{ "model": { "rank": 6814, "code": "thing-q101539", "model_id": "vr.tr.flight-attendant", "name": "flight attendant", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a flight attendant role, assess the evidence needed for a holder to perform a particular cabin assignment, and identify permitted duties and escalation paths.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q101539/", "tier": 2, "score": 58, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "stewardess" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 58, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q101539", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101539", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:33:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08884-39c9-7b83-911f-70a66622b3e6\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: flight attendant\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 007: 100", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 70.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a08884-39db-7253-9d4a-298a2b313320\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: flight attendant\nRegistry id: vr.tr.flight-attendant\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry:" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q101539", "registryId": "vr.tr.flight-attendant", "name": "flight attendant", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q101539/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.flight-attendant", "name": "flight attendant", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a flight attendant role, assess the evidence needed for a holder to perform a particular cabin assignment, and identify permitted duties and escalation paths.", "definition": "A flight attendant is a member of an aircraft's cabin crew whose occupational responsibilities include passenger safety, cabin security, emergency response and passenger assistance during flight operations.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the flight attendant occupation and its cabin safety, passenger assistance and service responsibilities, including requirements attached to role assignments; it links to the people, operators, aircraft and flights involved without treating them as the occupation itself.", "in_scope": [ "Occupation identity, role variants and jurisdiction-specific occupational classifications", "Cabin duties, responsibility boundaries and crew coordination", "Competence, qualification and assignment eligibility requirements", "Passenger assistance, cabin service and safety-related interactions", "Emergency responsibilities, reporting and operational escalation", "Employment and rostering conditions relevant to performing the role" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The identity, complete biography or medical record of a person holding the role", "Airline ownership, commercial strategy and organisation-wide management", "Aircraft design, airworthiness certification and maintenance execution", "Pilot qualifications and flight-deck operation", "Complete flight schedules, passenger manifests and reservation records", "Recruitment advertisements and employment contracts as documents" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The role includes assigned responsibility for cabin occupant safety; providing food or hospitality aboard an aircraft alone does not establish that someone is a flight attendant.", "Its operational duties concern the passenger cabin and crew coordination, distinguishing it from a pilot role responsible for operating the aircraft.", "It is an onboard crew role, distinguishing it from ground-based gate, check-in and passenger-service roles.", "The occupation persists across different holders and vacancies; a named employee, a particular crew assignment and a job advertisement are separate linked entities.", "A lead cabin role may add coordination duties, but the title alone does not establish a separate occupation or universal authority." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Occupational classification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Classification scheme, code, label, version and jurisdiction; unverified where not researched", "why_it_matters": "Supports matching across registries without assuming that classification systems use identical boundaries." }, { "name": "Operating context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Passenger airline, charter, business aviation or another documented context", "why_it_matters": "Identifies which duties and requirements need to be established for the particular operation." }, { "name": "Assignment relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links among role holder, employer, operating carrier, flight and assigned cabin position", "why_it_matters": "Separates the occupation from the person and from a particular deployment." }, { "name": "Applicable authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relevant jurisdiction, competent authority and operator procedures, with applicability and effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents requirements from one regulatory or operator context being applied universally." }, { "name": "Qualification evidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each applicable requirement: verified current, expired, missing, disputed or not applicable", "why_it_matters": "Makes qualification gaps explicit without equating possession of one credential with complete assignment eligibility." }, { "name": "Aircraft and equipment competence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented scope of aircraft, cabin configurations and emergency equipment covered by training", "why_it_matters": "Supports checking whether a holder's competence covers the proposed assignment." }, { "name": "Cabin position and coordination responsibility", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Operator-defined position, assigned zone, coordination role and reporting relationship", "why_it_matters": "Establishes responsibility for checks, communication and assigned emergency duties." }, { "name": "Duty and rest exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Duty duration and rest duration in hours, with roster dates and applicable calculation rules", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence for assessing assignment readiness under the relevant limits." }, { "name": "Assignment eligibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, eligible, eligible with restrictions or ineligible for a specified assignment and time", "why_it_matters": "Keeps readiness contextual and requires a reasoned determination rather than a permanent personal label." }, { "name": "Passenger support capability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented languages, assistance competences and limits relevant to cabin duties", "why_it_matters": "Supports appropriate allocation of passenger assistance and communication responsibilities." } ], "affordances": [ "Match an occupation label to the flight attendant role while distinguishing pilots, ground staff and onboard hospitality-only roles.", "Compare a proposed cabin assignment with documented qualification, aircraft competence and duty-readiness requirements.", "Identify who owns a cabin check, passenger assistance task or escalation at a specified flight phase.", "Flag missing, expired or inapplicable evidence for review by an authorised decision-maker.", "Route cabin hazards, passenger incidents and equipment discrepancies through the applicable reporting relationships.", "Identify training or reassessment needs arising from a changed aircraft assignment, procedure or responsibility." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "occupation-and-role-boundaries", "name": "Occupation and role boundaries", "description": "Establishes what counts as a flight attendant role and how titles, holders and assignments relate.", "rationale": "A cabin service title or a person's employment record cannot by itself establish the occupation's responsibilities.", "layers": [ { "id": "occupational-recognition", "name": "Occupational recognition", "description": "Identifies the occupation through its responsibilities and documented classification mappings.", "findings": [ { "id": "cabin-role-identity", "name": "Cabin role identity", "description": "Record the safety and passenger-facing responsibilities that establish the role, together with any verified occupational classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assigned cabin safety responsibilities establish this as a flight attendant role rather than onboard hospitality alone?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cabin-role-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which classification source, version and jurisdiction support the occupation label or code?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cabin-role-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "holders-and-role-variants", "name": "Holders and role variants", "description": "Separates the occupation from individual holders, crew positions and operator-specific seniority titles.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-holder-assignment-separation", "name": "Role, holder and assignment separation", "description": "Keep the occupation distinct from a person's employment, a vacancy and an assigned cabin position, including any lead responsibilities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe the occupation, a person holding it, a vacancy or a particular flight assignment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "role-holder-assignment-separation-q01" }, { "text": "What additional responsibilities and authority does a lead or senior cabin title carry for this operator?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-holder-assignment-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualification-and-competence", "name": "Qualification and competence", "description": "Captures the requirements and evidence used to establish competence for cabin duties.", "rationale": "Flight attendant eligibility must be established for the applicable jurisdiction, operator and aircraft context.", "layers": [ { "id": "credential-requirements", "name": "Credential requirements", "description": "Identifies applicable credentials and distinguishes regulatory requirements from operator conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-qualification-basis", "name": "Applicable qualification basis", "description": "Record whether a certificate, attestation, licence or other qualification is required, who issues it and the scope it covers without presuming a universal licensing system.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which qualifications are required in this operating context, and which are regulatory versus operator requirements?", "kind": "definition", "id": "applicable-qualification-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What authoritative source establishes each requirement, its issuer and its current applicability?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-qualification-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "training-scope-and-currency", "name": "Training scope and currency", "description": "Connects assessed competence to cabin configurations, equipment and any required recurrent training.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-specific-training-coverage", "name": "Assignment-specific training coverage", "description": "Record initial, recurrent, conversion or differences training where applicable, including assessment outcomes and limits of coverage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which aircraft configurations, exits and emergency equipment are covered by the holder's documented training?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assignment-specific-training-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "What assessment dates, validity rules and unresolved training gaps determine whether that coverage is current?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assignment-specific-training-coverage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "routine-cabin-safety", "name": "Routine cabin safety", "description": "Organises routine cabin responsibilities around flight phases, assigned positions and crew communication.", "rationale": "The role needs explicit responsibility for cabin conditions and reporting, beyond a generic list of customer-service tasks.", "layers": [ { "id": "flight-phase-responsibilities", "name": "Flight-phase responsibilities", "description": "Locates cabin checks and occupant-safety tasks within the applicable operating sequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "cabin-check-ownership", "name": "Cabin check ownership", "description": "Record responsibility for assigned equipment checks, passenger briefings and cabin readiness checks using the operator's procedures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which checks and briefings belong to this cabin position before departure, during flight and before arrival?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cabin-check-ownership-q01" }, { "text": "What must the attendant report or escalate when an assigned check cannot be completed satisfactorily?", "kind": "action", "id": "cabin-check-ownership-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "crew-coordination", "name": "Crew coordination", "description": "Defines cabin reporting relationships and coordination with the flight deck.", "findings": [ { "id": "cabin-status-and-escalation", "name": "Cabin status and escalation", "description": "Record how cabin readiness, hazards and unresolved discrepancies reach the crew member authorised to decide the next action.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who receives cabin readiness reports and unresolved safety concerns from this assigned position?", "kind": "definition", "id": "cabin-status-and-escalation-q01" }, { "text": "Which decisions may the attendant make directly, and which require lead-cabin or flight-deck involvement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "cabin-status-and-escalation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "passenger-assistance-and-service", "name": "Passenger assistance and service", "description": "Describes cabin communication, passenger support and service within operational responsibilities.", "rationale": "Passenger assistance and hospitality share the cabin setting but require distinct competences, priorities and limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "accessible-cabin-assistance", "name": "Accessible cabin assistance", "description": "Captures assistance responsibilities and communication adaptations for passengers with differing needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "assistance-scope-and-handoffs", "name": "Assistance scope and handoffs", "description": "Record the support the role can provide, relevant communication capabilities and handoffs to ground personnel or other specialists.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cabin assistance and adapted safety communication is this role trained and assigned to provide?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assistance-scope-and-handoffs-q01" }, { "text": "Where do responsibilities pass to ground assistance staff, a passenger's companion or a medical professional?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assistance-scope-and-handoffs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "service-priorities", "name": "Service priorities", "description": "Places food, beverage and other passenger services within cabin safety constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-interruption-and-passenger-communication", "name": "Service interruption and passenger communication", "description": "Record assigned service duties and the conditions under which they must be adjusted, suspended or escalated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passenger-service duties are included in this operator's flight attendant assignment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "service-interruption-and-passenger-communication-q01" }, { "text": "What procedure governs suspending service and communicating with passengers when cabin conditions become unsafe?", "kind": "action", "id": "service-interruption-and-passenger-communication-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "emergencies-and-cabin-incidents", "name": "Emergencies and cabin incidents", "description": "Defines trained response responsibilities, authority limits and incident reporting.", "rationale": "Emergency duties distinguish this occupation and require context-specific evidence rather than assumed authority.", "layers": [ { "id": "emergency-position-duties", "name": "Emergency position duties", "description": "Connects emergency responsibilities to training, assigned stations and approved procedures.", "findings": [ { "id": "assigned-emergency-response", "name": "Assigned emergency response", "description": "Record the scope of assigned duties for events such as smoke, fire, decompression or evacuation, referencing the applicable procedures rather than supplying improvised instructions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What emergency station, equipment and responsibilities are assigned to this attendant for this aircraft configuration?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assigned-emergency-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which approved procedures establish when the attendant acts independently and when coordination or a command is required?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assigned-emergency-response-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "medical-and-behavioural-incidents", "name": "Medical and behavioural incidents", "description": "Captures the limits of passenger incident response and the required escalation and handover.", "findings": [ { "id": "incident-response-limits", "name": "Incident response limits", "description": "Record trained first-aid and conflict-management responsibilities, limits on interventions and requirements for factual reporting.", "questions": [ { "text": "What assistance or intervention is within the attendant's documented training and applicable authority for a medical or disruptive-passenger incident?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "incident-response-limits-q01" }, { "text": "When and to whom must the incident be escalated, handed over and reported?", "kind": "action", "id": "incident-response-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "employment-and-duty-readiness", "name": "Employment and duty readiness", "description": "Relates employment, operational assignment and time-specific readiness to perform cabin duties.", "rationale": "Holding a flight attendant job does not establish eligibility for every flight or readiness at every point in a roster.", "layers": [ { "id": "employment-and-assignment-accountability", "name": "Employment and assignment accountability", "description": "Distinguishes the employer from the operator and identifies who assigns and oversees cabin duties.", "findings": [ { "id": "employer-operator-and-supervision", "name": "Employer, operator and supervision", "description": "Record employment and deployment relationships, including who owns qualification verification and operational supervision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organisation employs the holder, which operates the flight and who assigns the cabin position?", "kind": "definition", "id": "employer-operator-and-supervision-q01" }, { "text": "Who is accountable for verifying eligibility and resolving conflicting employment or operational instructions?", "kind": "action", "id": "employer-operator-and-supervision-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fitness-fatigue-and-restrictions", "name": "Fitness, fatigue and restrictions", "description": "Captures readiness evidence and applicable restrictions without incorporating a complete personal health record.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-specific-readiness", "name": "Time-specific readiness", "description": "Record the duty and rest evidence, reported readiness concerns and authorised restrictions relevant to a specified assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "What duty history, rest periods and applicable calculation rules support assessing readiness for this assignment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-specific-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What process applies when the holder reports fatigue, illness or another restriction affecting safe cabin duties?", "kind": "action", "id": "time-specific-readiness-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "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.", "evidence": [ "This is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted.", "Verify current regulatory versions and their applicability to the jurisdiction, aircraft and operation.", "Corporate aviation job titles do not by themselves establish required safety training or regulatory status." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Airline flight attendant", "Corporate or business aviation flight attendant", "Lead flight attendant or purser" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "US Standard Occupational Classification (SOC)", "value_or_pattern": "53-2031", "note": "Flight Attendants; classifies the occupation, not an individual's qualifications." }, { "scheme": "International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08)", "value_or_pattern": "5111", "note": "Travel Attendants and Travel Stewards; a broader group that includes flight attendants." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "ICAO Annex 6, Operation of Aircraft, includes international standards and recommended practices concerning cabin crew.", "ICAO Cabin Crew Safety Training Manual (Doc 10002) provides guidance on cabin crew safety training.", "US Federal Aviation Administration regulations in 14 CFR Part 121 address flight attendant staffing, training and operational duties for covered air carriers.", "European Commission Regulation (EU) No 1178/2011, Annex V (Part-CC), establishes requirements for cabin crew attestations." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Check cabin readiness, safety equipment and passenger compliance before departure.", "Deliver safety briefings and assist passengers with seating, restraints and accessibility needs.", "Respond to smoke, fire, decompression, medical incidents and other onboard emergencies.", "Direct emergency evacuations and coordinate cabin safety information with the flight crew.", "Provide passenger service while maintaining awareness of cabin safety and security." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Turbulence injuries, particularly while standing or moving through the cabin.", "Fatigue and circadian disruption associated with irregular duties and time-zone changes.", "Burns, lifting injuries and injuries from service equipment or unsecured objects.", "Exposure to infectious illness, disruptive passengers and physical assault.", "Failures in emergency recognition, communication or evacuation procedures that endanger passengers and crew." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The United States uses an FAA Certificate of Demonstrated Proficiency for flight attendants within its applicable statutory scope.", "The European Union uses cabin crew attestations under Part-CC alongside applicable operator training and checking requirements.", "Terminology, minimum staffing, medical fitness requirements and duty-time limitations vary by jurisdiction and operation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Cabin crew", "difference": "Cabin crew denotes the onboard personnel category or team; flight attendant denotes an individual occupational role within it." }, { "name": "Pilot", "difference": "A pilot operates the aircraft from the flight deck; a flight attendant primarily manages cabin and passenger safety." }, { "name": "Purser", "difference": "A purser typically holds a supervisory cabin role; not every flight attendant has that responsibility." }, { "name": "Passenger service agent", "difference": "A passenger service agent ordinarily assists passengers on the ground rather than serving as operating cabin crew." }, { "name": "Person", "difference": "Flight attendant is a role a person may hold, not a distinct kind of human being or the person's complete identity." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of flight attendant this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which verified ISCO, SOC and ESCO mappings cover this registry entry, and do their boundaries include all intended operating contexts?", "How do qualification, attestation, certification or licensing requirements differ across the jurisdictions this model must support?", "Which operator and aircraft-specific sources establish training currency, cabin-position responsibilities and emergency authority?", "Where should this registry draw the boundary for business-aviation cabin hosts and other onboard service roles with variable safety responsibilities?", "Which duty, rest, fitness and passenger-assistance requirements apply in each supported context, and what evidence is sufficient to assess compliance?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 13, "findings": 20, "questions": 32 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a flight attendant, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise a flight attendant role, assess the evidence needed for a holder to perform a particular cabin assignment, and identify permitted duties and escalation paths.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: stewardess.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a flight attendant, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "stewardess" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 58 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one flight attendant from another, and a flight attendant from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a flight attendant sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a flight attendant from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a flight attendant is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a flight attendant is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a flight attendant moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a flight attendant passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a flight attendant between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a flight attendant, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a flight attendant is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a flight attendant.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a flight attendant and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a flight attendant, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a flight attendant and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a flight attendant sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as flight attendant.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does flight attendant require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses flight attendant, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What flight attendant actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define flight attendant, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as flight attendant, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a flight attendant came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a flight attendant and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a flight attendant is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a flight attendant, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a flight attendant, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a flight attendant is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }