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"affected_parties": [ "Korean people", "Diaspora communities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the names; each state sets its own official name.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "The subject appears in textual accounts tracing the origins and development of names such as Korea, Joseon, Hanguk or Goryeo.", "The appearance of a name alone does not establish its etymology." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Misnaming causes offence or political misunderstanding.", "Confusing polities garbles history." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Names of Korea occur in historical texts, maps, diplomatic records, language study and contemporary geographic references.", "Their interpretation requires distinguishing the peninsula and cultural region from historical polities and the two present-day states.", "Name selection supports translation and cataloguing while preserving the period, language and geographic scope intended by a source." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "ISO 3166-1, issued by the International Organization for Standardization, provides country identifiers for the two present-day Korean states but does not classify historical names or their etymologies.", "The United Nations M49 classification, maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, provides statistical country or area names and numerical codes for the two present-day Korean states." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1188235: names of Korea", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1188235", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Names of Korea", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Korea", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "korean-name-referents", "name": "Korean name referents", "description": "Distinguishes what each designation names within the Korean geographic and political context.", "rationale": "Names associated with Korea cannot safely be merged solely because they share an English gloss.", "layers": [ { "id": "regional-and-state-reference", "name": "Regional and state reference", "description": "Separates peninsula-wide or cultural reference from reference to a particular state.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-resolution", "name": "Referent resolution", "description": "Record the intended referent of each attestation, retaining ambiguity when the passage does not resolve it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does Korea in this passage designate the peninsula, a cultural-historical region or a particular state?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What surrounding wording, document date or issuing body supports that interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "referent-resolution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-polity-reference", "name": "Historical polity reference", "description": "Controls relationships between historical polity names and broader names of Korea.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-name-membership", "name": "Historical name membership", "description": "Treat candidate forms such as Goryeo and Joseon as requiring period-specific referent evidence rather than unconditional synonym mappings.", "questions": [ { "text": "In which attestations does this historical designation name a specific polity, and in which does it serve a broader naming function?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-name-membership-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence justifies including this polity name in the repertoire of names of Korea?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-name-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "korean-name-forms", "name": "Korean name forms", "description": "Preserves linguistic representations and distinguishes alternate spellings from distinct designations.", "rationale": "Script conversion and romanization can conceal differences that matter for identifying Korean names.", "layers": [ { "id": "original-language-forms", "name": "Original-language forms", "description": "Records exact forms in Korean and other languages together with their linguistic setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "script-and-reading", "name": "Script and reading", "description": "Keep attested Hangul, Hanja and other written forms linked to sourced readings and meanings where available.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact spelling and script does the source use for this name of Korea?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "script-and-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Are the proposed pronunciation and character interpretation documented for this language and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "script-and-reading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "romanizations-and-exonyms", "name": "Romanizations and exonyms", "description": "Distinguishes transliteration relationships from independently conventional foreign-language 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Korea-related names as attributed claims with stated evidential limits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scholarly sources support the proposed derivation of this name?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-origin-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Which intermediate forms or borrowing steps are directly attested, and which remain reconstructed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "name-origin-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-and-official-usage", "name": "Community and official usage", "description": "Relates Korean designations to the institutions and communities that use them.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish an institution's official terminology from a community preference or an author's choice.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutional-designations", "name": "Institutional designations", "description": "Records formal names and short forms under identified authorities and dates.", "findings": [ { "id": "official-name-authority", "name": "Official name authority", "description": "Attribute claims of official status to an issuing institution, language version and period of applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority prescribes this designation, and for which Korean state or other referent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "official-name-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Is this an official full name, an authorized short form or an editorial translation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "official-name-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "community-naming-practices", "name": "Community naming practices", "description": "Captures contextual use of forms such as Hanguk and Joseon without assigning uniform preferences to entire populations.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-name-preference", "name": "Situated name preference", "description": "Record naming preferences only at the level supported by evidence, including diaspora and multilingual settings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community, publication or speaker uses this form, and in what communicative setting?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-name-preference-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish a stated preference, a recurring practice or only one observed use?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-name-preference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "interpretation-and-name-selection", "name": "Interpretation and name selection", "description": "Guides translation, retrieval and editorial choices involving names of Korea.", "rationale": "Recognizing a related name does not establish that replacing it will preserve the source's meaning.", "layers": [ { "id": "context-sensitive-substitution", "name": "Context-sensitive substitution", "description": "Evaluates whether a proposed replacement preserves referent, period and attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "safe-name-choice", "name": "Safe name choice", "description": "Choose a name using the intended audience and task while preserving consequential distinctions in the source.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would replacing this designation with Korea, North Korea or South Korea change the intended referent or introduce an anachronism?", "kind": "action", "id": "safe-name-choice-q01" }, { "text": "Should this translation retain the original name with an explanatory gloss to preserve the author's naming choice?", "kind": "action", "id": "safe-name-choice-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ambiguity-and-disagreement", "name": "Ambiguity and disagreement", "description": "Keeps unresolved reference and competing naming claims visible to downstream users.", "findings": [ { "id": "unresolved-korean-designations", "name": "Unresolved Korean designations", "description": "Retain alternative interpretations and attributed disagreements when evidence does not support one unqualified label.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the disagreement about spelling, official recognition, historical continuity or the territory being named?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "unresolved-korean-designations-q01" }, { "text": "What clarification or additional source is needed before the agent can assign a single referent or preferred label?", "kind": "action", "id": "unresolved-korean-designations-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": [ "The recorded label is interpreted as a naming topic, not a particular publication or creative work.", "Exact historical attestations, etymologies and changes in territorial reference require source checking.", "Romanized spellings depend on the chosen system; contemporary official naming preferences should be verified for the intended institution and language." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of names of Korea this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Korean endonyms", "Foreign-language exonyms", "Historical polity names", "Official state names", "Abbreviated and colloquial names", "Romanized forms" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of names of Korea this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "ISO 3166-1, maintained by the International Organization for Standardization, assigns country codes to the two Korean states; it does not identify the full historical set of names of Korea.", "The Revised Romanization of Korean, promulgated by South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2000, governs romanization under that system." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of names of Korea this model covers, and on what 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": [ "Selecting geographic and state names in maps, gazetteers and reference works.", "Distinguishing the two Korean states in diplomacy and international reporting.", "Interpreting historical texts whose names refer to different polities or territories.", "Translating and localizing references to Korea across languages.", "Connecting variant names in library catalogues and information retrieval." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of names of Korea this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating Korea, the Korean Peninsula and either modern Korean state as interchangeable referents.", "Applying a historical polity name to a territory or period it did not designate.", "Assuming a name has the same geographic scope in North Korean and South Korean usage.", "Mistaking different romanizations of the same Korean name for different entities.", "Presenting disputed etymologies or politically sensitive naming choices as universally accepted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of names of Korea 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": [ "South Korean usage commonly employs Hanguk, while North Korean usage commonly employs Chosŏn; their scope depends on context.", "The official Korean state names are Daehan Minguk in the south and Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk in the north, shown here in different customary romanization systems.", "English Korea derives from the historical name Goryeo, also romanized Koryŏ; other languages have their own conventional 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