{
  "_about": "A referent is a THING the conversation is about: a person, group, process, system, artifact, problem, attempt, policy, or proposal. Evidence units point at referents. Referents are what make it possible to say 'show me everything said about report preparation' across forty turns or across twelve interviews, instead of string-matching. 'aliases' are the surface forms used in the transcript.",
  "transcript_id": "tx_001",
  "referents": [
    {
      "id": "ref_spk1",
      "kind": "person",
      "label": "spk_1 (reporting team lead)",
      "aliases": [
        "I",
        "me"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 2,
        "sentence": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_reporting_team",
      "kind": "group",
      "label": "Operations reporting team",
      "aliases": [
        "the reporting team",
        "my team",
        "we",
        "three of us"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 2,
        "sentence": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_regional_directors",
      "kind": "group",
      "label": "Regional directors (report audience)",
      "aliases": [
        "the regional directors",
        "the directors"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 2,
        "sentence": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_priya",
      "kind": "person",
      "label": "Priya",
      "aliases": [
        "Priya",
        "she"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 8,
        "sentence": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_speaker_director",
      "kind": "person",
      "label": "spk_1's director",
      "aliases": [
        "my director"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 18,
        "sentence": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_weekly_report",
      "kind": "artifact",
      "label": "Weekly performance report",
      "aliases": [
        "the weekly performance report",
        "the weekly report",
        "the report",
        "it"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 2,
        "sentence": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_report_prep",
      "kind": "process",
      "label": "Weekly report preparation process",
      "aliases": [
        "prepare the weekly report",
        "the manual process",
        "the current process",
        "doing it manually"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 3,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_warehouse_system",
      "kind": "system",
      "label": "Warehouse system",
      "aliases": [
        "the warehouse system",
        "the warehouse side"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 8,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_fleet_tracker",
      "kind": "system",
      "label": "Fleet tracker",
      "aliases": [
        "the fleet tracker",
        "the fleet export"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 8,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_finance_spreadsheet",
      "kind": "artifact",
      "label": "Finance-maintained spreadsheet",
      "aliases": [
        "a spreadsheet the finance side maintains",
        "that one"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 8,
        "sentence": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_column_drift",
      "kind": "problem",
      "label": "Column names changing between exports",
      "aliases": [
        "the column names change",
        "that"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 10,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_manual_remap",
      "kind": "practice",
      "label": "Manual column remapping before merge",
      "aliases": [
        "remap the columns by hand",
        "the column remapping"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 10,
        "sentence": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_remap_script",
      "kind": "attempt",
      "label": "Remap automation script (last year)",
      "aliases": [
        "a script",
        "it"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 12,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_lateness",
      "kind": "problem",
      "label": "Report lateness / incompleteness",
      "aliases": [
        "the report is late",
        "late",
        "goes out with gaps"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 14,
        "sentence": 3
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_cutoff_policy",
      "kind": "policy",
      "label": "Friday 3 p.m. hard cutoff policy",
      "aliases": [
        "the policy",
        "a hard Friday 3 p.m. cutoff"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 16,
        "sentence": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_remap_tool",
      "kind": "proposal",
      "label": "Hypothetical automatic remapping tool",
      "aliases": [
        "a tool",
        "it"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 17,
        "sentence": 0
      },
      "note": "Introduced by the interviewer, not the speaker. Everything said about it is reaction to a hypothetical."
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_tool_budget",
      "kind": "constraint",
      "label": "Tool purchasing authority and budget",
      "aliases": [
        "approve tools",
        "budget line"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 18,
        "sentence": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_security_review",
      "kind": "process",
      "label": "Security review for warehouse-connected tools",
      "aliases": [
        "security review",
        "security"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 19,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_pilot",
      "kind": "proposal",
      "label": "Proposed pilot",
      "aliases": [
        "a pilot",
        "sample exports"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 21,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "ref_daily_report_request",
      "kind": "event",
      "label": "Directors' request for a daily report",
      "aliases": [
        "a daily version"
      ],
      "first_mention": {
        "turn": 24,
        "sentence": 0
      }
    }
  ]
}