{ "model": { "rank": 4563, "code": "thing-q102113", "model_id": "vr.tr.grand-slam", "name": "Grand Slam", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, assess and qualify a claimed Grand Slam by identifying the required achievements, completion window and applicable recognition convention.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q102113/", "tier": 2, "score": 74, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 74, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q102113", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102113", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:30:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 15.3, "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: 01a087dc-f997-7fc1-8de1-1536ee87c412\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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tournaments.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally models Grand Slam as a tennis achievement involving completion of a specified set of major championships; it distinguishes that achievement from the designation of an individual tournament and leaves the registry's intended sense unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "The championship set required by a stated tennis Grand Slam convention", "Calendar-year, career and other explicitly qualified completion claims", "The player, partnership and competitive category to which a claim applies", "Results and timing that establish progress or completion", "Recognition, disputed interpretations and evidence supporting a claim" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Operation and scheduling of individual tennis tournaments", "Tennis match rules, tactics and scoring", "General player biographies and ranking systems", "Grand slam as a baseball scoring event", "Grand slam in bridge or achievement conventions in other sports", "Non-sporting uses of the name Grand 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convention." }, { "name": "Completion interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Dated start and end boundaries, with the calendar or season convention identified", "why_it_matters": "The interval separates time-bounded completion from accumulation over a career." }, { "name": "Qualifying coverage", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of distinct required championships won / number required", "why_it_matters": "Repeated wins at one championship must not conceal a missing championship." }, { "name": "Claim assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "incomplete | complete under stated convention | disputed | insufficient evidence", "why_it_matters": "An agent needs to distinguish demonstrated completion from an unsupported or contested claim." }, { "name": "Recognition basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed governing-body, tournament, historical or statistical reference", "why_it_matters": "Terminology and recognition should remain traceable to the authority using them." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate an occurrence of Grand Slam before attaching an achievement claim.", "Evaluate a player's or partnership's results against a specified championship set and completion window.", "Identify missing championships and whether completion remains possible within a stated window.", "Compare calendar-year, career and consecutive-title interpretations of the same results.", "Generate a precisely qualified achievement description with supporting evidence.", "Flag claims that combine incompatible categories, unsupported results or conflicting recognition conventions." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "grand-slam-meaning", "name": "Grand Slam meaning", "description": "Establishes which use of Grand Slam the registry entry and each claim refer to.", "rationale": "The missing registry definition makes sense selection a prerequisite to evaluating an achievement.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Separates the provisional tennis achievement interpretation from other meanings.", "findings": [ { "id": "achievement-or-designation", "name": "Achievement or tournament designation", "description": "Record whether Grand Slam denotes completion of a championship set or describes a tournament's status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the upstream registry record identify a tennis achievement, a tournament category or another meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "achievement-or-designation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes winning a Grand Slam tournament from achieving a Grand Slam in this usage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "achievement-or-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "qualified-conventions", "name": "Qualified conventions", "description": "Captures the completion convention and the source responsible for its terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-wording", "name": "Claim wording and definition", "description": "Preserve qualifications such as career or calendar-year and attribute the corresponding definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact completion rule does the source attach to the phrase Grand Slam and any accompanying qualifier?", "kind": "definition", "id": "claim-wording-q01" }, { "text": "Do relevant authorities disagree about applying the unqualified phrase to titles accumulated across calendar years?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claim-wording-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "required-championships", "name": "Required championships", "description": "Defines the championship set and the competitive category within which completion is evaluated.", "rationale": "A Grand Slam depends on coverage of particular championships, not simply a total number of tournament wins.", "layers": [ { "id": "championship-set", "name": "Championship set", "description": "Identifies the required events under the relevant convention and historical period.", "findings": [ { "id": "required-event-identities", "name": "Required event identities", "description": "Resolve each required championship to an enduring event identity while preserving edition-specific names and conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which championships constitute the required set for this claim's period and convention?", "kind": "definition", "id": "required-event-identities-q01" }, { "text": "How should renamed, cancelled, rescheduled or structurally changed editions affect the required set?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "required-event-identities-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "category-and-bearer", "name": "Category and bearer", "description": "Determines which competitive results may belong to one achievement.", "findings": [ { "id": "permitted-result-combination", "name": "Permitted combination of results", "description": "Record whether the achievement belongs to a player or partnership and whether all wins must share a discipline and division.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which discipline, division and eligibility class must the championship wins share?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-result-combination-q01" }, { "text": "For a doubles claim, may an individual combine wins with different partners, or must the same partnership win the required set?", "kind": "definition", "id": "permitted-result-combination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "completion-and-timing", "name": "Completion and timing", "description": "Evaluates championship coverage, order and dates against the chosen achievement rule.", "rationale": "The same wins can satisfy one Grand Slam convention while failing another because timing and sequence matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "completion-window", "name": "Completion window", "description": "Makes calendar, career and consecutive-edition constraints explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "temporal-qualification", "name": "Temporal qualification", "description": "Use the selected convention to determine whether the qualifying titles fall within the permitted interval and sequence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this claim require one calendar year, an uninterrupted sequence of championship editions or completion across a career?", "kind": "definition", "id": "temporal-qualification-q01" }, { "text": "Which dates or edition labels determine inclusion when a championship is postponed across a calendar boundary?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "temporal-qualification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-progress", "name": "Coverage and progress", "description": "Separates distinct championship coverage from repeated wins and identifies remaining requirements.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-test", "name": "Completion test", "description": "Match verified wins to every required championship and retain the specific unmet conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which required championships have qualifying wins, and which remain missing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "completion-test-q01" }, { "text": "Given the remaining editions and current results, can this attempt still satisfy its stated completion window?", "kind": "action", "id": "completion-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-recognition", "name": "Evidence and recognition", "description": "Supports achievement assessments with result records and attributed recognition decisions.", "rationale": "A plausible collection of titles and an externally recognised Grand Slam claim are related but independently checkable.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-result-evidence", "name": "Qualifying result evidence", "description": "Connects every counted title to a result record for the correct bearer, category and edition.", "findings": [ { "id": "title-verification", "name": "Title verification", "description": "Retain evidence establishing each championship win and any correction affecting whether it counts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which official or historical result record establishes each required title for this player or partnership?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "title-verification-q01" }, { "text": "Does any corrected result, disqualification or disputed attribution change the qualifying championship coverage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "title-verification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-reporting", "name": "Recognition and reporting", "description": "Distinguishes rule-based assessment from source-attributed recognition and determines defensible wording.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualified-achievement-report", "name": "Qualified achievement report", "description": "Report completion with its convention and evidence, preserving disagreements over terminology or recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority explicitly recognises this achievement, and what wording does it use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualified-achievement-report-q01" }, { "text": "What qualification or unresolved-evidence statement must accompany the claim before an agent presents it as established?", "kind": "action", "id": "qualified-achievement-report-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": [ "No sense was supplied; tennis is a provisional interpretation, and ACT.ACT alone does not resolve the ambiguity.", "These statements are recalled knowledge, not researched findings; no sources were consulted.", "Before formal use, check the applicable rule-book edition and discipline-specific treatment of doubles partnerships and wheelchair competition." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": [ "Calendar-year Grand Slam", "Career Grand Slam: winning all four major titles over a career", "Non-calendar-year Grand Slam: holding all four major titles consecutively across calendar years" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": [ "Rules of Tennis - International Tennis Federation (ITF)", "Grand Slam Rule Book - Grand Slam Board" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": [ "Classifying players' achievements across the four major tennis championships", "Distinguishing a calendar-year sweep from a career collection of major titles", "Describing individual major tournaments and their titles in tennis reporting" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Grand Slam this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Distinct major championships won toward a Grand Slam", "typical_range": "0-4; completion requires all 4", "unit": "championships" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": [ "Confusing winning one Grand Slam tournament with completing the Grand Slam", "Treating a career Grand Slam as equivalent to a calendar-year Grand Slam", "Combining titles from different disciplines when evaluating completion", "Comparing achievements across eras without accounting for eligibility and tournament access" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": [ "In North American baseball usage, a grand slam is a home run hit with all three bases occupied.", "In Six Nations rugby usage, a Grand Slam means winning every match in that year's championship." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Grand Slam 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": "Grand Slam tournament", "difference": "One of the four major tennis championships; winning one does not constitute the four-event achievement." }, { "name": "Golden Slam", "difference": "Adds an Olympic gold medal to the four major tennis titles; calendar-year and career usages must be distinguished." }, { "name": "Grand slam in contract bridge", "difference": "A contract to win all thirteen tricks, rather than a tennis achievement." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Grand Slam this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.grand-slam identify the tennis achievement, the tennis tournament designation or a different sporting sense in its upstream record?", "Which authoritative definitions distinguish unqualified, calendar-year, career and consecutive-across-years Grand Slam claims?", "How do recognised achievement conventions vary across singles, doubles, mixed doubles, junior and wheelchair categories, particularly when partners change?", "What historical championship changes or eligibility restrictions require period-specific treatment of the required set?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the intended concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it instead of supporting a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "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 Grand Slam, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to recognise, assess and qualify a claimed Grand Slam by identifying the required achievements, completion window and applicable recognition convention.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 74 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 Grand Slam, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "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": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 74 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 Grand Slam from another, and a Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Grand Slam proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a Grand Slam, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a Grand Slam and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Grand Slam, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a Grand Slam, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a Grand Slam is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a Grand Slam consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Grand Slam takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a Grand Slam, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a Grand Slam, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a Grand Slam is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What Grand Slam is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of Grand Slam are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is Grand Slam operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of Grand Slam and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of Grand Slam?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as Grand Slam?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam 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 Grand Slam is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam, 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 Grand Slam is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }