{
  "id": "wnd-ontology",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "updated": "2026-09-29",
  "inherits_from": {
    "site": "graphs.sgit.ai",
    "what": "Every edge a verb with a distinct named inverse; symmetric edges banned; a path must read as a sentence."
  },
  "language_rule": "Every type and verb carries `pt`, so the vocabulary can travel to pt.newsroom.sgit.ai without being rewritten.",
  "node_types": [
    {
      "id": "Article",
      "label": "Article",
      "pt": "Artigo",
      "colour": "#0f766e",
      "definition": "One commissioned op-ed, as published on worldnewsday.org and frozen here. The prose is linked, never reproduced."
    },
    {
      "id": "Author",
      "label": "Author",
      "pt": "Autor",
      "colour": "#b45309",
      "definition": "A named person in an article's byline, in their professional capacity. Name and the role line they gave; nothing else, and never a contact detail."
    },
    {
      "id": "Organisation",
      "label": "Organisation",
      "pt": "Organização",
      "colour": "#1d4ed8",
      "definition": "An organisation an author's own role line names. Derived from that line, never typed by hand."
    },
    {
      "id": "Theme",
      "label": "Theme",
      "pt": "Tema",
      "colour": "#7c3aed",
      "definition": "A theme from the published lexicon whose pattern matched the article's prose. It says the piece contains those words and nothing more."
    },
    {
      "id": "CitedSource",
      "label": "Cited source",
      "pt": "FonteCitada",
      "colour": "#a16207",
      "definition": "A page an article links out to. The evidence the piece offers its reader, counted as the piece offers it."
    },
    {
      "id": "Licence",
      "label": "Licence",
      "pt": "Licença",
      "colour": "#b91c1c",
      "definition": "A statement of republication terms. Carries the form it takes: prose, a named public licence, or a machine-readable declaration."
    },
    {
      "id": "Snapshot",
      "label": "Snapshot",
      "pt": "Captura",
      "colour": "#5c5f66",
      "definition": "A dated capture of the source site: every page fetched, frozen to bytes in this repository, and hashed."
    },
    {
      "id": "Source",
      "label": "Frozen file",
      "pt": "Fonte",
      "colour": "#8a8d94",
      "definition": "One frozen file with its SHA-256. The thing a claim walks back to."
    }
  ],
  "edges": [
    {
      "verb": "written_by",
      "inverse": "wrote",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "Author",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "escrito_por",
        "inverse": "escreveu"
      },
      "reads": "{s} is written by {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "affiliated_to",
      "inverse": "affiliates",
      "domain": "Author",
      "range": "Organisation",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "afiliado_a",
        "inverse": "afilia"
      },
      "reads": "{s} is affiliated to {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "touches",
      "inverse": "touched_by",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "Theme",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "aborda",
        "inverse": "abordado_por"
      },
      "reads": "{s} touches {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "cites",
      "inverse": "cited_by",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "CitedSource",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "cita",
        "inverse": "citado_por"
      },
      "reads": "{s} cites {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "published_under",
      "inverse": "governs",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "Licence",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "publicado_sob",
        "inverse": "rege"
      },
      "reads": "{s} is published under {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "commissioned_by",
      "inverse": "commissioned",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "Organisation",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "encomendado_por",
        "inverse": "encomendou"
      },
      "reads": "{s} was commissioned by {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "attested_by",
      "inverse": "attests",
      "domain": "Article",
      "range": "Source",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "atestado_por",
        "inverse": "atesta"
      },
      "reads": "{s} is attested by {t}"
    },
    {
      "verb": "captured_in",
      "inverse": "captures",
      "domain": "Source",
      "range": "Snapshot",
      "pt": {
        "verb": "capturado_em",
        "inverse": "captura"
      },
      "reads": "{s} was captured in {t}"
    }
  ],
  "banned": [
    {
      "verb": "related_to",
      "why": "Symmetric, so it would be its own inverse, and it says nothing a reader could walk."
    },
    {
      "verb": "mentions",
      "why": "Every edge in a graph built from text mentions something. It is the absence of a verb."
    },
    {
      "verb": "associated_with",
      "why": "The verb reached for when the relationship is unknown. Find out, or leave the edge out."
    },
    {
      "verb": "agrees_with",
      "why": "Two pieces touching the same theme is not agreement. Asserting agreement would be this section putting words in an author's mouth."
    }
  ],
  "taxonomy": [
    {
      "id": "work",
      "broader": null,
      "label": "The work",
      "pt": "O trabalho",
      "types": [
        "Article",
        "Theme",
        "CitedSource"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "people",
      "broader": null,
      "label": "The people",
      "pt": "As pessoas",
      "types": [
        "Author",
        "Organisation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "terms",
      "broader": null,
      "label": "The terms",
      "pt": "Os termos",
      "types": [
        "Licence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence",
      "broader": null,
      "label": "The evidence",
      "pt": "A evidência",
      "types": [
        "Snapshot",
        "Source"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "formulas": [
    {
      "id": "themes",
      "on": "Article",
      "lexicon": "data/lexicon.json",
      "entries": 20,
      "note": "The only classification this graph makes rather than reads. Each edge carries the words the pattern matched, and the gate re-runs every pattern on the frozen bytes in both directions."
    }
  ]
}