nationalist
Enable an agent to recognise and document a person's explicitly evidenced nationalist commitments, distinguish their forms and contexts, and assess relevant actions without inferring political beliefs from demographic traits.
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5 bundles · 9 layers · 14 findings · 22 questions
Nationalist identification Establishes what the label means for this person and who applies it.
Label and attribution
Separates self-identification from descriptions supplied by others.
Basis of identification
Record the exact nationalist identification, its speaker or author, and whether the person accepts or disputes it.
- Does the person explicitly identify as nationalist, or does a named source apply the label? provenance
- What meaning does the speaker or source assign to nationalist in this context? definition
Context and duration
Locates identification in a language, historical setting and supported period.
Situated identification
Preserve the original terminology and dates rather than assuming that translated or historical labels have a single stable meaning.
- When, where and in what original language was the identification expressed? provenance
- What evidence supports continued identification, a change of position or an explicit renunciation? boundary
Nation and belonging Identifies the national community invoked and the person's expressed boundaries of membership.
National referent
Resolves which nation or national communities the person invokes.
Claimed national community
Record the community's stated name and how the person relates it to territory, institutions and other national identities.
- Which nation does the person name as the subject of collective interests or self-determination? definition
- Does that nation coincide with an existing state, span several states or occupy only part of one? boundary
Membership and inclusion
Captures explicit accounts of who belongs and how membership can be acquired or recognised.
Expressed belonging rules
Document stated membership criteria and treatment of overlapping identities without assigning criteria from the person's background.
- What criteria does the person explicitly give for belonging to the nation? definition
- How do their statements address newcomers, minorities and people with multiple national identities? boundary
National political project Describes the person's expressed objectives for national power, recognition and political organisation.
Sovereignty and territory
Records desired political authority and any stated territorial implications.
Desired political arrangement
Identify the proposed arrangement and distinguish explicit territorial claims from unspecified aspirations.
- What political arrangement does the person seek for the nation, and through which institutions? definition
- Do their stated aims preserve or alter existing borders, jurisdiction or constitutional authority? boundary
Rights and competing claims
Examines stated treatment of individual rights and other communities' political claims.
Limits on national priority
Record how the person articulates national interests alongside dissent, equal rights and other nations' self-determination.
- What limits, if any, does the person explicitly place on pursuing national interests? definition
- What evidence establishes their position on equal rights, internal dissent and competing national claims? provenance
Nationalist practice and evidence Connects identification to documented participation while controlling unsupported conclusions.
Participation and means
Records specific activities, roles and affiliations relevant to the person's nationalist commitments.
Documented nationalist participation
Describe evidenced participation and the basis for connecting it to a national political project.
- Which documented activities or affiliations are explicitly connected to the person's nationalist aims? provenance
- What means does the person advocate, and which means are independently documented as conduct? action
Classification and use
Sets evidentiary boundaries for recording and using a person's political identification.
Supported classification boundary
Keep nationalist identification attributed and revisable; do not infer it from demographic proxies or use it as evidence of unrelated conduct.
- Would the classification still be supported if ancestry, language, residence and citizenship were removed from the evidence? boundary
- What can the agent record or conclude from the explicit evidence, and what must remain unknown? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of nationalist this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.LIV
- Other names and narrower kinds
- ultranationalist, white nationalist, Black nationalist, national syndicalist
What it is Filled
A nationalist is a person who supports nationalism, treating a nation as a central basis of collective identity and political legitimacy and advocating its interests, autonomy or self-government.
In scope
- Explicit self-identification and source-attributed identification as nationalist
- The nation invoked and the person's expressed criteria for national membership
- Stated commitments concerning national interests, sovereignty and self-determination
- Expressed positions on national membership, pluralism and relations with other nations
- Documented activities and affiliations connected to nationalist commitments
- Changes, disagreements and uncertainty in the identification over time
Out of scope
- Nationalism as an ideology independent of an individual adherent
- Nations, ethnic groups and populations as collective entities
- Citizenship, nationality and ancestry as independent personal attributes
- Political parties, nationalist movements and state institutions as organisations
- Patriotism without evidence of a nationalist identification or commitment
- Biological taxonomy, habitat and conservation status
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise and document a person's explicitly evidenced nationalist commitments, distinguish their forms and contexts, and assess relevant actions without inferring political beliefs from demographic traits.
Distinguishing features Filled
- The referent is a person described in relation to nationalism, rather than the ideology, a nation or a nationalist organisation.
- An identification must be supported by explicit self-description or a clearly attributed source; citizenship, language, ancestry and residence do not establish it.
- Affection for a country alone does not resolve the classification; the model records whether a nationalist label or an articulated political commitment concerning a nation is present.
- Support for an existing state and advocacy for a nation without a state must remain distinguishable.
- A nationalist identification alone does not establish ethnic exclusion, authoritarianism, supremacism or support for violence; each requires separate evidence.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Label a person a nationalist without evidence of their stated views.
- Equate all nationalism with extremism or all patriotism with nationalism.
- Produce propaganda that promotes hatred or violence against other nations or minorities.
- Profile people's political views from their ethnicity or name.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing labels about a private person's political views.
May
- Explain nationalism and the range of nationalist views, citing scholarly sources.
- Describe a public figure's stated nationalist positions with sources.
Moral aspects Filled
- Nationalism has driven both liberation movements and persecution of minorities.
- Political views are sensitive personal data in many places.
Who is affected
- People labelled nationalists
- Minorities
- Neighbouring peoples
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a person; each person answers for their own views.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q11499147 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.nationalist
- Wikidata: Q106399618 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106399618)
Direct properties required Filled
- Identification basis: self-identified | attributed by a named source | both | disputed | unresolved
- Nation of reference: Named nation or national community, allowing multiple or contested referents
- Expressed national membership criteria: Recorded criteria such as citizenship, civic participation, culture, language, descent, religion or combinations; unspecified permitted
- Stated political objective: Independence | autonomy | unification | preservation of state sovereignty | territorial revision | cultural recognition | other stated objective | unspecified; multiple permitted
- Relation to existing states: Relevant states and the person's documented position toward their authority or boundaries
- Expressed rights and inclusion position: Source-supported positions concerning minorities, dissenters, migrants and equal political rights; unknown or contested permitted
- Documented means of pursuit: Electoral participation | advocacy | cultural activity | protest | institutional action | other documented means | unknown
- Temporal applicability: Dated statement or episode, supported interval, historical identification, renounced identification or unresolved continuity
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Political commitments cannot be established from visual appearance and require explicit statements or other contextual evidence.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Record a person's explicit nationalist self-description with its date, context and source.
- Compare attributed labels with the person's own statements while preserving disagreement.
- Identify the nation, political objectives and membership criteria explicitly invoked.
- Distinguish documented commitments and conduct from assumptions attached to the nationalist label.
- Trace changes in identification, aims and affiliations across dated evidence.
- Answer source-grounded questions about stated positions while leaving unsupported political classifications unresolved.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Assigning nationalist beliefs from a person's ethnicity, language or appearance can produce false classifications and discriminatory treatment.
- Recording or exposing political affiliations without appropriate safeguards can enable harassment, surveillance or retaliation.
- Treating all nationalist movements as equivalent can obscure differences in goals and conduct and distort assessments of individuals.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- The General Data Protection Regulation, adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, treats personal data revealing political opinions as a special category subject to specific processing restrictions where the regulation applies.
Context of use required Filled
- The term is used in political history, public debate and research to describe people whose stated commitments emphasize national interests, independence or self-government.
- Its interpretation depends on the particular movement and historical setting, including whether the person advocates liberation, state unity or exclusionary national policies.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q106399618: nationalist - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Nationalist - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does the originating registry record intend a person with nationalist commitments, a member of a specifically named political faction, or another historical sense?
- Should PHY / PHY.LIV remain the placement for the person referent, with nationalist identification represented as a social relation or role?
- What operational boundary should distinguish nationalism from patriotism and support for national self-determination when the person does not use the nationalist label?
- Which existing Vercy models cover personhood, political identification and nationalism, and therefore should supply shared concepts rather than be duplicated?
- How should conflicting translations, hostile attributions and outdated identifications be adjudicated while retaining their provenance?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q106399618/spec.json