{ "model": { "rank": 2823, "code": "thing-q104641", "model_id": "vr.tr.full-moon", "name": "full moon", "purpose": "Let an agent handle full moons by date, astronomy, names attributed to their cultures, eclipses and observing, and address myths with evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q104641/", "tier": 2, "score": 96, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "micromoon", "snow moon", "Paschal Full Moon", "hunter's moon", "black moon", "beaver moon", "corn moon", "cold moon", "wolf moon", "worm moon", "pink moon", "flower moon", "strawberry moon", "buck moon", "sturgeon moon", "blood moon", "Ecclesiastical full moon", "supermoon" ], "aliasCount": 18, "merged": 19, "knownIn": 96, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q104641", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104641", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T14:03:06Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 1, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q104641", "registryId": "vr.tr.full-moon", "name": "full moon", "version": "0.2.0-wave.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q104641/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.full-moon", "name": "full moon", "purpose": "Let an agent handle full moons by date, astronomy, names attributed to their cultures, eclipses and observing, and address myths with evidence.", "definition": "The lunar phase when the Moon is opposite the Sun as seen from Earth and its visible face is fully illuminated, recurring about every 29.5 days; full moons have traditional names, and related terms include supermoon, micromoon, blue moon and the Paschal full moon used to date Easter. Lunar eclipses occur only at full moon.", "what_it_is_for": "Astronomy, calendars, culture and observing.", "affordances": [ "find full moon dates and times", "explain phases and supermoons", "explain lunar eclipses", "describe cultural names with attribution" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Moon opposite the Sun", "Fully lit face", "Roughly monthly", "Only time for lunar eclipses" ], "appearance": "A bright, round, fully lit Moon rising at sunset and setting at sunrise.", "visual_identification": [ "Fully illuminated disc", "Rises around sunset", "Gibbous phases are nearly full" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "synodic month", "typical_range": "about 29.53", "unit": "days", "note": "average interval between full moons" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "supermoons and micromoons", "blue moons", "traditional named full moons", "Paschal full moon", "eclipse full moons" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "lunar phase", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "lunar eclipse", "why": "event" }, { "relation": "is used in", "target": "computus", "why": "Easter calculation" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "inferior and superior planets", "why": "observing geometry" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Almanac standards of national observatories" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Myths about behaviour and health effects", "Time zone errors for dates" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "dates", "name": "Dates", "description": "When it occurs.", "rationale": "Times depend on zone.", "layers": [ { "id": "next", "name": "Next", "description": "Next full moon.", "findings": [ { "id": "next-finding", "name": "Next", "description": "Next full moon.", "questions": [ { "text": "When is the next full moon, in local time, according to an observatory almanac?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "When does it rise here?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "special", "name": "Special", "description": "Supermoons and blue moons.", "findings": [ { "id": "special-finding", "name": "Special", "description": "Special full moons.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this full moon a supermoon, micromoon or blue moon, and by which definition?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How much larger does a supermoon appear?", "kind": "measurement" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "astronomy", "name": "Astronomy", "description": "Explanation.", "rationale": "Geometry explains phases.", "layers": [ { "id": "phases", "name": "Phases", "description": "Why full.", "findings": [ { "id": "phases-finding", "name": "Phases", "description": "Phases.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why is the Moon full when it is opposite the Sun?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Why is there not an eclipse every month?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "eclipse", "name": "Eclipse", "description": "Lunar eclipses.", "findings": [ { "id": "eclipse-finding", "name": "Eclipse", "description": "Lunar eclipses.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is there a lunar eclipse at this full moon, and where is it visible?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is it safe to view with the naked eye?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Names and calendars.", "rationale": "Names are attributed.", "layers": [ { "id": "names", "name": "Names", "description": "Traditional names.", "findings": [ { "id": "names-finding", "name": "Names", "description": "Traditional names.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which culture uses this full moon name, according to sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the name widely documented or recently popularised?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "calendars", "name": "Calendars", "description": "Religious calendars.", "findings": [ { "id": "calendars-finding", "name": "Calendars", "description": "Religious calendars.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do full moons set dates in religious calendars, such as Easter or lunar festivals, according to those traditions?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which calculation rules apply?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "myths", "name": "Myths", "description": "Claims and observing.", "rationale": "Evidence matters.", "layers": [ { "id": "behaviour", "name": "Behaviour", "description": "Claimed effects.", "findings": [ { "id": "behaviour-finding", "name": "Behaviour", "description": "Claimed effects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does research support claims that the full moon affects sleep, behaviour or hospital admissions?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "How strong is the evidence?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observe", "name": "Observe", "description": "Photography.", "findings": [ { "id": "observe-finding", "name": "Observe", "description": "Observing.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can the full moon be photographed well?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "When is moonrise best for photos?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should named moons be separate entries?", "How should almanac data be linked?", "How should cultural names be attributed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "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 full moon, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle full moons by date, astronomy, names attributed to their cultures, eclipses and observing, and address myths with evidence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: micromoon, snow moon, Paschal Full Moon, hunter's moon, black moon, beaver moon, corn moon, cold moon, wolf moon, worm moon, pink moon, flower moon.", "19 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 96 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 full moon, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ { "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": [ "micromoon", "snow moon", "Paschal Full Moon", "hunter's moon", "black moon", "beaver moon", "corn moon", "cold moon", "wolf moon", "worm moon", "pink moon", "flower moon" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 96 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 19 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 full moon from another, and a full moon 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 full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a full moon 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 full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon 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 full moon?", "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 full moon?", "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 full moon 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 full moon and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon 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 full moon is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a full moon, 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 full moon, 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 full moon is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }