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capital
vr.tr.capital · thing-capital
Let an agent handle capital by form, owner, cost and use, give factual information, and avoid personal investment advice.
Thing Registry Society, people and institutions SOC.ECO
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Form Which capital.
Kind
Physical, financial.
Kind
Form of capital.
- What form of capital is meant? definition
- Who owns it? provenance
Amount
Value.
Amount
Amount.
- How much capital, in which currency? measurement
- From which accounts? provenance
Raising Getting capital.
Sources
Equity and debt.
Sources
Capital sources.
- How is capital raised: equity, debt, grants? definition
- What does it cost? measurement
Rules
Securities law.
Rules
Regulatory rules.
- Which rules apply to raising capital? provenance
- Is a prospectus required? boundary
Use Investment.
Investment
Projects.
Investment
Capital investment.
- What is the capital used for? definition
- What return is expected? measurement
Cost of capital
Hurdle rates.
Cost
Cost of capital.
- What is the cost of capital? measurement
- How is it estimated? provenance
Limits No advice.
Advice
Boundary.
Advice limit
What not to say.
- Is the user asking where to invest? boundary
- How should the agent respond? action
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is capital city or capital letter meant instead? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.possession
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.ECO
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- stock, blue chip, blue-chip stock, classified stock, common stock, common shares, ordinary shares, stock of record, no-par-value stock, no-par stock, preferred stock, preferred shares
What it is Filled
Assets available for use in producing further assets, such as money, machinery, buildings and financial instruments; in finance also shares and equity.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle capital by form, owner, cost and use, give factual information, and avoid personal investment advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Assets used to produce more
- Physical, financial and human capital
- Cost of capital matters for decisions
- Capital city is a different sense
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Move, invest or dispose of capital without the owner's authority.
- Misstate capital to mislead investors, lenders or regulators.
- Give personalised investment advice it is not qualified to give.
- Disclose the holdings of a person or company to those not entitled to know.
Only with a human decision
- Any investment, sale or transfer of capital.
- Changing a company's share capital.
May
- Report capital holdings and structure from books it is authorized to read.
- Prepare capital plans for a human to approve.
Moral aspects Filled
- Misstated capital harms investors, creditors and employees.
- Decisions over capital shape jobs and livelihoods.
Who is affected
- Owners and investors
- Employees and creditors
Owners Filled
Steward
The owner of the assets; company capital is recorded in business registers.
Master systems
- Business registers
- Securities registers
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13350663-n - registry parent class
related
- assets - productive
- security - financial capital
- economics - discipline
- capital city - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.capital
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13375435-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Capital on balance sheets
- Share capital and stock types
- Capital expenditure lines
- Money, machines, buildings and securities.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- raise capital
- invest capital in projects
- measure returns
- account for it
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Personal investment advice
- Mixing senses
- Undercapitalisation
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Accounting standards
- Capital requirements for banks (Basel III)
- Securities law for raising capital
Context of use required Filled
- Funding production and investment.
- physical capital
- financial capital and equity
- working capital
- human and social capital (extended senses)
- share classes such as common stock
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13375435-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: capital - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should forms of capital be separate entries?
- How should the capital city sense be split off?
- The registry entry merges stock types; should they link to security entries?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-capital/spec.json