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    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T12:19:31Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
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    "pass": 2,
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    "engine": "claude",
    "enrichment": {
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      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T17:00:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:26:47+00:00",
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      ]
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      ]
    }
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      "XCT.REL"
    ],
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    "purpose": "Let an agent explain descent systems, genealogy research and legal uses of descent in general terms, respecting privacy and community rules on ancestry.",
    "definition": "The kinship relation between an individual and their ancestors, traced through parents; societies may reckon descent bilaterally or unilineally, for example through the mother (matrilineal) or the father (patrilineal), forming lineages and clans.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Kinship, genealogy, inheritance, citizenship and group membership.",
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      "explain descent systems",
      "start genealogy research with records",
      "understand descent-based citizenship or membership rules in general terms",
      "handle genetic ancestry results with care"
    ],
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      "Links to ancestors",
      "Reckoned in culturally specific ways",
      "Basis of lineages and clans",
      "Used in law and membership"
    ],
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      "Family trees and pedigrees",
      "Matrilineal and patrilineal lines",
      "Affinity by marriage is a different kinship relation"
    ],
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      "patrilineal descent",
      "matrilineal descent",
      "ambilineal descent",
      "lineages and clans"
    ],
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "kinship relation",
        "why": "category"
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      {
        "relation": "forms",
        "target": "lineage",
        "why": "group"
      },
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        "relation": "is recorded in",
        "target": "genealogy",
        "why": "practice"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "inheritance",
        "why": "legal use"
      }
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      "Nationality laws based on descent",
      "Data protection for records of living people",
      "Indigenous data sovereignty principles"
    ],
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      "Revealing private information about living people",
      "Over-interpreting genetic ancestry tests",
      "Assuming one descent system is universal"
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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        "Explain descent systems such as bilateral, matrilineal and patrilineal reckoning.",
        "Help a person record their own family history with sourced records."
      ],
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        "Reveal private information about living people's parentage or ancestry without consent.",
        "Present a genetic ancestry estimate as proof of descent or identity.",
        "Treat one society's descent system as the natural or universal one.",
        "Use descent to rank people or decide who belongs to a group."
      ],
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        "Disclosing unexpected parentage, adoption or donor conception findings to anyone.",
        "Using descent evidence in inheritance or membership decisions."
      ]
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        "Descent shapes inheritance, citizenship and belonging; errors and disclosures can wreck families.",
        "Ideas of pure descent have been used to justify discrimination."
      ],
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        "Living relatives",
        "Adopted and donor-conceived people",
        "Indigenous and clan communities"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the relation; families keep their own records and civil registries record births.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Civil registration records of births"
      ]
    }
  },
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    {
      "id": "oewn",
      "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13835254-n",
      "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-13835254-n",
      "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    },
    {
      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: descent",
      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descent",
      "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
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      {
        "id": "systems",
        "name": "Systems",
        "description": "Reckoning.",
        "rationale": "Societies differ.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "type",
            "name": "Type",
            "description": "Descent system.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "type-finding",
                "name": "Type",
                "description": "Descent system.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How is descent reckoned in this society, according to ethnographic sources?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is it matrilineal, patrilineal or bilateral?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "groups",
            "name": "Groups",
            "description": "Lineages and clans.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "groups-finding",
                "name": "Groups",
                "description": "Descent groups.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which lineages or clans are formed by descent here?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What roles do they have?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "genealogy",
        "name": "Genealogy",
        "description": "Research.",
        "rationale": "Records support research.",
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          {
            "id": "records",
            "name": "Records",
            "description": "Sources.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "records-finding",
                "name": "Records",
                "description": "Records.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which birth, marriage, census or parish records can trace this line?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Where are they held?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "dna",
            "name": "DNA",
            "description": "Genetic tests.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "dna-finding",
                "name": "DNA",
                "description": "Genetic ancestry.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What can and cannot a genetic ancestry test show?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What privacy risks does it carry for relatives?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "law",
        "name": "Law",
        "description": "Legal uses.",
        "rationale": "Descent has legal effects.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "citizenship",
            "name": "Citizenship",
            "description": "Nationality by descent.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "citizenship-finding",
                "name": "Citizenship",
                "description": "Citizenship by descent.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does this country grant nationality by descent, according to official sources?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the user seeking legal advice for their own case?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "inheritance",
            "name": "Inheritance",
            "description": "Succession.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "inheritance-finding",
                "name": "Inheritance",
                "description": "Inheritance.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How does descent affect inheritance under general rules here?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Should a lawyer be consulted?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "respect",
        "name": "Respect",
        "description": "Privacy and communities.",
        "rationale": "Ancestry is sensitive.",
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          {
            "id": "privacy",
            "name": "Privacy",
            "description": "Living people.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "privacy-finding",
                "name": "Privacy",
                "description": "Privacy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the research involve information about living people?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is their consent needed before sharing?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "community",
            "name": "Community",
            "description": "Community rules.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "community-finding",
                "name": "Community",
                "description": "Community rules.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Do Indigenous or community rules govern access to this ancestry information?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Who should be consulted?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should descent systems be separate entries?",
    "How should genealogy records be linked?",
    "How should community rules on ancestry be respected?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}