{ "model": { "rank": 6353, "code": "thing-q1040689", "model_id": "vr.tr.synonym", "name": "synonym", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a claimed synonym relationship, judge where the expressions are interchangeable, and decide whether substitution or retrieval expansion is appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1040689/", "tier": 2, "score": 61, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "senior synonym", "protonym", "non-preferred term", "schanze", "homotypic synonym", "heterotypic synonym", "junior synonym", "basionym", "homotypic basionym" ], "aliasCount": 9, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 61, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1040689", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1040689", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:57:05Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00268056, "turns": 1, "seconds": 28.6, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 71.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c27-7095-7e31-9b5f-156122035857\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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indexing can map many surface strings onto one concept.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the context-bounded relationship between expressions in specified senses that are claimed to have the same or sufficiently similar meaning, including evidence, limits and permitted uses.", "in_scope": [ "The expressions, language varieties and particular senses participating in a synonym relationship", "The shared meaning and differences that qualify or limit equivalence", "Contexts in which substitution preserves the intended meaning and communicative effect", "Evidence supporting, challenging or restricting the synonym claim", "Suitability for rewriting, search expansion and terminology alignment" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete dictionary entries and the full sense inventory of each expression", "Entity aliases, identifiers and redirects whose equivalence rests solely on naming the same entity", "Cross-language translation equivalence", "Broader, narrower, opposite and merely associated concept relationships", "Spelling variants and abbreviations whose relationship rests solely on form or expansion", "General document interpretation and generation beyond evaluating synonym use" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The relationship identifies particular senses: sharing one meaning does not make every use of either expression equivalent.", "A candidate must share the relevant meaning, rather than merely occur in the same topic or describe a related concept.", "Naming the same individual is insufficient: co-reference alone does not establish synonymy.", "Substitution must be assessed in a specified context; changes in implication, register or grammatical fit can make a candidate unsuitable.", "A broader or narrower expression does not become a synonym merely because both happen to describe the same instance." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Participating expressions and senses", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Two or more expressions, each linked to an identified 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an assessed claim an agent may rely on." } ], "affordances": [ "Propose a synonym candidate for a specified sense and context.", "Test substitution in both directions and retain failures as boundary evidence.", "Expand a search with a synonym while preserving the original expression and intended sense.", "Rewrite an expression when semantic, grammatical and pragmatic constraints are satisfied.", "Narrow, contest or reject a synonym claim when evidence exposes a meaning difference.", "Assemble a sense-specific synonym set while checking each member against the declared shared meaning." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "iso-25964-1", "title": "ISO 25964-1:2011 Information and documentation - Thesauri and interoperability with other vocabularies - Part 1: Thesauri for information retrieval", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/53657.html", "what_it_supports": "Defines preferred vs non-preferred terms and the USE/UF synonym relationship as the information-retrieval standard for synonyms in controlled vocabularies.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "skos-ref", "title": "SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference", "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/", "what_it_supports": "W3C Recommendation treating lexical labels (prefLabel, altLabel, hiddenLabel) as the machine-readable counterpart of thesaurus synonyms.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "nlm-umls", "title": "UMLS Reference Manual - Metathesaurus", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9684/", "what_it_supports": "Shows how medical informatics treats synonymous atoms from many source vocabularies as one concept (CUI), which is the INF.MED operational sense.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "iczn-glossary", "title": "International Code of Zoological Nomenclature - Glossary (synonym, senior/junior, objective/subjective)", "url": "https://www.iczn.org/the-code/the-code-online/", "what_it_supports": "Distinguishes nomenclatural synonymy from lexical synonymy; a frequent neighbour and source of 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"kind": "boundary", "id": "expression-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sense-anchoring", "name": "Sense anchoring", "description": "Restricts each participant to the meaning relevant to the claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-sense", "name": "Intended sense", "description": "Identifies the sense of each expression and examples that distinguish it from other senses.", "questions": [ { "text": "What sense of each expression is intended, and how can it be described without using the other expression as its sole definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which ambiguous or alternative readings must be excluded before this synonym relationship can be applied?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-sense-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "meaning-equivalence", "name": "Meaning equivalence", "description": "Assesses the common meaning and the semantic differences between the specified senses.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish interchangeable meaning from overlap, association and differences in specificity.", "layers": [ { "id": "shared-semantic-content", "name": "Shared semantic content", "description": "Makes the asserted equivalence explicit enough to evaluate.", "findings": [ { "id": "equivalence-claim", "name": "Equivalence claim", "description": "States what meaning is shared and whether the claim is strict or qualified.", "questions": [ { "text": "What meaning is claimed to remain unchanged when one expression replaces the other?", "kind": "definition", "id": "equivalence-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Does the intended use require equivalent meaning, or permit near-equivalence with specified losses?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "equivalence-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "semantic-differences", "name": "Semantic differences", "description": "Captures distinctions that prevent unrestricted equivalence.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-changing-contrasts", "name": "Meaning-changing contrasts", "description": "Records differences in specificity, implication, intensity or applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can either expression apply where the other cannot because it is broader, narrower or carries an additional implication?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-changing-contrasts-q01" }, { "text": "Which contrasting examples demonstrate a meaning change, and where were those examples obtained?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "meaning-changing-contrasts-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "substitution-conditions", "name": "Substitution conditions", "description": "Determines where replacement works in actual linguistic and social contexts.", "rationale": "Shared meaning alone does not establish that a replacement fits a sentence, audience or communicative purpose.", "layers": [ { "id": "grammatical-and-collocational-fit", "name": "Grammatical and collocational fit", "description": "Examines constructions, inflection and conventional combinations that constrain replacement.", "findings": [ { "id": "replacement-fit", "name": "Replacement fit", "description": "Assesses each substitution direction and any necessary grammatical adjustments.", "questions": [ { "text": "In which constructions or fixed combinations does replacement succeed or fail in each direction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "replacement-fit-q01" }, { "text": "What changes to inflection, complements or surrounding wording are needed for an acceptable replacement?", "kind": "action", "id": "replacement-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "register-and-community", "name": "Register and community", "description": "Assesses domain, audience and expressive differences.", "findings": [ { "id": "communicative-fit", "name": "Communicative fit", "description": "Records whether substitution preserves the intended tone and community-specific interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which domain, region, audience and period delimit the claimed equivalence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "communicative-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Would replacement alter formality, politeness, emotional force or evaluative stance for the intended audience?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "communicative-fit-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "synonymy-evidence", "name": "Synonymy evidence", "description": "Connects the synonym claim to attributable judgments, observed usage and counterexamples.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish a suggested synonym from a relationship supported for a particular sense and use.", "layers": [ { "id": "supporting-attestations", "name": "Supporting attestations", "description": "Records what supports equivalence and what scope that evidence actually covers.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-support", "name": "Attributed support", "description": "Associates supporting material with the precise senses and contexts assessed.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which consulted lexical resources, usage examples or speaker judgments support this specific sense pairing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-support-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish substitutability, explicitly assert synonymy, or merely show related usage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tests-and-counterexamples", "name": "Tests and counterexamples", "description": "Preserves the method and limits of substitution assessments.", "findings": [ { "id": "assessed-substitutions", "name": "Assessed substitutions", "description": "Records successful and failed replacements without generalising beyond the assessed sample.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many substitutions were assessed in each direction, using which contexts and acceptance criteria?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assessed-substitutions-q01" }, { "text": "Which failures or conflicting judgments require narrowing, contesting or rejecting the claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assessed-substitutions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "use-and-set-membership", "name": "Use and set membership", "description": "Turns the assessed 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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. 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Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "senior synonym", "protonym", "non-preferred term", "schanze", "homotypic synonym", "heterotypic synonym", "junior synonym", "basionym", "homotypic basionym" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 61 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 synonym from another, and a synonym 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 synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym 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 synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym 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 synonym between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a synonym 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 synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a synonym says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a synonym contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a synonym, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a synonym, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a synonym is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a synonym and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a synonym, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a synonym, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a synonym is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of synonym a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For synonym, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of synonym exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made synonym and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to synonym, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in synonym, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a synonym 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 synonym and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 synonym is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a synonym, 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 synonym, 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 synonym 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 } } } }