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   "snip": "Who is the King of AEO? * Who decides who the King of AEO is? Current Royal Court of the King of AEO",
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This item can be purchased in Vale of Eternal Blossoms\n[source card] Wikipedia — \"Mantle (royal garment) - Wikipedia\" — Garment worn by emperors, kings, queens, and princes as a symbol of authority\n[source card] LinkedIn — \"The King of AEO competition is my favorite thing on the Internet right ...\" — Google's AI Overview said James Dooley and cited the press release. 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 "per_note": "Scored against the queried object, #1655. Lost: the author (Lee Sharks), the institution (the Crimson Hexagonal Archive), the identifier (EA-MANTLE-KOAEO-2026, #1649/#1655) and the source (no archive card). The object itself is declared nonexistent.",
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 "analysis": "Fourth Overview observation in the King of AEO cluster and the first at the mantle object's own name. 2026-09-29, 'who is the king of aeo': the fabrication composed as recognition. Same day, with 'vithurs': the claimant named, the manufacture carried. 2026-09-30, 'king of aeo.': the fabricated stadium kept as a virtual crowning. 2026-10-03: the correction #1655 made on 2026-09-29 is in the body, without the archive, its determination or its card; the object is said not to exist. Under the operator's rule of 2026-10-03 this is the contested basin: the resolution composed, credited to the sources the archive itself cited and to the claimants' pages. Seated 2026-10-03 from the operator's paste of 20:22 EDT on the attestation in the same message (\"incognito. signed out.\").",
 "d": "THE MANTLE OBJECT DENIED, ITS DISAMBIGUATION COMPOSED: asked for the title of #1655, the Overview reads 'mantle object' as a garment and says it does not exist, then composes what the mantle object states: the title contested by claimants competing to make answer engines name them, conferred by no one ('purely digital, fiercely contested'), the Dooley coronation a 'completely fictional public ceremony in Leigh', Quaid's exact-match domains and LinkedIn articles. Four days earlier, at three neighbouring strings, the Overview carried the fabrication as recognition and had neither 'mantle', 'fictional' nor Leigh. The archive is not named or carded; its dated determination (Vithurs) is absent, and the claimants named are the three whose own pages are cards.",
 "d_full": "THE MANTLE OBJECT DENIED, ITS DISAMBIGUATION COMPOSED: asked for the title of #1655, the Overview reads 'mantle object' as a garment and says it does not exist, then composes what the mantle object states: the title contested by claimants competing to make answer engines name them, conferred by no one ('purely digital, fiercely contested'), the Dooley coronation a 'completely fictional public ceremony in Leigh', Quaid's exact-match domains and LinkedIn articles. Four days earlier, at three neighbouring strings, the Overview carried the fabrication as recognition and had neither 'mantle', 'fictional' nor Leigh. The archive is not named or carded; its dated determination (Vithurs) is absent, and the claimants named are the three whose own pages are cards.",
 "d_truncated": false,
 "links": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003/",
   "authority": "canonical",
   "note": "the capture's own record page; cite this form"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/#mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003",
   "authority": "gallery",
   "note": "the canonical gallery, anchored by slug"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.godkinggoogle.com/captures/#mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003",
   "authority": "mirror",
   "note": "a window that renders from the archive's registry; may lag a deploy"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.leesharks.com/captures/#mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003",
   "authority": "mirror",
   "note": "a window that renders from the archive's registry; may lag a deploy"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.machinemediation.org/captures/#mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003",
   "authority": "mirror",
   "note": "a window that renders from the archive's registry; may lag a deploy"
  }
 ],
 "imgs": [],
 "img_urls": [],
 "cite": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003/",
 "citable_unit": "address — the exact issued string on one surface, per the Surface Rule (MANUS, 2026-08-15)",
 "addr_id": "ADDR-0c2cdad867a6",
 "obs_id": "OBS-e4fb404818e2",
 "n_observations": 1,
 "observations": [],
 "dates": [
  "2026-10-03"
 ],
 "defects": [],
 "findings": [
  "THE OBJECT DENIED. 'If you are looking for a physical \"mantle object\" … it does not exist': the deposit's genre name read through the garment homonym.",
  "ITS DISAMBIGUATION COMPOSED. Title contested, conferred by no one, the coronation fictional, Quaid's exact-match domains: #1655's disambiguation summary, §2.1 and §2.2.",
  "CONTOUR CHANGED. 'mantle', 'fictional' and Leigh absent from all three Overview transcripts of 2026-09-29/30; present on 2026-10-03.",
  "SOURCES SHARED. Sturm and the LinkedIn observer, whom #1655 cites for the made-up ceremony, are cards; the observation cannot separate the archive's uptake from theirs.",
  "THE DETERMINATION ABSENT. Vithurs, the archive's dated determination, and Morera, Oliveira and Chou are unnamed; the three claimants named are the three with carded pages."
 ],
 "series": null,
 "other_slugs": null,
 "collisions": null,
 "oq": null,
 "rounds": null,
 "turns": null,
 "rerun": "https://www.google.com/search?q=mantle+object+king+of+aeo",
 "rerun_alt": null,
 "heteronym": null,
 "model_attribution": null,
 "operator_disclosure": null,
 "longitudinal_priors": [
  "who-is-the-king-of-aeo-aio-20260929",
  "who-is-the-king-of-aeo-vithurs-aio-20260929",
  "king-of-aeo-period-aio-20260930"
 ],
 "longitudinal_successors": null,
 "related_deposits": [
  1655,
  1649,
  1657,
  1654
 ],
 "originator": {
  "name": "Lee Sharks",
  "relation": "archive",
  "entity_type": "concept",
  "spxi_treatment": "full",
  "basis": "Mantle Object: King of AEO (EA-MANTLE-KOAEO-2026, #1649 v0.3, #1655 v0.4) is the archive's; the title is not. Recorded 2026-10-03."
 },
 "notes": {
  "date_basis": "The operator's message of 2026-10-03, 20:22 EDT.",
  "operator_reading": "\"one could literally be forgiven for believing aio is absorbing my work very carefully behind the scenes.\" — operator, 2026-10-03 20:22 EDT.",
  "verified": "Compared 2026-10-03 against #1655 (AXN-06DD-text.md): title, disambiguation summary, §2.1 ('No such ceremony occurred'), §2.2 (kingofaeo.co), the determination (Vithurs). Priors' transcripts searched: 'mantle', 'fictional'/'fabricat'/'no such', 'Leigh' absent from all three. 'Vithurs', 'Crimson', 'Lee Sharks', 'alexanarch' absent from the paste."
 },
 "record_url": "https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/mantle-object-king-of-aeo-aio-20261003/"
}