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 "$schema": "https://qisfund.com/api/relationships.json",
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  "license": "QIS Ecosystem Dual License v1.0",
  "license_url": "https://qistrust.com/license/",
  "license_effective": "2026-08-02",
  "permitted_free": [
   "Retrieval-augmented generation and question answering with attribution",
   "Search indexing and answer-engine citation",
   "Individual, academic and non-commercial research",
   "Linking, quoting and referencing with a hyperlinked source attribution"
  ],
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   "Training, fine-tuning or aligning a commercial model on this corpus",
   "Bulk ingestion or mirroring of the structured graph into a product",
   "Redistribution or resale as a dataset or directory",
   "Incorporation into a commercial terminal, dashboard or data feed"
  ],
  "attribution_required": true,
  "attribution_form": "Source: https://qisfund.com/api/relationships.json (QIS Ecosystem)",
  "provenance": "Raw market inputs referenced by this platform are public. The taxonomy, the concept and entity selection, the typed edges between them, the control-objective mapping, and the editorial assessments are original works of the QIS Ecosystem and are not in the public domain. Selection and arrangement are the asset.",
  "commercial_licensing": "editor@qisfund.com",
  "version": "13.3",
  "generated": "2026-08-02"
 },
 "version": "1.0",
 "description": "The predicate vocabulary of the QIS ontology. Every edge in the QIS graph carries one of these verbs. Each has an inverse, so the graph is traversable in both directions.",
 "count": 17,
 "verbs": [
  {
   "verb": "governedBy",
   "inverse": "governs",
   "definition": "The subject operates under the authority or constraint of the object."
  },
  {
   "verb": "implementedBy",
   "inverse": "implements",
   "definition": "The object is a concrete realization of the subject."
  },
  {
   "verb": "verifiedBy",
   "inverse": "verifies",
   "definition": "The object provides evidence that the subject holds."
  },
  {
   "verb": "auditedBy",
   "inverse": "audits",
   "definition": "The object examines the subject for conformance after the fact."
  },
  {
   "verb": "dependsOn",
   "inverse": "supports",
   "definition": "The subject cannot function correctly without the object."
  },
  {
   "verb": "extends",
   "inverse": "extendedBy",
   "definition": "The subject adds to the object without replacing it."
  },
  {
   "verb": "supersedes",
   "inverse": "supersededBy",
   "definition": "The subject replaces the object, which is no longer current."
  },
  {
   "verb": "requires",
   "inverse": "requiredBy",
   "definition": "The subject imposes the object as a precondition."
  },
  {
   "verb": "produces",
   "inverse": "producedBy",
   "definition": "The subject emits the object as an output."
  },
  {
   "verb": "consumes",
   "inverse": "consumedBy",
   "definition": "The subject takes the object as an input."
  },
  {
   "verb": "constrains",
   "inverse": "constrainedBy",
   "definition": "The subject bounds what the object may do."
  },
  {
   "verb": "delegatesTo",
   "inverse": "delegatedFrom",
   "definition": "The subject transfers authority to the object."
  },
  {
   "verb": "escalatesTo",
   "inverse": "escalatedFrom",
   "definition": "The subject hands a decision upward to the object."
  },
  {
   "verb": "addresses",
   "inverse": "addressedBy",
   "definition": "The subject speaks to the object as a question or concern."
  },
  {
   "verb": "notEquivalentTo",
   "inverse": "notEquivalentTo",
   "definition": "The two are routinely conflated and are distinct."
  },
  {
   "verb": "aliasOf",
   "inverse": "hasAlias",
   "definition": "The subject is another name for the object."
  },
  {
   "verb": "relatedTo",
   "inverse": "relatedTo",
   "definition": "An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb."
  }
 ]
}