{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.classique-des-alpes","code":"thing-q25755","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q25755/","name":"Classique des Alpes","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"thing","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The Classique des Alpes was an annual men's professional one-day road cycling race held in the French Alps, in the Savoy region.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify Classique des Alpes, reconstruct its professional road-racing editions, assess conflicting records and distinguish its history from the junior event.","scope":{"in":["Professional race identity and the boundaries between the recurring event and individual editions","Edition dates, numbering, occurrence and discontinuation evidence","Edition-specific Alpine routes, climbs, distances and course changes","Rider eligibility, team representation and actual participation","Organising authority, sporting classification and calendar relationships","Results, race incidents and evidence supporting historical interpretations"],"out":["Independent modelling of Classique des Alpes Juniors beyond its relationship to this entry","Complete rider biographies and team histories","General road-cycling rules outside their documented application to an edition","Standalone models of Alpine passes, roads and municipalities","The full histories and classifications of the Coupe de France and Critérium du Dauphiné","Present-day event registration or permission to use historical race routes"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Identify a professional mountainous one-day road race, rather than a stage race or an Alpine stage within another competition. [Race overview](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classique_des_Alpes)","Require edition-level evidence consistent with the documented professional history from 1991 through 2004. [Edition inventory](https://www.cyclingranking.com/races/classique-des-alpes/history)","Use the Chartreuse and Bauges setting and documented Chambéry-Aix-les-Bains routing as geographical identity clues, while checking each edition separately. [Historical description](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classique_des_Alpes)","Separate professional and junior records even when their names and dates overlap: the 2004 preview describes both races with different courses. [Contemporary preview](https://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/jun04/classiquedesalpes04/?id=stages)"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"professional-race-identity","name":"Professional race identity","description":"Resolve what the unqualified race name denotes and how the junior event relates to it.","layers":[{"id":"registry-referent","name":"Registry referent","description":"Connect the registered name to a documented competition.","findings":[{"id":"professional-series-mapping","name":"Professional series mapping","description":"Treat the professional-series interpretation as a mapping to verify against the registry's originating record.","questions":[{"text":"Which originating identifier or reference establishes that vr.tr.classique-des-alpes denotes the professional series?","id":"professional-series-mapping-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What combination of rider category, edition year and race description resolves an otherwise unqualified reference?","id":"professional-series-mapping-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]},{"id":"junior-relationship","name":"Junior relationship","description":"Describe shared history without silently pooling competitions.","findings":[{"id":"parallel-event-boundary","name":"Parallel event boundary","description":"Record whether a source describes shared organisation, parallel races or claimed succession, and keep those relationships distinct.","questions":[{"text":"Which documents distinguish professional and junior races in years when both were held?","id":"parallel-event-boundary-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What evidence would justify recording organisational continuity without merging their edition counts or winners?","id":"parallel-event-boundary-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"edition-calendar-and-closure","name":"Edition calendar and closure","description":"Establish the race's dated occurrences and the evidence for its ending.","layers":[{"id":"dated-edition-inventory","name":"Dated edition inventory","description":"Separate announced dates, actual racing dates and edition numbering.","findings":[{"id":"occurrence-and-numbering","name":"Occurrence and numbering","description":"Build an evidence-backed edition inventory with explicit date precision and unresolved numbering conflicts.","questions":[{"text":"What contemporary evidence establishes the actual racing date and official number of each professional edition?","id":"occurrence-and-numbering-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Do published edition totals agree with the inventory, and are any discrepancies explained by cancelled or differently counted events?","id":"occurrence-and-numbering-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"calendar-position-and-discontinuation","name":"Calendar position and discontinuation","description":"Record scheduling relationships and distinguish documented closure from explanations of its causes.","findings":[{"id":"scheduling-and-ending-evidence","name":"Scheduling and ending evidence","description":"Attach calendar proximity and discontinuation claims to named sources and the years they address.","questions":[{"text":"For which editions do calendars establish the race's timing relative to the Critérium du Dauphiné?","id":"scheduling-and-ending-evidence-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Who announced the end of the professional race, and which explanations are organiser statements versus later interpretations?","id":"scheduling-and-ending-evidence-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence would distinguish a professional revival from another junior edition or reuse of the name?","id":"scheduling-and-ending-evidence-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"alpine-course-and-race-conditions","name":"Alpine course and race conditions","description":"Represent the route actually used and the conditions affecting its execution.","layers":[{"id":"edition-route-topology","name":"Edition route topology","description":"Identify starts, finishes, climbs and their order for each course version.","findings":[{"id":"documented-climbing-sequence","name":"Documented climbing sequence","description":"Require edition evidence before assigning familiar passes or a Chambéry-Aix-les-Bains route to a particular year.","questions":[{"text":"Which route document establishes the start, finish and ordered passes for this edition?","id":"documented-climbing-sequence-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which climbs belong to the professional course, and which appear only in the same year's junior itinerary?","id":"documented-climbing-sequence-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What distance and ascent figures apply to the documented route, and how were they measured?","id":"documented-climbing-sequence-q03","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"course-execution","name":"Course execution","description":"Track differences between the published itinerary and the roads actually raced.","findings":[{"id":"conditions-and-route-deviations","name":"Conditions and route deviations","description":"Record evidenced weather, road incidents, neutralisations or rerouting without assuming they occurred.","questions":[{"text":"Do race reports or official decisions document any shortening, diversion or neutralisation on the mountain course?","id":"conditions-and-route-deviations-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which claims about weather or descending conditions are observed reports, and which are retrospective explanations of performance?","id":"conditions-and-route-deviations-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Should a route comparison use the announced itinerary or the verified course actually raced?","id":"conditions-and-route-deviations-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"sporting-authority-and-field","name":"Sporting authority and field","description":"Establish who organised, sanctioned and contested each professional edition.","layers":[{"id":"organising-and-calendar-authority","name":"Organising and calendar authority","description":"Record edition-specific organiser responsibilities and sporting affiliations.","findings":[{"id":"dated-authority-and-status","name":"Dated authority and status","description":"Verify organising entities, sanctioning classifications and series membership for their actual periods of application.","questions":[{"text":"Which contemporary document identifies the organiser and sanctioning authority for the edition?","id":"dated-authority-and-status-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What classification and Coupe de France relationship applied that year?","id":"dated-authority-and-status-q02","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which responsibilities belonged to the organiser, sporting officials and local road authorities?","id":"dated-authority-and-status-q03","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"eligible-and-actual-field","name":"Eligible and actual field","description":"Separate admission rules from entries and verified starters.","findings":[{"id":"rider-and-team-participation","name":"Rider and team participation","description":"Link riders to their race-day teams and preserve differences between entry, start and finish evidence.","questions":[{"text":"What rider and team categories were eligible for this professional edition under its contemporary rules?","id":"rider-and-team-participation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which records establish actual starters rather than announced entrants?","id":"rider-and-team-participation-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How should conflicting rider names, team affiliations or start statuses be resolved without importing junior records?","id":"rider-and-team-participation-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"results-and-historical-interpretation","name":"Results and historical interpretation","description":"Maintain defensible sporting outcomes and distinguish them from accounts of how the race unfolded.","layers":[{"id":"classification-and-palmares","name":"Classification and palmarès","description":"Establish finishing orders, timings and non-finisher statuses with result authority.","findings":[{"id":"authoritative-edition-result","name":"Authoritative edition result","description":"Preserve the provenance and revision history of results before aggregating professional wins.","questions":[{"text":"Which classification establishes the winner, finishing order, time gaps and non-finisher statuses?","id":"authoritative-edition-result-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Are later corrections or disciplinary amendments documented for this edition?","id":"authoritative-edition-result-q02","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which verified professional results may contribute to win totals when sources disagree?","id":"authoritative-edition-result-q03","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"race-narrative-and-evidence-gaps","name":"Race narrative and evidence gaps","description":"Connect reported decisive moments to the course while preserving disagreement and missing evidence.","findings":[{"id":"attributed-race-explanations","name":"Attributed race explanations","description":"Represent attacks, selections, crashes and tactical explanations as attributed claims rather than deductions from finishing order.","questions":[{"text":"Which contemporary accounts locate decisive attacks or selections on identified climbs or descents?","id":"attributed-race-explanations-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Where do rider testimony and reporting disagree about what determined the result?","id":"attributed-race-explanations-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which historical claims must remain unresolved because only summaries or incomplete result transcriptions survive?","id":"attributed-race-explanations-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Classique des Alpes this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Classique des Alpes this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Classique des Alpes this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Classique des Alpes this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Classique des Alpes this model covers, and on 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results.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q2912397","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.classique-des-alpes","Wikidata: Q25755 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25755)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Event identity level: professional race series; individual professional edition; related junior event; unresolved reference","Edition date and precision: Gregorian date; local start time and time zone where documented; day, month or year precision","Occurrence and lifecycle: edition: scheduled, started, completed, cancelled, unknown; series: active, discontinued, disputed","Course configuration: edition-linked start, finish, ordered climbs, road segments and route version","Course measurements: distance in km; elevation gain and summit altitude in m; gradient in %; method and route version","Sporting eligibility and classification: dated rider category, team eligibility, sanctioning classification and applicable rules","Participation outcome: entered; started; finished; did not start; did not finish; disqualified; unknown","Result authority: provisional; official; amended; disputed; secondary transcription"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":[]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Resolve an ambiguous Classique des Alpes reference using year, rider category, route and organising evidence.","Reconstruct a professional edition from dated course documents, start lists, reports and results.","Compare edition difficulty using measurements tied to the same route version and calculation method.","Build a professional palmarès while preserving result amendments and excluding junior results.","Flag contradictory dates, edition numbers, routes or participant outcomes for review.","Evaluate claims about discontinuation or continuation using attributed evidence before changing the event's status."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Confusion with similarly named Alpine races.","Incomplete archives for early editions."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["The Cycling Regulations issued by the Union Cycliste Internationale governed the international professional race, with the applicable provisions depending on the edition."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["The Classique des Alpes is encountered in historical records of men's professional road cycling in the French Alps.","Its editions support research into race results, rider careers and the professional racing calendar.","Historical identification requires distinguishing the professional event from the similarly named junior competition."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q25755: Classique des Alpes","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25755","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Classique des 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[Edition inventory](https://www.cyclingranking.com/races/classique-des-alpes/history) [Conflicting summary](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classique_des_Alpes)","Which primary announcement establishes the professional race's discontinuation and supports any claimed connection to calendar reform?","Can contemporary roadbooks and official classifications be recovered for every professional edition to settle route and result discrepancies?","What precise organisational or rights relationship connects the professional and junior competitions, and which sources establish it?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q25755/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q25755/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T08:44:11Z","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":"not-applicable","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 2026-10-07T10:10:29+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; review by codex: pass","interaction.properties":"Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.","interaction.recognition":"The historical competition has no intrinsic visual appearance that reliably distinguishes its identity from other road cycling races."},"score":1.0}}