{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.wm-pol-016","code":"wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution","url":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution/","name":"Public Authority / Institution","alternateNames":[],"kind":"world-model","status":"published","version":"0.3.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"World Models","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"entity","plane":"","domain":["SOC.POL.AUT"],"industry":["Cross-industry"],"navPath":"NAV.SOC.POL.AUT","tags":["public","authority","institution","soc.pol.aut"],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"One public institution, potentially lacking separate legal personality, with evidenced identity, basis, competence, relationships and institutional changes. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which authoritative institution identifier and official names identify this body across languages and name changes?","id":"institution-identity-q01","kind":"identity"},{"text":"What evidence distinguishes this institution from similarly named offices, buildings or websites?","id":"institution-identity-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"Which asserted legal-personality status and public-body classification apply under which dated jurisdictional definition?","id":"institution-identity-q03","kind":"classification"}]}]},{"id":"institution-boundary","name":"Institutional scope and boundaries","description":"Authored institutional-record design for institutional scope and boundaries. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","findings":[{"id":"institution-competence-record","name":"Competence jurisdiction and delegation record","description":"Authored institutional-record design for competence jurisdiction and delegation. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which subject-matter, territorial, personal and temporal limits qualify each asserted competence?","id":"institution-competence-q01","kind":"constraint"},{"text":"Which delegated powers name a delegator, recipient, legal basis and limits without confusing delegation with reporting?","id":"institution-competence-q02","kind":"authority"},{"text":"What evidence or authorized interpretation is still missing before relying on the institution's power in a concrete matter?","id":"institution-competence-q03","kind":"evidence"}]}]}]},{"id":"public-governance-and-institutional-relationships","name":"Governance and institutional relationships","description":"Public institution governance and institutional relationships.","layers":[{"id":"institution-organs","name":"Organs posts and representation","description":"Authored institutional-record design for organs posts and representation. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which governing organs, organizational units and posts belong to this institution during the relevant period?","id":"institution-organs-q01","kind":"composition"},{"text":"Which appointment or representation references distinguish a post from its current holder and authorized actions?","id":"institution-organs-q02","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which vacancies, acting appointments or competing claims require explicit uncertainty instead of inferred representation?","id":"institution-organs-q03","kind":"exception"}]}]},{"id":"institution-oversight","name":"Oversight and resources","description":"Authored institutional-record design for oversight and resources. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which bodies supervise, sponsor, audit or receive reports from this institution under distinct mandates?","id":"institution-oversight-q01","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which budget, funding and resource masters are referenced without equating financing with legal control?","id":"institution-oversight-q02","kind":"ownership"},{"text":"Which independence guarantees and control assessments coexist under their respective definitions?","id":"institution-oversight-q03","kind":"classification"}]}]}]},{"id":"public-functions-services-and-public-interface","name":"Functions services and public interface","description":"Public institution functions services and public interface.","layers":[{"id":"institution-services","name":"Functions and delivery responsibility","description":"Authored institutional-record design for functions and delivery responsibility. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which public functions and service references are attributed to the institution by authoritative sources?","id":"institution-services-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which services are delivered directly or by another provider while responsibility remains separately recorded?","id":"institution-services-q02","kind":"authority"},{"text":"Which service status, eligibility or output details belong to referenced service models rather than institution identity?","id":"institution-services-q03","kind":"composition"}]}]},{"id":"institution-channels","name":"Locations and contact channels","description":"Authored institutional-record design for locations and contact channels. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which official sites, contact points and accessible channels are associated with the institution?","id":"institution-channels-q01","kind":"spatial"},{"text":"Which service territory or jurisdiction differs from office location or correspondence address?","id":"institution-channels-q02","kind":"spatial"},{"text":"How are contact authenticity, availability and publication permission checked without initiating contact?","id":"institution-channels-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"public-accountability-and-information-custody","name":"Accountability and information custody","description":"Public institution accountability and information custody.","layers":[{"id":"institution-transparency","name":"Decisions reports and transparency","description":"Authored institutional-record design for decisions reports and transparency. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which source, steward and effective time support each material institutional assertion?","id":"institution-custody-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How are conflicting mandate or identity claims corrected without overwriting source history?","id":"institution-custody-q02","kind":"quality"},{"text":"Which access, retention, legal-hold and custody policies govern institutional evidence and retirement of local copies?","id":"institution-custody-q03","kind":"retention"}]}]}]},{"id":"public-institutional-change-and-interoperability","name":"Institutional change and interoperability","description":"Public institution institutional change and interoperability.","layers":[{"id":"institution-succession","name":"Reorganization and succession","description":"Authored institutional-record design for reorganization and succession. 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Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","questions":[{"text":"Which establishment, merger, split, transfer or abolition event changed the institution's identity or responsibilities?","id":"institution-succession-q01","kind":"event"},{"text":"Which instrument and effective dates link predecessor and successor institutions without treating renaming as automatic replacement?","id":"institution-succession-q02","kind":"temporal"},{"text":"Where do unresolved obligations, service responsibilities and records custody pass according to explicit evidence?","id":"institution-succession-q03","kind":"relationship"}]}]},{"id":"institution-mapping","name":"Mapping and acceptance","description":"Authored institutional-record design for mapping and acceptance. Selected sources motivate distinctions; legal interpretations and operational enforcement require separate profiles.","findings":[{"id":"institution-mapping-record","name":"Mapping and acceptance record","description":"Authored institutional-record design for mapping and acceptance. 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Execution adapter is not implemented.","Record institutional basis: Proposed local record operation: record institutional basis. Execution adapter is not implemented.","Link service responsibility: Proposed local record operation: link service responsibility. Execution adapter is not implemented.","Record institutional change: Proposed local record operation: record institutional change. Execution adapter is not implemented.","Record publication scope: Proposed local record operation: record publication scope. Execution adapter is not implemented.","Export allowed projection: Proposed local record operation: export allowed projection. Execution adapter is not implemented."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["People directed to wrong or defunct authorities.","Impersonation scams using institutional identity.","Decisions based on assumed powers."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["EU Core Public Organisation Vocabulary.","Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile.","W3C Organization Ontology.","UN Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG).","ISO 3166 country and subdivision codes."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["UK administrative/statistical/FOI examples are bounded and do not define all public institutions worldwide."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Core Public Organisation Vocabulary","url":"https://semiceu.github.io/CPOV/releases/2.1.1/","note":"European Union SEMIC"},{"title":"The Organization Ontology","url":"https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-org/","note":"W3C"},{"title":"Core Public Service Vocabulary Application Profile","url":"https://semiceu.github.io/CPSV-AP/releases/3.2.0/","note":"European Union SEMIC"},{"title":"Public bodies","url":"https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-bodies-reform","note":"UK Cabinet Office"},{"title":"Statistical classification to the public sector","url":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicsectorfinance/methodologies/statisticalclassificationtothepublicsector","note":"Office for National Statistics"},{"title":"Publication schemes: a guide","url":"https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/foi/publication-schemes-a-guide/","note":"Information Commissioner Office"}],"openQuestions":["Independent review and exact source/license/profile verification.","Concrete legal instruments and bounded competence/succession mappings.","Executable nested fields, negative tests and ratified composition.","Both providers timed out once; no independent external review.","Selected clauses only; full dated-pin/update/license and jurisdiction-profile verification pending.","No concrete institution-specific legal instrument or universal competence interpretation supplied.","No executable nested schemas, legal inference engine, succession/custody transfer or round-trip adapter.","Empty relation ledger; proposed composition has not been ratified."],"resources":{"spec":"/models/wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution/spec.yaml","agents":"/models/wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution/AGENTS.md","source":"https://github.com/ver-cy/world-models/tree/feat/mega-model-registry/research/runs/wm-pol-016"},"provenance":{"origin":"world-models research","builtFrom":["models/wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution/spec.yaml","ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-pol-016-public-authority-institution.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"reviewable-draft","generatedAt":"2026-09-09T23:27:30Z","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":{"interaction.properties":"Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.","_supplement":"Sections authored in card supplement 1.0.0 by Claude (Opus 5.5) (2026-10-05, unreviewed). Written from the published specification and established practice in the field; no new sources were read. Unreviewed."},"score":1.0}}