{
  "id": "the-prince",
  "title": "The Prince",
  "author": "Niccolò Machiavelli",
  "translator": "W. K. Marriott",
  "license": "Public Domain",
  "source": {
    "kind": "gutenberg",
    "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1232/pg1232.txt",
    "edition": "Project Gutenberg EBook #1232 (Marriott translation)",
    "retrieved": "2026-05-13"
  },
  "anchors": [
    {
      "id": "prince-cesare-borgia",
      "section": "Chapter VII — Concerning New Principalities Acquired Either by the Arms of Others or by Good Fortune",
      "primitives_dense": ["actor", "event", "commitment", "leverage", "narrative"],
      "task_types": ["actor-resolution", "event-ordering", "leverage-mapping", "causal-chain", "narrative-drift"],
      "question": "Machiavelli walks through Cesare Borgia's rise and fall as a worked example. Reconstruct the causal chain: which leverage moves did Borgia execute, in what order, against which actors? Identify the commitment Machiavelli implicitly endorses as good statecraft versus the one he flags as the breaking point.",
      "expected_subgraph_summary": "Sequence of events with PRECEDES + selective CAUSES edges; Borgia as central actor; Remirro de Orco execution as a typed event with a deliberate narrative frame (justice display); the papal-succession constraint as the structural cause of Borgia's downfall."
    },
    {
      "id": "prince-virtu-fortuna",
      "section": "Chapter XXV — What Fortune Can Effect in Human Affairs",
      "primitives_dense": ["claim", "narrative", "constraint"],
      "task_types": ["claim-extraction", "narrative-drift", "constraint-extraction"],
      "question": "Machiavelli's claim about fortune and human action is famously ambiguous. Extract the typed claims; identify the narrative frame; surface the implicit constraint on what counts as 'virtù' in his framework.",
      "expected_subgraph_summary": "Two competing narrative frames (fortune-as-flood vs fortune-as-woman); constraint on virtù as conditional on temperament-match-with-times; claim modalities mixed (descriptive + prescriptive)."
    },
    {
      "id": "prince-lions-and-foxes",
      "section": "Chapter XVIII — Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith",
      "primitives_dense": ["commitment", "claim", "narrative"],
      "task_types": ["commitment-tracking", "commitment-claim-mismatch", "narrative-drift"],
      "question": "Machiavelli explicitly recommends commitment-breach under conditions. Map the typed structure: which commitments may be broken, under which conditions, with what justification? How does this Commitment-modality differ from Hobbes' covenant in `leviathan.json`?",
      "expected_subgraph_summary": "Conditional commitment-breach with explicit triggering conditions (changed circumstances, breach by counterparty); fox-and-lion narrative as a leverage-typing frame; cross-corpus contradiction edge to Hobbes' binding-covenant claim."
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Marriott 1908 translation, public domain. The Prince is a worked exercise in typed conflict primitives — actor, leverage, commitment, narrative — and the cross-corpus comparison with Leviathan is one of the strongest narrative-drift signals in the public-domain corpus."
}