need to know

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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An administrative action officially declaring a particular individual requires access to specified sensitive or classified information in order to perform their assigned duties.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

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Sensitivity

Regulated90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Cui75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

8 surface forms

synonym: need-to-know
alternatephrasing: Need-To-Know
plural: need to knowsNeed-To-Knows
possessive: need to know'sNeed-To-Know's
pluralpossessive: need to knows'Need-To-Knows'

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