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    "model": {
        "rank": 12828,
        "code": "thing-tract",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.tract",
        "name": "tract",
        "purpose": "an extended area of land",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Physical world and living systems",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "PHY",
        "domain": "PHY.PLC",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/tract/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 39,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wordnet",
            "aliases": [
                "ball field",
                "baseball field",
                "diamond",
                "baseball diamond",
                "infield",
                "center field",
                "centerfield",
                "center",
                "centre",
                "football field",
                "gridiron",
                "left field",
                "leftfield",
                "left",
                "outfield",
                "palestra",
                "palaestra",
                "right field",
                "rightfield",
                "right",
                "short",
                "desert",
                "oasis",
                "minefield",
                "bowling green",
                "pitch",
                "soccer field",
                "breeding ground",
                "cow pasture",
                "field of fire",
                "bent",
                "hayfield",
                "meadow",
                "playing field",
                "athletic field",
                "playing area",
                "field",
                "heronry",
                "industrial park",
                "grassland"
            ],
            "aliasCount": 69,
            "merged": 39,
            "knownIn": 0,
            "facets": {
                "substance": "place",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "fixed",
                "scale": "geographic",
                "affordances": [
                    "observable"
                ]
            },
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "noun.location",
            "senseRank": 0,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "oewn:2024",
                "synset": "oewn-08691133-n",
                "ili": "i82519",
                "license": "CC BY 4.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T14:03:06Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 1,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-TRACT",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.tract",
                "name": "tract",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "PHY.PLC"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/tract/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.tract",
                "name": "tract",
                "purpose": "Let an agent handle land tracts by location, ownership, survey and planning records, and separate anatomical, religious and other senses.",
                "definition": "An extended area of land, such as a tract of forest, farmland or undeveloped land, and in property and planning contexts a defined parcel or survey tract; census tracts are statistical areas. Digestive, nerve and religious tracts are different senses.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Describing and managing areas of land.",
                "affordances": [
                    "find records for a tract of land",
                    "understand survey and census tracts",
                    "check planning and use rules",
                    "separate other senses of tract"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Extended area of land",
                    "Recorded in surveys and registers",
                    "Used in planning and statistics",
                    "Many other senses"
                ],
                "appearance": "Areas of land shown on maps and survey plans.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Large areas on maps",
                    "Survey and census tract numbers",
                    "A plot is usually a smaller parcel"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "forest and wild tracts",
                    "agricultural tracts",
                    "survey and subdivision tracts",
                    "census tracts",
                    "playing field areas (loose sense)"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "area of land",
                        "why": "category"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is recorded in",
                        "target": "land register",
                        "why": "record"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is related to",
                        "target": "field",
                        "why": "farmland"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is confused with",
                        "target": "tract (anatomy)",
                        "why": "another sense"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Land registration and survey law",
                    "Planning and zoning law",
                    "Census geography standards"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Boundary disputes",
                    "Outdated survey records",
                    "Agents giving legal advice on land"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "land",
                        "name": "Land",
                        "description": "Which tract.",
                        "rationale": "Records identify.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "identify",
                                "name": "Identify",
                                "description": "Location and owner.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "identify-finding",
                                        "name": "Identify",
                                        "description": "Tract identity.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where is this tract, and who owns or manages it, according to official records?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is its area?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "use",
                                "name": "Use",
                                "description": "Land use.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "use-finding",
                                        "name": "Use",
                                        "description": "Land use.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is the tract used for, and which zoning applies?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it protected?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "records",
                        "name": "Records",
                        "description": "Surveys and census.",
                        "rationale": "Records use tracts.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "survey",
                                "name": "Survey",
                                "description": "Survey tracts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "survey-finding",
                                        "name": "Survey",
                                        "description": "Survey tracts.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is the tract described in survey or cadastral records?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How can boundaries be checked?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "census",
                                "name": "Census",
                                "description": "Census tracts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "census-finding",
                                        "name": "Census",
                                        "description": "Census tracts.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which census tract covers this address, and what data is published for it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are tracts defined?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "limits",
                        "name": "Limits",
                        "description": "Disputes and advice.",
                        "rationale": "Advice limits.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "dispute",
                                "name": "Dispute",
                                "description": "Boundary disputes.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "dispute-finding",
                                        "name": "Dispute",
                                        "description": "Boundary disputes.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is there a boundary or ownership dispute over the tract?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where can a surveyor or lawyer be found?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access",
                                "name": "Access",
                                "description": "Access rights.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-finding",
                                        "name": "Access",
                                        "description": "Access rights.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is there public access to this tract of land?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which rules apply to visitors?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "senses",
                        "name": "Senses",
                        "description": "Disambiguation.",
                        "rationale": "Tract has many senses.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "anatomy",
                                "name": "Anatomy",
                                "description": "Body tracts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "anatomy-finding",
                                        "name": "Anatomy",
                                        "description": "Anatomical sense.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is a digestive, respiratory or nerve tract meant?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "religious",
                                "name": "Religious",
                                "description": "Pamphlets.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "religious-finding",
                                        "name": "Religious",
                                        "description": "Pamphlet sense.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is a tract meant as a short religious or political pamphlet?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should census tracts be a separate entry?",
                "How should land registers be linked?",
                "How should other senses be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "place or geographic feature",
            "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.",
            "facetsInferred": false,
            "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 tract, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "an extended area of land",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "place",
                "origin": "natural",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "fixed",
                "scale": "geographic"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: ball field, baseball field, diamond, baseball diamond, infield, center field, centerfield, center, centre, football field, gridiron, left field.",
                "39 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it."
            ],
            "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 tract, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a portion of the world with an extent",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.",
                "Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.",
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are."
            ],
            "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": [
                        "ball field",
                        "baseball field",
                        "diamond",
                        "baseball diamond",
                        "infield",
                        "center field",
                        "centerfield",
                        "center",
                        "centre",
                        "football field",
                        "gridiron",
                        "left field"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "39 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 tract from another, and a tract 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract 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 geographic 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract is built from and which parts are replaceable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract 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 tract is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract 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 tract between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a tract 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 tract, 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 tract, 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 tract is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "extent-and-geometry",
                        "name": "Extent, geometry and naming",
                        "description": "Where tract is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.",
                        "rationale": "A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "geometry",
                                "name": "Geometry and reference system",
                                "description": "Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "geometry-record",
                                        "name": "Geometry, precision and frame",
                                        "description": "What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "geometry-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What geometry describes tract, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "geometry-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "names",
                                "name": "Names and endonyms",
                                "description": "What it is called in different languages and by different parties.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "naming-record",
                                        "name": "Names and who uses them",
                                        "description": "Official names, local names and contested names.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "naming-record-q01",
                                                "text": "By what names is tract known, in which languages, and which are official to whom?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "naming-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "containment-and-access",
                        "name": "Containment, jurisdiction and access",
                        "description": "What tract sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.",
                        "rationale": "Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "containment",
                                "name": "Administrative containment",
                                "description": "The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "containment-record",
                                        "name": "Containing units and effective dates",
                                        "description": "Where it sits administratively and since when.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "containment-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which administrative units contain tract, and since when does each containment hold?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "containment-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which containment is disputed, and by which parties?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access",
                                "name": "Access and permitted use",
                                "description": "Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and their source",
                                        "description": "Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "Who may enter or use tract, under what conditions, and by whose rule?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a tract 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 tract and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract 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 tract is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a tract, 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 tract, 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 tract is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 7,
                "layers": 15,
                "findings": 17,
                "questions": 47
            }
        }
    }
}