CODEBOOK.md

AdiletCodex - Codebook

One record = one article of one document in one language. Files: adiletcodex.jsonl (nested fields kept) and adiletcodex.csv (flat; nested fields omitted).

Identity & language

Field	Type	Description
doc_id	string	adilet NGR of the document (same id across languages), e.g. K1400000226
doc_type	string	code or law
slug	string|null	short mnemonic for codes (e.g. criminal), null for laws
lang	string	rus (Russian), kaz (Kazakh), eng (English)
title	string	document title in this language
url	string	canonical adilet URL

Document metadata (from the adilet requisites page)

The adilet document "passport" is published in Russian only. In v2.0 several passport fields are localized to the row's lang; each keeps an *_ru companion with the original Russian value for provenance. Russian (rus) rows keep the Russian value in the field itself. Two localization methods are used, and they are not equivalent in authority:

• curated term map - hand-reviewed official translations (act_form, adopting_organ, database_section);
• reference metadata (machine-translated) - translated by local Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (thinking disabled) for convenience (filtering / search), not authoritative, with the original Russian kept in the *_ru companion (legal_sphere, publication_reference); the Kazakh output uses correct Kazakh legal terminology. The substantive text (article_text, title, etc.) is the official adilet translation, not machine translation.

Fields still marked Russian-by-source are not translated at all.

Field	Type	Language	Description
status	string	per-language	e.g. upd (updated / in force). Use this for validity / in-force state.
act_form	string	localized (curated)	form of act, localized to lang: EN Code/Law/Constitution/Constitutional Law; KK Кодекс/Заң/Конституция/Конституциялық заң; RU Кодекс/Закон/Конституция/Конституционный закон (RU may include amendment-noise values).
act_form_ru	string	Russian source	original Russian act_form from the adilet card, kept on every row for provenance (v2.0).
legal_sphere	string	reference metadata (machine-translated)	subject area / legal-relations sphere; local Qwen3.5-122B-A10B MT (254 unique values), convenience only.
legal_sphere_ru	string	Russian source	original Russian legal_sphere, kept on every row for provenance (v2.0).
database_section	string	localized (curated)	adilet database section (thematic classifier), 35 fixed sections; curated EN/KK map.
database_section_ru	string	Russian source	original Russian database_section, kept on every row for provenance (v2.0).
adopting_organ	string|null	localized (curated)	body that adopted the act (Parliament / President, with former-name notes); curated EN/KK map.
adopting_organ_ru	string|null	Russian source	original Russian adopting_organ, kept on every row for provenance (v2.0).
state_registry_number	string	-	number in the State Register of NLAs
npa_registration_number	string	-	act's own number, e.g. 226-v
adoption_date	string	-	dd.mm.yyyy
change_date	string|null	-	date of last amendment (null if never amended)
publication_date	string|null	-	official publication date
publication_reference	string	reference metadata (machine-translated)	official publication source(s); local Qwen3.5-122B-A10B MT (333 unique values) with a digit/date/number-preservation check (Russian kept on mismatch), convenience only.
publication_reference_ru	string	Russian source	original Russian publication_reference, kept on every row for provenance (v2.0).
adoption_place	string	Russian-by-source	e.g. г. Астана
region_action	string	Russian-by-source	territorial scope
citation	string	per-language	human-readable source citation of the act (e.g. Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 20 June, 2003 № 442); doc_date / doc_number are parsed from it.
doc_date, doc_number	string|null	-	adoption date (ISO yyyy-mm-dd) / number parsed from citation

Removed in v2.0: legal_force. It duplicated act_form in 323/343 documents and was mislabeled - it was never a validity indicator. Use status for validity and act_form for the type of act. See ../CHANGELOG.md.

Structural hierarchy & article

Field	Type	Description
part	string|null	top level (e.g. ОБЩАЯ ЧАСТЬ / SPECIAL PART / Жалпы бөлік)
section	string|null	Раздел / N-бөлім / Section
chapter	string|null	Глава / N-тарау / Chapter
article_id	string|null	internal HTML anchor id
article_no	string|null	article number (e.g. 99, inserts like 50-1)
article_title	string	full article heading
article_text	string	full article body (concatenated points)
paragraphs	list	numbered points: {id, number, text, links} (JSONL only)
notes	list	amendment/editorial footnotes: {text, links} (JSONL only)
links	list	article-level hyperlinks (JSONL only)

Notes

• Languages align by (doc_id, article_no). A document keeps the same doc_id across languages.
• Gaps in article_no within a document correspond to repealed articles.
• English exists for most but not all documents (adilet does not translate everything): 296 of 343 documents are present in all three languages, 37 in Kazakh+Russian, 5 in Kazakh only, 3 in Russian only, 2 in Kazakh+English.
• adopting_organ / adopting_organ_ru are null for 288 records (documents whose adilet card lists no adopting body); publication_reference / publication_reference_ru are empty for 127 records (documents with no publication source recorded).

Known limitations

• Same-number articles: fixed in v2.0. The v1.1 pre-release audit found 19 (doc_id, lang, article_no) groups with more than one record, from three causes: (a) a displayed number that recurs across structural parts; (b) entry-into-force / amendment clauses inside "Final and transitional provisions" (or enactment) articles that the parser emitted as separate records (their article_title was a clause fragment, e.g. article 38;); and (c) compound inserted numbers (e.g. Article 15-24) whose article_no had been truncated to the base number (15). All 19 were repaired in v2.0 without dropping any wording: (c) was fixed by restoring the full article_no (confirmed against the aligned Kazakh/Russian rows); (b) and the stale same-language duplicates were merged back into the correct parent article and the empty fragment removed. After the fix article_no is unique within every (doc_id, lang) group - 0 duplicate keys remain. See ../CHANGELOG.md and ../localization/fix_duplicate_articles.py.
• Reference-metadata fields are machine translation. legal_sphere and publication_reference (and only these) are translated by a local LLM for filtering/search convenience and are not authoritative; the original Russian is always kept in the *_ru companion column. The substantive article content (title, status, article_title, article_text) is the official adilet.zan.kz translation.