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    "name": "uncle or aunt",
    "purpose": "Let an agent handle uncles and aunts as kinship terms across languages and cultures, and in general legal contexts such as guardianship and inheritance, without personal legal advice.",
    "definition": "A second-degree relative who is a sibling of a parent, or the spouse of a parent sibling; English uses uncle for males and aunt for females, while many languages distinguish maternal and paternal sides or relative age.",
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      "explain kinship terms for uncles and aunts",
      "translate terms that distinguish maternal and paternal sides",
      "understand general legal roles such as kinship care",
      "build family trees"
    ],
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      "Second-degree relative by blood or marriage",
      "Terms vary by culture",
      "May have legal roles",
      "Honorific uses for family friends"
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      "Parent sibling or their spouse",
      "Maternal and paternal distinctions in many languages",
      "Cousins are the children of uncles and aunts"
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      "paternal uncles and aunts",
      "uncles and aunts by marriage",
      "great-uncles and great-aunts",
      "honorific uncles and aunts"
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        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "second-degree relative",
        "why": "category"
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      {
        "relation": "is a sibling of",
        "target": "parent",
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      {
        "relation": "is parent of",
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      {
        "relation": "is related to",
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      }
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    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Family law on kinship care and guardianship",
      "Inheritance rules on intestacy"
    ],
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      "Mistranslating kinship terms",
      "Assuming English categories are universal",
      "Agents giving legal advice on custody"
    ],
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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      "may": [
        "Explain kinship terms for uncles and aunts across languages, including maternal and paternal distinctions.",
        "Translate kinship terms with the distinctions the target language requires."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Translate kinship terms in a way that loses or invents a distinction that matters to the meaning.",
        "Give legal advice on custody, guardianship or inheritance involving an uncle or aunt.",
        "Disclose information about a person's relatives without consent."
      ],
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        "Acting on a family relationship in a legal matter, such as guardianship of a child."
      ]
    },
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        "Kinship terms carry duties and respect in many cultures; mistranslation can offend.",
        "Uncles and aunts may take on care of children; that touches child welfare."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Families",
        "Children in kinship care"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the relation; family law of the jurisdiction governs legal duties.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
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      "title": "Wikidata item Q21073936: uncle or aunt",
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      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Aunt and uncle",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_and_uncle",
      "url_status": "live",
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        "id": "terms",
        "name": "Terms",
        "description": "Kinship words.",
        "rationale": "Words vary.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "meaning",
            "name": "Meaning",
            "description": "Relationship.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "meaning-finding",
                "name": "Meaning",
                "description": "Relationship.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is this a blood relative or an uncle or aunt by marriage?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "On which side of the family?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "translation",
            "name": "Translation",
            "description": "Other languages.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "translation-finding",
                "name": "Translation",
                "description": "Translation.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which term does this language use for a maternal or paternal uncle or aunt?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does relative age matter?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
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        "id": "culture",
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        "description": "Roles.",
        "rationale": "Roles differ.",
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          {
            "id": "role",
            "name": "Role",
            "description": "Family role.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "role-finding",
                "name": "Role",
                "description": "Family role.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What roles do uncles or aunts traditionally play in this culture, according to sources?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is there a special role for the maternal uncle?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
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          {
            "id": "honorific",
            "name": "Honorific",
            "description": "Courtesy use.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "honorific-finding",
                "name": "Honorific",
                "description": "Honorific use.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is uncle or aunt used here as a courtesy title for an older person?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is that respectful in context?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "law",
        "name": "Law",
        "description": "Legal roles.",
        "rationale": "Law may involve relatives.",
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          {
            "id": "care",
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            "description": "Kinship care.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "care-finding",
                "name": "Care",
                "description": "Kinship care.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can a relative become a kinship carer or guardian here, in general terms?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which agency or advice service helps?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "inheritance",
            "name": "Inheritance",
            "description": "Intestacy.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "inheritance-finding",
                "name": "Inheritance",
                "description": "Inheritance.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Do uncles or aunts inherit under intestacy rules here?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Should a lawyer be consulted?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "genealogy",
        "name": "Genealogy",
        "description": "Family trees.",
        "rationale": "Trees record relations.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "tree",
            "name": "Tree",
            "description": "Placement.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "tree-finding",
                "name": "Tree",
                "description": "Family tree.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Where does this person sit in the family tree?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which records confirm it?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "degree",
            "name": "Degree",
            "description": "Degree of kinship.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "degree-finding",
                "name": "Degree",
                "description": "Degree of kinship.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What degree of kinship is an uncle or aunt under this legal system?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Does it matter for marriage rules?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should maternal and paternal terms be separate entries?",
    "How should language-specific terms be linked?",
    "How should honorific uses be recorded?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
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}