{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.benefactor","code":"thing-benefactor","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/benefactor/","name":"benefactor","alternateNames":["helper","benefactress","bondsperson","emancipator","manumitter","fairy godmother","good Samaritan","liberator","obliger","accommodator","offerer","offeror"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.4","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"noun.person","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.PER"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"social","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"In the WordNet sense, a person who helps people or institutions, especially with financial help, also called a helper, with female forms such as benefactress and figurative figures such as the fairy godmother, and with related historical roles the registry aliases name such as emancipators and manumitters, who freed enslaved people; the alias bondsperson usually means an enslaved person or a bail guarantor and does not fit this sense.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the benefactor concept, relay usage, philanthropy and historical manumission from dictionaries and history sources, describe the named terms and flag the misfit alias, and distinguish benefactors from donors, patrons, sponsors and philanthropic foundations.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Helping role","Often financial","Recognition customs","Figurative uses"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What a benefactor is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is a benefactor, and how does the role differ from donors, patrons, sponsors and foundations?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Is the question about language, philanthropy, history or someone offering money, which may need scam caution?","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"terms","name":"Terms","description":"Named terms.","findings":[{"id":"terms-finding","name":"Terms","description":"Terms.","questions":[{"text":"What do helper, benefactress, emancipator, manumitter and fairy godmother mean, and why does bondsperson not fit?","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which entry fits the specific term?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"philanthropy","name":"Philanthropy","description":"Philanthropy.","layers":[{"id":"giving","name":"Giving","description":"Giving.","findings":[{"id":"giving-finding","name":"Giving","description":"Giving.","questions":[{"text":"How do benefactors support institutions such as universities and hospitals?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which references are standard?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"debates","name":"Debates","description":"Debates.","findings":[{"id":"debates-finding","name":"Debates","description":"Debates.","questions":[{"text":"What critiques exist of large-scale philanthropy, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"history","name":"History","description":"Manumission.","layers":[{"id":"manumission","name":"Manumission","description":"Manumission.","findings":[{"id":"manumission-finding","name":"Manumission","description":"Manumission.","questions":[{"text":"What was manumission, and how did it differ from abolition?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"emancipation","name":"Emancipation","description":"Emancipation.","findings":[{"id":"emancipation-finding","name":"Emancipation","description":"Emancipation.","questions":[{"text":"How do historians avoid portraying emancipation only as benevolence by enslavers?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits abolitionism?","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Culture and safety.","layers":[{"id":"stories","name":"Stories","description":"Fairy godmothers.","findings":[{"id":"stories-finding","name":"Stories","description":"Stories.","questions":[{"text":"How are benefactor figures used in fairy tales and fiction?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits fairy godmother?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"scams","name":"Scams","description":"Benefactor scams.","findings":[{"id":"scams-finding","name":"Scams","description":"Scams.","questions":[{"text":"How do advance-fee scams pose as mysterious benefactors, and how can people report them?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits advance-fee scam?","kind":"action"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Record and acknowledge benefactors as they have agreed to be named.","Report public information about donations from official sources."],"mustNot":["Reveal an anonymous benefactor's identity.","Solicit gifts from vulnerable people through pressure or false promises.","Hide conditions or influence attached to a benefaction.","Present a person as a benefactor of a cause they did not support."],"requiresHuman":["Accepting or declining a gift with conditions on behalf of an institution."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Giving can buy influence, so transparency protects institutions and the public.","Donors' wishes about recognition and privacy deserve respect."],"affectedParties":["Donors","Beneficiaries","Institutions receiving gifts"]},"owners":{"steward":"The benefactor answers for their own giving; recipient institutions keep records of gifts.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"oewn-10158287-n","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"person","type":"related","note":"in WordNet terms"},{"target":"philanthropy","type":"related"},{"target":"manumission","type":"related","note":"historical act of freeing"},{"target":"sponsor (commercial)","type":"related"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.benefactor","Open English WordNet: oewn-09631739-n","WordNet: oewn-10158287-n hypernym of benefactor"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["WordNet hypernym: good person note","Latin origin: bene facere, to do good note","registry parent: oewn-10158287-n note"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"optional","items":["Person who helps others, especially financially","Helper, benefactress, bondsperson, emancipator, manumitter, fairy godmother","Donors give specific gifts; patrons support artists or causes over time; sponsors expect promotion; foundations are institutions","Not a visible object; a person in a helping role, sometimes named on plaques and buildings."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain the concept","relay usage and history","describe named terms","flag misfit aliases"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Romanticising paternalistic giving","Misfiled bondsperson alias","Confusing emancipation with benevolence alone"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["Charity and gift laws","Donor recognition policies"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Not applicable; a role of giving help.","philanthropists","patrons","emancipators and manumitters","anonymous benefactors","fairy godmother figures in stories"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-09631739-n","url":"https://en-word.net/id/oewn-09631739-n","note":"sense and gloss of the concept"},{"title":"Wiktionary: benefactor","url":"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benefactor","note":"word senses and usage"}],"openQuestions":["The registry alias bondsperson should be moved to an appropriate entry","How should philanthropy sources be linked?","Should manumitter be linked to slavery history entries?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-benefactor/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-benefactor/spec.json"],"providers":["Claude"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-13T21:11:32Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"not-applicable","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T12:16:27+00:00: completeness 1.00; 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