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    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T23:06:21Z",
    "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": 3,
    "engine": "claude"
  },
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    "id": "THING-Q1461541",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.westwork",
    "name": "westwork",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
    "entryKind": "thing",
    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "PHY.BLT"
    ],
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    "purpose": "Let an agent explain what a westwork is and how it functioned, identify surviving examples and their features, relay interpretations from architectural historians with attribution, and distinguish westworks from later facades and narthexes.",
    "definition": "A monumental western entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian or Romanesque church, typically with a tower or towers, a ground-floor vestibule and an upper chapel or gallery open to the nave, built between the ninth and twelfth centuries in the Frankish and German lands; westworks served liturgical, imperial and defensive functions and survive at churches such as Corvey, and they preceded the twin-towered facades of later medieval churches.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Historically, entrance, liturgy and representation; now heritage.",
    "affordances": [
      "explain the form and its functions",
      "identify surviving examples",
      "relay interpretations with attribution",
      "distinguish from related forms"
    ],
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      "Multi-storey western block",
      "Upper gallery open to nave",
      "Towers",
      "Carolingian and Ottonian context"
    ],
    "appearance": "A massive multi-storey western block with towers, an entrance hall and an upper gallery, often taller than the nave.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Monumental western block of an early medieval church",
      "Vestibule below, chapel or gallery above",
      "A narthex is a simple porch; twin-tower facades are later developments"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [
      {
        "quantity": "period",
        "typical_range": "about 800-1200",
        "unit": "years",
        "note": ""
      }
    ],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "Carolingian westworks such as Corvey",
      "Ottonian westworks",
      "Romanesque westworks and reduced forms",
      "westworks in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian churches",
      "later west blocks influenced by the form"
    ],
    "related_models": [
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "building division",
        "why": "in registry terms"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is part of",
        "target": "church building",
        "why": "the western end"
      },
      {
        "relation": "preceded",
        "target": "twin-tower facade",
        "why": "in medieval architecture"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is related to",
        "target": "Carolingian architecture",
        "why": "its origin"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Heritage protection of medieval churches",
      "World Heritage listing of Corvey"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Confusing with narthex or later facades",
      "Presenting contested interpretations as settled",
      "Loss through rebuilding"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": []
  },
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        "name": "Identify",
        "description": "What a westwork is.",
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          {
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            "name": "Definition",
            "description": "Definition and features.",
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                    "text": "What is a westwork, and what features identify one?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the structure a westwork, a narthex or a later facade?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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              {
                "id": "examples-finding",
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                "description": "Examples.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which westworks survive, and how complete are they?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits the specific church?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "function",
        "name": "Function",
        "description": "Functions and meaning.",
        "rationale": "Attribution.",
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          {
            "id": "functions",
            "name": "Functions",
            "description": "Functions.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "functions-finding",
                "name": "Functions",
                "description": "Functions.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What liturgical, imperial and defensive functions have historians proposed, with positions attributed?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is the presentation attributed and neutral?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "liturgy",
            "name": "Liturgy",
            "description": "Liturgy and use.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "liturgy-finding",
                "name": "Liturgy",
                "description": "Liturgy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How were upper chapels and galleries used in worship and ceremony?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which references are standard?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "history",
        "name": "History",
        "description": "Development.",
        "rationale": "Context.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "origins",
            "name": "Origins",
            "description": "Origins.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "origins-finding",
                "name": "Origins",
                "description": "Origins.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How did the westwork develop in Carolingian architecture?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits Carolingian architecture?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "legacy",
            "name": "Legacy",
            "description": "Legacy.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "legacy-finding",
                "name": "Legacy",
                "description": "Legacy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How did westworks influence Romanesque and Gothic facades?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits Romanesque architecture?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "study",
        "name": "Study",
        "description": "Study and conservation.",
        "rationale": "Study.",
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            "id": "research",
            "name": "Research",
            "description": "Research.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "research-finding",
                "name": "Research",
                "description": "Research.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How do archaeology and building research study westworks?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "conservation",
            "name": "Conservation",
            "description": "Conservation.",
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              {
                "id": "conservation-finding",
                "name": "Conservation",
                "description": "Conservation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How are surviving westworks conserved and presented?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which entry fits heritage conservation?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should notable westworks be separate entries?",
    "How should architectural history references be linked?",
    "How should debated functions be recorded?"
  ],
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}