SIE.4:1 - Problem Frame

Use this when two or more governed sources contain concepts, types, relations, fields, codes, model elements, or claims that appear to match and a receiving use needs their relation made explicit. Typical triggers are a shared label, a crosswalk, an automated matcher result, a spreadsheet of “equivalences”, or a model-to-model mapping whose semantic premise has never been judged.

The primary EntityOfConcern is one use-qualified cross-source correspondence row. The first move is to recover both endpoint senses and ask which direct relation, difference, or incompatibility is actually supported. The first result is a set that preserves accepted, rejected, unresolved, and incompatible rows rather than forcing every candidate into an equivalence.

The payoff is a defensible semantic premise for identity work, claim composition, executable mappings, and validation. Do not use SIE.4 to construct a missing semantic model, decide cross-source identity, define transformation code, or choose the authoritative value. A local relation inside one governed source remains with its source owner unless the cross-source use makes it an integration premise.