export interface CategoryDefinition {
    label: string;
    description: string;
    types: ReadonlyArray<string>;
}
type CategoryKey = 'lifecycle' | 'hierarchical' | 'associative' | 'comparative' | 'spatiotemporal' | 'lexical' | 'mapping' | 'definitional';
/**
 * Each type in RELATIONSHIP_TYPES belongs to exactly one category. The
 * categories mirror the concept-model taxonomy. Adding a new type
 * means adding a taxonomy entry — no code changes here.
 */
export declare const RELATION_CATEGORIES: Readonly<Record<CategoryKey, CategoryDefinition>>;
/**
 * Returns the category key for the given relationship type, or null
 * when the type is not categorized.
 */
export declare function categoryOf(type: string): string | null;
/**
 * Returns the category definition for the given category key.
 * Accepts both canonical names (definitional) and aliases from
 * earlier glossarist-js versions.
 */
export declare function categoryDefinition(categoryKey: string): CategoryDefinition | null;
/**
 * MECE sanity check. Returns the list of relationship types that are
 * NOT categorized.
 */
export declare function uncategorizedTypes(): string[];
/**
 * MECE sanity check. Returns a list of { type, count } entries for any
 * type that appears in MORE than one category.
 */
export declare function duplicatedTypes(): ReadonlyArray<{
    type: string;
    count: number;
}>;
export { RELATION_CATEGORIES as RELATION_CATEGORIES_READONLY, type CategoryKey as RelationCategoryKey, };
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