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  "id": "grand-theft-auto",
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      "id": "3d",
      "label": "3D universe",
      "note": "Vice City Stories → Vice City → The Introduction / San Andreas → Liberty City Stories → Advance → III. Different editions retell the same events."
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    {
      "id": "hd",
      "label": "HD universe",
      "note": "IV and its two episodes overlap in 2008; Chinatown Wars follows in 2009. Online begins before V, then advances beyond it. Later Online arcs without a verified year are explicitly unplaced."
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    {
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      "label": "2D universe",
      "note": "London 1961 precedes London 1969. The first GTA’s contemporary period and GTA2’s contradictory calendar claims stay qualified."
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    {
      "id": "promo",
      "label": "Promotional / screen variants",
      "note": "Official narrative marketing is retained. Real-world documentaries and fan machinima are not game-history events."
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      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Victor Vance’s rise in Vice City.",
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      "date": "1986",
      "order": 1986,
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      "release": "2002",
      "description": "Tommy Vercetti builds a criminal empire.",
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      "railLabel": "1986",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
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      "type": "Game",
      "date": "1992",
      "order": 1992,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2004",
      "description": "Carl Johnson returns to Los Santos.",
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      "date": "1998",
      "order": 1998,
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      "release": "2005",
      "description": "Toni Cipriani returns to the Leone family.",
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      "railLabel": "1998",
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      "date": "2000; roughly one year before III",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2004",
      "description": "Mike investigates a betrayal in Liberty City.",
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      "date": "2001",
      "order": 2001,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2001",
      "description": "Claude’s revenge after the opening robbery.",
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      "title": "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas — The Introduction",
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      "date": "1992; immediately before San Andreas",
      "order": 1991.99,
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      "release": "2004",
      "description": "The events that bring Carl back to Los Santos.",
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      "estimated": false,
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      "order": 1961,
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      "release": "1999",
      "description": "A second London mission-pack adventure.",
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      "date": "1969",
      "order": 1969,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "The first London mission-pack crime story.",
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      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. late 1990s; contemporary setting",
      "order": 1997,
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        "dates"
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      "title": "Grand Theft Auto 2",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Anywhere City’s near future; exact year disputed",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "Claude Speed works through the city’s gang conflicts.",
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      "date": "2008",
      "order": 2008,
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      "description": "Niko Bellic arrives in Liberty City.",
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      "description": "Johnny Klebitz’s biker story.",
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      "date": "2004",
      "order": 2004,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
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      "description": "Michael, Franklin and Trevor’s intersecting heists.",
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      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2015",
      "description": "Lester’s heists and Trevor’s Series A job.",
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      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "gta-online-oscar-guzman-flies-again",
      "title": "GTA Online: Oscar Guzman Flies Again",
      "type": "Game update",
      "date": "Later Online era; exact year unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Oscar Guzman’s arms-trafficking mission run.",
      "note": "Mission run grouped at its known story relationship. Listed under unresolved placement until calendar / cross-arc order is verified; sorting by release is available separately. Later Online content does not automatically occur in its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "online",
        "onlinehistory"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "gta-online-money-fronts",
      "title": "GTA Online: Money Fronts",
      "type": "Game update",
      "date": "Later Online era; exact year unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Mr. Faber, Raf De Angelis and money-laundering fronts.",
      "note": "Mission run grouped at its known story relationship. Listed under unresolved placement until calendar / cross-arc order is verified; sorting by release is available separately. Later Online content does not automatically occur in its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "online",
        "onlinehistory"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "gta-online-a-safehouse-in-the-hills-knoway-out-mission-run",
      "title": "GTA Online: A Safehouse in the Hills — KnoWay Out mission run",
      "type": "Game update",
      "date": "After V; Michael’s later life, exact year unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025",
      "description": "Mansions and a struggle against a surveillance network.",
      "note": "Mission run grouped at its known story relationship. Listed under unresolved placement until calendar / cross-arc order is verified; sorting by release is available separately. Later Online content does not automatically occur in its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "online",
        "onlinehistory",
        "safe"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "gta-online-the-kortz-center-heist-preparations-finale",
      "title": "GTA Online: The Kortz Center Heist — preparations & finale",
      "type": "Game update",
      "date": "After the mansion / Art Studio introduction; year unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-07-14",
      "description": "Raf De Angelis’s art theft.",
      "note": "Mission run grouped at its known story relationship. Listed under unresolved placement until calendar / cross-arc order is verified; sorting by release is available separately. Later Online content does not automatically occur in its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "online",
        "onlinehistory",
        "kortz",
        "update173"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "gta-online-seasonal-supernatural-encounters-ghosts-exposed-ufo-slasher-events",
      "title": "GTA Online: seasonal supernatural encounters — Ghosts Exposed / UFO / slasher events",
      "type": "Game events",
      "date": "Online seasonal scenarios; calendar fit unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2015–2026",
      "description": "Official ghost, UFO and slasher encounters.",
      "note": "Repeated annual availability is not a newly dated event every year. Canon and mission-level supernatural chronology need script inspection. October 2026 Ghosts Exposed changes checked.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "update173",
        "onlinehistory"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WC3DX9Q",
      "productName": "Grand Theft Auto V — PlayStation 5",
      "productMatch": "Containing base game and access to the corresponding GTA Online platform. Story updates have no separate physical edition. Online requires a supported platform / network access; purchases and subscriptions may apply.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "grand-theft-auto-vi",
      "title": "Grand Theft Auto VI",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Modern Leonida / Vice City; fictional year unconfirmed",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-11-19 (scheduled)",
      "description": "Jason and Lucia’s Leonida story.",
      "note": "Upcoming at the October 7 cut-off. Promotional premise is indexed; unreleased full story cannot be audited. No 2026 fictional date inferred from launch.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "vi"
      ],
      "continuity": "hd",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Official product / release page. An exact Amazon edition is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "upcoming": true
    },
    {
      "id": "grand-theft-auto-2-the-movie",
      "title": "Grand Theft Auto 2: The Movie",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "Claude Speed screen variant; year / game placement unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "An eight-minute live-action crime vignette made for GTA2.",
      "note": "Official narrative promotion, not a feature-film adaptation or evidence settling GTA2’s conflicting years. Full authorized viewing URL remains unverified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gta2"
      ],
      "continuity": "promo",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_2",
      "productName": "View film / access record",
      "productMatch": "This is an access record, not a promise of a playable official upload.",
      "actionLabel": "View film / access record"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "north",
      "title": "Rockstar North: game / character catalogue",
      "url": "https://www.rockstarnorth.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "universes",
      "title": "Rockstar: III questions answered — universe separation",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/51974aa3a99a59/grand-theft-auto-iii-your-questions-answered-part-one-claude-dar.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rockstar distinguishes III’s world from IV’s. Shared brands / radio personalities do not merge histories. Newswire body may require JavaScript."
    },
    {
      "id": "bibliography",
      "title": "Grand Theft Auto series / release inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "dates",
      "title": "Grand Theft Wiki: series chronology references",
      "url": "https://www.grandtheftwiki.com/Timeline",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Used for explicitly qualified story-year anchors, not as evidence that every prop / mission has been inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "gta2",
      "title": "GTA2: contradictory calendar / short-film inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_2",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "intro",
      "title": "Rockstar: San Andreas — The Introduction",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/videos/36cra2or",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official complete narrative video, released as a soundtrack / special-edition DVD prequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "introtext",
      "title": "The Introduction: transcript cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.gta-sanandreas.com/guides/introduction/",
      "kind": "Secondary transcript",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "online",
      "title": "Rockstar: GTA Online official catalogue",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/gta-online",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "onlinehistory",
      "title": "GTA Online story expansion inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_Online",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Update release years are cataloguing metadata. They are not silently used as fictional dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "gun",
      "title": "Rockstar: Gunrunning title update 1.40",
      "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/6ZJ3TjYuuTi0Qgo6ULz61P/gtav-title-update-1-40-notes-ps4-xbox-one-pc",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "safe",
      "title": "Rockstar: A Safehouse in the Hills",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/gta-online/contact-missions/a-safehouse-in-the-hills",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "kortz",
      "title": "Rockstar: The Kortz Center Heist release",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/newswire/article/2525o93834o413/the-kortz-center-heist-now-available-in-gta-online",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "update173",
      "title": "Rockstar: 1.73 story / Halloween update notes",
      "url": "https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/4vRqEDvjUs9h7nqRUgc8YO/gtav-title-update-1-73-notes-ps5-ps4-xbox-series-x-or-s-xbox-one-pc-enhanced-legacy",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Heist preparation / finale and updated Ghosts Exposed locations verified through October 1, 2026."
    },
    {
      "id": "vi",
      "title": "Rockstar: Grand Theft Auto VI",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/VI",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Upcoming November 19, 2026 at this research cut-off. The release date does not establish a fictional year."
    },
    {
      "id": "trilogy",
      "title": "Rockstar: The Trilogy — Definitive Edition",
      "url": "https://www.rockstargames.com/GTATrilogy",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "trilogyproduct",
      "title": "Trilogy Switch edition ASIN cross-check",
      "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/19450257-19-99-grand-theft-auto-the-trilogy-definitive-edition-nintendo-switch-at-amazon",
      "kind": "Retail cross-check",
      "note": "B0FK6N3H12 identifies a Switch collection of III, Vice City and San Andreas. No price or stock assertion."
    },
    {
      "id": "ivproduct",
      "title": "IV Complete Edition PS3 identifier cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.cheapassgamer.com/threads/gta-iv-complete-19-99-ps3-only-amazon-fsss.304051/",
      "kind": "Retail cross-check",
      "note": "B0045U01OG contains IV and Episodes from Liberty City."
    },
    {
      "id": "vproduct",
      "title": "GTA V PS5 physical edition record",
      "url": "https://www.pricecharting.com/game/playstation-5/grand-theft-auto-v",
      "kind": "Retail cross-check",
      "note": "B09WC3DX9Q; console edition and active Online platform support must be checked before purchase."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Epsilon, cult websites, printed manuals and in-game radio / TV",
      "type": "Embedded / promotional fiction",
      "status": "Original story audit open",
      "note": "The Epsilon Tract and fictional broadcasts are narrative material inside / alongside the games. Separate story inventory and website-version dates still need inspection; they are not replaced by non-fiction guides.",
      "sources": [
        "online",
        "bibliography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Sunday Driver; The Gamechangers; Ron Howard’s Grand Theft Auto; fan machinima",
      "type": "Non-fiction / unrelated / fan media",
      "status": "Excluded from licensed fictional game chronology",
      "note": "Sunday Driver is a Rockstar car-culture documentary. The Gamechangers dramatizes real development history. The unrelated 1977 film and unauthorized fan stories are not GTA game-universe entries.",
      "sources": [
        "bibliography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Collections, ports, trailers, music albums and gameplay-only updates",
      "type": "Editions / non-narrative material",
      "status": "No duplicated story entries",
      "note": "Trilogy, Double Pack, Episodes collections and ports contain existing stories. Standalone music / vehicles / races are not additional narrative events; story-bearing mission updates are retained.",
      "sources": [
        "trilogy",
        "onlinehistory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "All distinct released GTA game titles and both IV story expansions accounted for; London 1961 precedes 1969.",
      "3D and HD universes separated using Rockstar’s statement. GTA2’s 1999 / 2013 conflict is explicit.",
      "The Introduction uses a complete official viewing link. IV episodes retain their overlapping 2008 setting.",
      "Online story-bearing update runs inventoried through Kortz Center and October 2026 seasonal content; update years are not fictional dates.",
      "GTA VI is marked upcoming, not misrepresented as a completed story audit.",
      "Pre-build table reviewed for duplicate titles, continuity conflicts, unsupported release-year dates and product / collection mismatches. Open coverage and inaccessible interiors remain listed."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full mission-script / frame audit, Online cross-arc ordering and obscure printed / promotional narratives remain open.",
      "Some older game Amazon editions and GTA2’s authorized full-film viewing link are not verified.",
      "Each seasonal encounter, radio / TV narrative and Epsilon website story requires a finer inventory before exhaustive coverage can be claimed."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}