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  "schema": "akashicnet.bq001.candidate_cohort_discovery.v1",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "published_date": "2026-09-17",
  "question_id": "BQ001",
  "status": "discovery_only_not_admitted_to_frozen_audit",
  "boundary": {
    "inclusion_meaning": "worth_auditing_not_support_for_reincarnation",
    "frozen_cohort_changed": false,
    "current_maturity_level": 8,
    "accepted_edges": 0,
    "supports_models": [],
    "cases_promoted": 0
  },
  "screening_gates": [
    "exact_publication_and_stable_source_locator_recovered",
    "pre_identification_material_independently_locatable",
    "ordinary_exposure_pathway_scorable",
    "unselected_statements_and_mismatches_recoverable",
    "privacy_and_publication_rights_safe",
    "methodological_diversity_without_duplicate_lineage"
  ],
  "primary_candidates": [
    {"id":"C-B01","case":"Swarnlata Mishra","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"reported written pre-identification records","required_next_work":["original records","custody chain","complete statement set","mismatches","exposure history"]},
    {"id":"C-B02","case":"Imad Elawar","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"investigator testimony reportedly recorded before identity establishment","required_next_work":["field notes","interpreter chain","candidate-search history","unselected statements","mismatches"]},
    {"id":"C-B03","case":"James Leininger","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"published case report plus extensive critique-response record","required_next_work":["dated chronology","prior exposure audit","selection audit","changed statements","alternative identities"]},
    {"id":"C-B04","case":"Purnima Ekanayake","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"birthmark and claimed-memory comparison with reported post-mortem injuries","required_next_work":["full statement ledger","timing record","medical-record custody","false or unverifiable items","alternative matches"]},
    {"id":"C-B05","case":"Chatura Karunaratne","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"companion birthmark case in Society for Psychical Research literature","required_next_work":["full publication","primary record recovery","timing audit","exposure audit","complete denominator"]},
    {"id":"C-B06","case":"Ravi Shankar Gupta","disposition":"SCREEN","method_value":"classic comparison of a neck birthmark with a reported decapitation","required_next_work":["old-source chain","contemporaneous records","exposure routes","complete denominator","alternative matching"]}
  ],
  "reserve_candidates": [
    {"id":"R-B01","case":"Gnanathilaka Baddevithana","disposition":"RESERVE","method_value":"2024 comparison of two investigations with reported written and taped pre-verification records","required_next_work":["both investigators' materials","independence test","agreement test","custody audit"]},
    {"id":"R-B02","case":"Battleship Yamato case","disposition":"RESERVE","method_value":"2022 report of written records made before verification","required_next_work":["exact primary paper","translation audit","complete record set","exposure analysis","comparison pool"]}
  ],
  "sources": [
    {"title":"The Composition of Ian Stevenson’s Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation","year":2024,"url":"https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/3215/2177"},
    {"title":"The Case of James Leininger: An American Case of the Reincarnation Type","year":2016,"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27079216/"},
    {"title":"The James Leininger Case Re-Examined","year":2021,"url":"https://michaelsudduth.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/JSE-354-Sudduth-FINAL.pdf"},
    {"title":"Gnanathilaka Baddevithana’s Reincarnation Case in Review","year":2024,"url":"https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/2879"},
    {"title":"Academic studies on claimed past-life memories: A scoping review","year":2021,"url":"https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2021/12/Academic-Studies-on-Claimed-Past-life-memories-A-scoping-Review-Jim-2021-1-s2.0-S1550830721000951-main-1.pdf"}
  ],
  "promotion_rule": "No candidate can enter the frozen six-case audit retrospectively. Admission requires a new versioned protocol and disclosed cohort change."
}