combatant
Let an agent explain the word combatant, relay everyday and legal meanings from dictionaries and humanitarian law sources, describe the named aliases and flag the sport alias, and distinguish combatants from civilians, belligerent states, unlawful combatant claims, which are debated, and sport fighters.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a combatant is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a combatant, and how does the term differ from civilian, belligerent state, unlawful combatant and sport fighter? definition
- Is someone in danger from violence, in which case contact emergency services? boundary
Aliases
Named aliases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What do brawler, battler, belligerent, fighter and scrapper mean, and why is fencer different? definition
- Which entry fits the specific term? action
Law Legal status.
IHL
Combatant status.
IHL
IHL.
- How does humanitarian law define combatants and give POW status? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Distinction
Principle of distinction.
Distinction
Distinction.
- What is the principle of distinction between combatants and civilians? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Debates Legal debates.
Unlawful combatant
Unlawful combatant debate.
Unlawful combatant
Unlawful combatant.
- What do governments, the ICRC and scholars argue about unlawful combatant status, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Direct participation
Direct participation in hostilities.
Direct participation
Direct participation.
- What does ICRC guidance say about civilians directly participating in hostilities? provenance
- Which entry fits direct participation in hostilities? action
Context Language.
Everyday
Everyday usage.
Everyday
Everyday.
- How is combatant used figuratively in debates and sport? provenance
- Which entry fits combat sport? action
Fencing
Fencers.
Fencing
Fencing.
- What is a fencer in the sport of fencing? provenance
- Is the information accurate? boundary
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.person
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- 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
- brawler, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper, fencer, gouger, hell-kite, hell-rooster, gamecock, mauler, skirmisher
What it is Filled
In the WordNet sense, someone who fights or is fighting, with synonyms and related terms the registry aliases name such as fighter, battler, brawler, scrapper and belligerent, and fencer, a practitioner of the sport of fencing, which appears loosely filed; in international humanitarian law applicable to international armed conflict, combatant is a specific legal status for members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict, excluding medical and religious personnel, who may lawfully participate in hostilities and are entitled to prisoner-of-war status upon capture, distinguished from civilians, who lose protection from direct attack only for such time as they directly participate in hostilities and retain other applicable legal protections. The model gives no guidance on violence.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the word combatant, relay everyday and legal meanings from dictionaries and humanitarian law sources, describe the named aliases and flag the sport alias, and distinguish combatants from civilians, belligerent states, unlawful combatant claims, which are debated, and sport fighters.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Fighting role
- Everyday and legal senses
- POW status in law
- Distinction principle
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Encourage or help anyone to fight or harm another person.
- Use the label unlawful combatant in a partisan way to deny people their legal protections.
- Treat fencers or other sport fighters as violent combatants.
Only with a human decision
- Any classification of a real person as a combatant in a conflict.
May
- Explain the WordNet sense of combatant as someone who fights, with its related terms.
- Distinguish the legal sense of combatant under the law of armed conflict from everyday usage.
Moral aspects Filled
- Being labelled a combatant can strip people of legal protections in armed conflict.
Who is affected
- Civilians
- Detainees
- Athletes in combat sports
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; international humanitarian law defines the legal sense.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-09786620-n - registry parent class
related
- person - in WordNet terms
- international humanitarian law - legal sense
- civilian
- fencer - loosely filed sport alias
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.combatant
- Open English WordNet: oewn-09958771-n
- WordNet: oewn-09786620-n hypernym of combatant
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Geneva Convention III: 1949 year - prisoners of war
- Additional Protocol I Article 43: 1977 year - definition of armed forces
- WordNet hypernym: person note
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Someone who fights
- Brawler, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper, fencer
- Civilians are protected persons; belligerents can be states; unlawful combatant is a contested label; sport fighters compete under rules
- Not a single appearance; a word and legal category.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain everyday meaning
- relay legal status under humanitarian law
- describe named aliases
- present legal debates with attribution
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Encouraging violence
- Partisan use of unlawful combatant labels
- Loosely filed sport alias
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols
- ICRC interpretive guidance on direct participation in hostilities
Context of use required Filled
- Naming someone who fights.
- lawful combatants
- brawlers and fighters in everyday usage
- belligerent parties
- sport fighters such as fencers
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-09958771-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: combatant - word senses and usage
Open questions
- The registry alias fencer should be moved to fencing entries
- Should the legal sense be a separate entry?
- How should debates about unlawful combatants be presented?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-combatant/spec.json