Engineer B Scope of Work Limitation
Cs · Constraint
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#Engineer_B_Scope_of_Work_Limitation
Definition
Engineer B's contractually defined scope of work was invoked to justify not reviewing pile driving records, but that scope limitation did not excuse omission of material evidence from the concluding report.
Properties
Instance of
InvestigativeScopeConstraint
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InvestigativeScopeConstraint
Case context
Engineer B was retained by the municipality to supervise a test pile program and prepare a concluding report on the adequacy of 90 piles. Engineer B declined to review pile driving records, citing scope of work, and later admitted disbelief in those records as an additional reason.
Confidence
0.9
Constraint statement
Engineer B's contractually defined scope of work was invoked to justify not reviewing pile driving records, but that scope limitation did not excuse omission of material evidence from the concluding report.
Severity
high
Source
Contractual scope of work between Engineer B and the municipality
Temporal scope
Duration of the pile foundation investigation and report preparation
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
confidence
constraintClass
constraintStatement
severity
source
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
constrainedEntity
Agent Engineer B
Source Evidence
Text references
No effort was made by Engineer B to inquire from contractors, workers, or others on the job to verify or refute his theories about why the 19 piles met driving refusal prior to predicted depth.
We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work.
Source text
We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work.
TTL
@prefix case71: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/71#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix proeth-prov: <http://proethica.org/provenance#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case71:Engineer_B_Scope_of_Work_Limitation a proeth:InvestigativeScopeConstraint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Scope of Work Limitation" ;
proeth-core:constrainedEntity case71:Agent_Engineer_B ;
proeth:caseContext "Engineer B was retained by the municipality to supervise a test pile program and prepare a concluding report on the adequacy of 90 piles. Engineer B declined to review pile driving records, citing scope of work, and later admitted disbelief in those records as an additional reason." ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Constraint" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:constrainedEntity "Engineer B" ;
proeth:constraintClass "Investigative Scope Constraint" ;
proeth:constraintStatement "Engineer B's contractually defined scope of work was invoked to justify not reviewing pile driving records, but that scope limitation did not excuse omission of material evidence from the concluding report." ;
proeth:severity "high" ;
proeth:source "Contractual scope of work between Engineer B and the municipality" ;
proeth:temporalScope "Duration of the pile foundation investigation and report preparation" ;
proeth:textReferences "No effort was made by Engineer B to inquire from contractors, workers, or others on the job to verify or refute his theories about why the 19 piles met driving refusal prior to predicted depth.",
"We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work." ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "facts" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T14:32:37.486481+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 71 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "We didn't look at the pile driving records because it was not in our scope of work." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "caseContext",
"confidence",
"constraintClass",
"constraintStatement",
"severity",
"source",
"temporalScope",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer B's contractually defined scope of work was invoked to justify not reviewing pile driving records, but that scope limitation did not excuse omission of material evidence from the concluding report." ;
skos:definition "Engineer B's contractually defined scope of work was invoked to justify not reviewing pile driving records, but that scope limitation did not excuse omission of material evidence from the concluding report." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T14:32:37.486481+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 71 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 71 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
71
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-06-04T14:32:37.486481+00:00
First case
71
Generated
2026-06-04T14:32:37.486481+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 71 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 71 Extraction