The source

Where the belief in this competence comes from.

The part

What it is

A candidate proposed because customers keep saying it is different from one proposed because leadership has always said it.

Recording the source early makes the later evidence stage faster, and it flags the candidates most likely to fail it.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Source
Customer feedback, competitive win analysis, internal belief or founder narrative.
Source shared type
Confidence
How strongly held the belief is before any testing — worth capturing, because it predicts resistance.
Confidence shared type