{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "ngang",
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "names": {
  "th": "งั่ง",
  "roman": "ngang",
  "en": "Ngang",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "พระงั่ง"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "phra ngang"
   ],
   "en": [
    "Phra Ngang"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": null,
  "functions": [],
  "materials": [
   "nuea_loha"
  ],
  "figures": []
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "figure",
  "shape_th": "รูปหล่อนั่ง สวมชฎายอดแหลม ตาฝังพลอยสีแดง",
  "shape_en": "A small seated cast figure in a tall pointed crown, the eyes set with red stones",
  "notes_en": "Form read off the two pieces photographed here (bronze and gilt), not from a survey of the type."
 },
 "text": {
  "what_th": "งั่ง ผีชั้นต่ำ โปรดการพนันและความบันเทิง",
  "what_en": "Ngang: a low spirit who favors gambling and entertainment."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:field-nan",
  "s:vault-classes"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "field",
   "source": "s:field-nan"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "field",
    "source": "s:field-nan",
    "note": "class left null: the vault's class vocabulary does not place it"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "low",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-28",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": null,
  "term": "ยังไม่ชี้ขาด",
  "en": "left to a knower",
  "resident": null,
  "upkeep": null,
  "provenance_sensitivity": null,
  "definition": "The vault vocabulary does not place this kind; the refusal is recorded, not papered over."
 },
 "function_terms": [],
 "material_terms": [
  {
   "key": "nuea_loha",
   "term": "เนื้อโลหะ",
   "roman": "nuea loha",
   "en": "metal (unspecified)",
   "definition": "Metal, unspecified. Common in listings precisely because it commits to nothing. Recorded as its own term rather than resolved, because the vagueness is itself the datum — a seller who can name the alloy usually does."
  }
 ],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": null,
 "primary_image": null,
 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}