testimony or records support each parentage or marriage link, and what do they actually establish?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "link-specific-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which conflicting accounts or missing links prevent reliance on the claimed relationship for the intended use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "link-specific-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relationship-history", "name": "Relationship history", "description": "Distinguishes historical descriptions from classifications used at a particular time.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-relationship-assessment", "name": "Dated relationship assessment", "description": "Record relevant dates and events while leaving continuation of marriage-based classifications explicit rather than assumed.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what date is this relationship being described, and which marriage, divorce, annulment, or death events are relevant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-relationship-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What convention or applicable rule determines whether the marriage-based 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that process require?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "purpose-specific-relative-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does the supported relationship satisfy those requirements, or is further verification needed?", "kind": "action", "id": "purpose-specific-relative-status-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-disclosure-and-representation", "name": "Contact, disclosure, and representation", "description": "Checks the basis for actions involving relatives and sensitive family connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "independently-authorized-family-action", "name": "Independently authorized family action", "description": "Assess contact preferences, disclosure permissions, and representative authority independently of kinship.", "questions": [ { "text": "What consent, contact preferences, or restrictions apply before revealing this connection or approaching the relative?", "kind": "action", "id": "independently-authorized-family-action-q01" }, { "text": "If the relative is to receive information or act for the reference person, what separately establishes authority for that specific action?", "kind": "action", "id": "independently-authorized-family-action-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes a relational status of a person, not an occupation, qualification or employment role.", "The requested sense 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evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Recording family relationships in genealogy", "Identifying potentially relevant family medical history", "Establishing relationships relevant to inheritance", "Assessing family relationships in immigration applications", "Identifying family connections relevant to conflicts of interest" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of relative this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Generational distance along a specified line of descent", "typical_range": "One for parent-child; two for 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sense of relative this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Kinship terminology varies across languages and cultures, including distinctions between maternal and paternal relatives.", "Legal definitions of relative vary by jurisdiction and purpose, including their treatment of spouses, step-relatives and relationships after divorce.", "Methods for counting degrees of kinship differ between legal and customary systems." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of relative this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "family member", "difference": "Family membership can include adoption, guardianship or chosen family; the specified sense of relative requires a connection through descent or marriage." }, { "name": "household member", "difference": "Household membership concerns a shared domestic living arrangement and does not require kinship." }, { "name": "ancestor", "difference": "An ancestor is a relative in a direct ascending line of descent; relatives also include descendants, collateral kin and affinal kin." }, { "name": "next of kin", "difference": "Next of kin identifies a closest relative or a context-specific category of relatives, rather than every relative." }, { "name": "dependent", "difference": "Dependency concerns reliance on another person for support and does not itself establish a family relationship." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched.", "facetsInferred": false, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "affine", "ancestor", "ascendant", "ascendent", "antecedent", "root", "ancestress", "antediluvian", "antediluvian patriarch", "aunt", "auntie", "aunty" ] } ], "standing": "75 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 relative from another, and a relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative 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 relative is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative 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 relative between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative.", "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 relative and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a relative, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a relative sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative.", "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 relative 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 relative is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a relative, 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 relative, 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 relative 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 } } } }