{ "model": { "rank": 2598, "code": "thing-q132311", "model_id": "vr.tr.fantasy", "name": "fantasy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain the fantasy genre and its subgenres and conventions, identify works and creators with sources, describe fantasy across media including games, and support readers, viewers, players and writers.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q132311/", "tier": 2, "score": 101, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "contemporary fantasy video game", "science fantasy video game", "dark fantasy video game", "magical girl video game", "low fantasy video game", "urban fantasy video game", "high fantasy video game", "fantasy television program", "isekai anime television program", "werewolf television program", "fantasy epic television program", "dark fantasy television program", "teen fantasy television series", "fantasy television series", "fantasy comedy anime and manga", "science fantasy anime and manga", "high fantasy anime and manga", "sword and sorcery anime and manga", "fantasy anime and manga", "dark fantasy anime and manga", "historical fantasy", "historical high fantasy", "low fantasy", "portal fantasy", "Xianxia novel", "fantasy film", "fantasy epic film", "cinematic fairy tale", "Western Fantasy", "teen fantasy film", "sword and sorcery film", "Barbarian film", "television fairy tale", "fantasy comedy", "Potterfiction", "romantic fantasy", "juvenile fantasy", "Christian fantasy", "fantasy comics", "science fantasy" ], "aliasCount": 80, "merged": 82, "knownIn": 101, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.fantasy-communication", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q132311", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132311", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T02:35:53Z", "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": 2, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q132311", "registryId": "vr.tr.fantasy", "name": "fantasy", "version": "0.2.0-wave.2", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q132311/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.fantasy", "name": "fantasy", "purpose": "Let an agent explain the fantasy genre and its subgenres and conventions, identify works and creators with sources, describe fantasy across media including games, and support readers, viewers, players and writers.", "definition": "A genre of fiction set in imagined worlds or featuring magic, mythical creatures and supernatural elements, in literature, film, television, games and art, with subgenres including high and epic fantasy, low fantasy, urban and contemporary fantasy, dark fantasy, science fantasy and magical girl stories, and forms such as fantasy video games; fantasy draws on myth, folklore and legend and is one of the most popular genres in publishing and media.", "what_it_is_for": "Fiction with magic and imagined worlds.", "affordances": [ "explain the genre and subgenres", "identify works", "describe fantasy across media", "support audiences and writers" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Magic and the supernatural", "Worldbuilding", "Mythic roots", "Cross-media presence" ], "appearance": "Not physical; stories in various media.", "visual_identification": [ "Magic, imagined worlds, supernatural elements", "Draws on myth and folklore", "Science fiction relies on speculative science; horror aims at fear" ], "physical_properties": [], "families_and_kinds": [ "high and epic fantasy", "low and urban fantasy", "dark fantasy and science fantasy", "children and young adult fantasy", "fantasy video games and role-playing games" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "fantasy literature", "why": "category" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "popular culture", "why": "fantasy in mass media" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "fantasy", "why": "the psychological sense of fantasy" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "music", "why": "soundtracks and fantasy in music" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Age ratings for games and films", "Copyright and adaptation rights", "No regulation of the genre" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing the genre with the psychological sense", "Overlooking non-Western fantasy traditions", "Spoilers and misattribution" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What fantasy is.", "rationale": "Literature.", "layers": [ { "id": "genre", "name": "Genre", "description": "Genre and conventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "genre-finding", "name": "Genre", "description": "Genre.", "questions": [ { "text": "What defines fantasy as a genre, and how does it differ from science fiction and horror?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the fiction genre or the psychological sense meant?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "subgenres", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "findings": [ { "id": "subgenres-finding", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do high, low, urban, dark and science fantasy differ, and what other subgenres exist?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific subgenre?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "explore", "name": "Explore", "description": "Works and media.", "rationale": "Reference.", "layers": [ { "id": "works", "name": "Works", "description": "Works and creators.", "findings": [ { "id": "works-finding", "name": "Works", "description": "Works.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which works and creators are central to fantasy in literature, film and television, according to critics and scholars?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific work?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "games", "name": "Games", "description": "Fantasy games.", "findings": [ { "id": "games-finding", "name": "Games", "description": "Games.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does fantasy appear in video games and tabletop games, and what are the main forms?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific game?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "create", "name": "Create", "description": "Writing and worldbuilding.", "rationale": "Practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "write", "name": "Write", "description": "Writing fantasy.", "findings": [ { "id": "write-finding", "name": "Write", "description": "Writing.", "questions": [ { "text": "How can writers approach worldbuilding, magic systems and mythic sources?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which entry fits creative writing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recommend", "name": "Recommend", "description": "Recommendations.", "findings": [ { "id": "recommend-finding", "name": "Recommend", "description": "Recommendations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which fantasy works might suit this reader or player, considering age and taste?", "kind": "action" }, { "text": "Which age ratings apply?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "learn", "name": "Learn", "description": "History and study.", "rationale": "Education.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History of the genre.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did fantasy develop from myth and romance to modern genre fiction, and how do traditions outside the West contribute?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "study", "name": "Study", "description": "Scholarship.", "findings": [ { "id": "study-finding", "name": "Study", "description": "Scholarship.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do scholars analyse fantasy, and what debates exist about its value and themes?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which misconceptions arise?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each subgenre be a separate entry?", "How should bibliographies be linked?", "How should game databases be linked?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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 fantasy, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the fantasy genre and its subgenres and conventions, identify works and creators with sources, describe fantasy across media including games, and support readers, viewers, players and writers.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: contemporary fantasy video game, science fantasy video game, dark fantasy video game, magical girl video game, low fantasy video game, urban fantasy video game, high fantasy video game, fantasy television program, isekai anime television program, werewolf television program, fantasy epic television program, dark fantasy television program.", "82 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 101 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 fantasy, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "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": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. 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": [ "contemporary fantasy video game", "science fantasy video game", "dark fantasy video game", "magical girl video game", "low fantasy video game", "urban fantasy video game", "high fantasy video game", "fantasy television program", "isekai anime television program", "werewolf television program", "fantasy epic television program", "dark fantasy television program" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 101 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 82 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 fantasy from another, and a fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy 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 fantasy between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy 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 fantasy contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 fantasy is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a fantasy, 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 fantasy, 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 fantasy 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 } } } }