{ "model": { "rank": 2896, "code": "thing-q133356", "model_id": "vr.tr.ukrainian-soviet-socialist-republic", "name": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in a dated record, assess its territorial and institutional state, and determine which authorities and continuity claims apply.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q133356/", "tier": 2, "score": 95, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 95, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q133356", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133356", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T13:34:57Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00833, "turns": 1, "seconds": 131.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 86.7, "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: 01a07c0f-c5e7-7bf0-a49d-fc6b147e076d\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic\nRegistry id: vr.tr.ukrainian-soviet-socialist-republic\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (none r" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q133356", "registryId": "vr.tr.ukrainian-soviet-socialist-republic", "name": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q133356/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.ukrainian-soviet-socialist-republic", "name": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in a dated record, assess its territorial and institutional state, and determine which authorities and continuity claims apply.", "definition": "The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was a Union republic of the USSR from the Union treaty of 30 December 1922 until the Union's dissolution in 1991 (and a Bolshevik soviet republic from 1919), a nominally sovereign socialist state with its own constitutions and republican organs, separate United Nations membership from 1945, and a territory that, after the 1939-45 western annexations and the 1954 transfer of Crimea, became that of independent Ukraine.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the historical political identity registered as vr.tr.ukrainian-soviet-socialist-republic, including its changing jurisdiction, institutions, relationship to the USSR, international representation and transition to Ukraine; the unexplained INF / INF.MED classification remains a research question.", "in_scope": [ "Dated names, constitutional identities and disputed inception boundaries of Soviet Ukraine", "Republic territory, administrative jurisdiction and interruptions of effective control", "Republic institutions, Communist Party direction and allocation of authority within the USSR", "Republic-level population categories, economic administration and policy implementation", "International representation and the differentiated transitions associated with Ukrainian independence" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The USSR's complete institutional and territorial history", "Independent Ukraine's subsequent governance and contemporary territorial disputes", "The Ukrainian People's Republic and other competing Ukrainian state projects as separate entities", "Ukrainian ethnicity, language and culture beyond their treatment by republic institutions", "Complete biographies, military campaign histories and individual enterprise records" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A record must identify the Ukrainian Soviet republic through its date, institutional issuer and jurisdiction; a reference to Ukraine or Ukrainian people alone is insufficient.", "Republic institutions must be distinguished from USSR institutions and from the Communist Party organizations directing them.", "Territorial matching must use the boundary applicable to the record's date, rather than projecting contemporary Ukraine backward.", "Separate UN representation does not by itself establish full independence from the USSR: the Ukrainian SSR appears among the UN's original members. [UN membership history](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/growth-in-un-membership)", "References around 1991 require an explicit continuity test: the UN records a name change to Ukraine, which does not alone settle every constitutional or institutional transition. [UN Ukraine membership record](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states/ukraine)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Historical identity phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Early Soviet state formation; USSR constituent republic; sovereignty transition; historical designation, each with evidenced dates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents treating the republic's entire existence as one unchanging political arrangement." }, { "name": "Attested designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Original-language name, abbreviation or translated name, qualified by language and period", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition without confusing translation variants with separate registered things." }, { "name": "Republic-Union competence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Republic authority; Union authority; shared competence; disputed competence, qualified by function and date", "why_it_matters": "Determines which institution could formally authorize a particular action." }, { "name": "Effective decision authority", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named republic organ, Union organ or party body, with evidence of direction or implementation", "why_it_matters": "Separates formal constitutional powers from the exercise of political control." }, { "name": "Territorial jurisdiction", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated territory linked as claimed, legally assigned, administered or occupied", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a territorial claim or transfer instrument from being mistaken for effective control." }, { "name": "Population under the recorded boundary", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, qualified by census or estimate date, territorial coverage and counting method", "why_it_matters": "Makes population comparisons interpretable across border and statistical changes." }, { "name": "Economic administrative subordination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Republic, Union or mixed supervision of a specified sector or institution during a stated interval", "why_it_matters": "Avoids equating an enterprise's Ukrainian location with republic control." }, { "name": "External representational capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Capacity claimed; legally granted; exercised in a named forum; constrained; uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes international participation from independent foreign-policy authority." }, { "name": "Continuity into Ukraine", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Continuity, replacement, renaming, transfer or unresolved succession for a specified institution or obligation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents one transition date from deciding every question of legal and institutional continuity." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a dated name or institutional reference to this registry entry while preserving ambiguous matches.", "Reconstruct the republic's jurisdiction and administrative configuration for a specified date.", "Trace an act through republic, Union and party authorities to assess attribution and competence.", "Compare constitutional powers with documented institutional practice.", "Assess whether a statistical comparison remains valid across territorial or administrative changes.", "Trace a specific institution, obligation or international representation into Ukraine without assuming universal continuity." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "ussr-treaty-1922", "title": "Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 30 December 1922. RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and Transcaucasian SFSR", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The Ukrainian SSR's status as a founding Union republic rather than a province of Russia." }, { "id": "ukr-ssr-const-1978", "title": "Constitution of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1978). Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Late-Soviet republican institutions, the claim of sovereignty within the Union, and the legal frame superseded in 1990-91." }, { "id": "census-1989", "title": "Itogi Vsesoiuznoi perepisi naseleniia 1989 goda (Results of the 1989 All-Union Population Census). Goskomstat of the USSR", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Late-Soviet population of the Ukrainian SSR (about 51.7 million) and the territorial statistical frame including Crimea." }, { "id": "sovereignty-1990", "title": "Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, 16 July 1990, No. 55-XII. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The republican legislature's assertion of sovereignty while still inside the USSR, the bridge from Union republic to independent state." }, { "id": "independence-1991", "title": "Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, 24 August 1991, No. 1427-XII. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "The legal end of the Ukrainian SSR as a Union republic and Ukraine's claim of continuity of state personality." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "soviet-ukrainian-identity", "name": "Soviet Ukrainian identity", "description": "Recognize the republic across changes in designation and political status.", "rationale": "The name Ukraine spans competing state projects and successive political arrangements.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-identification", "name": "Names and identification", "description": "Resolve names through dated institutional context.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-republic-designation", "name": "Attested republic designation", "description": "Record the name actually used and the issuer identifying the Soviet Ukrainian republic.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Ukrainian, Russian or translated designation appears, and when was it used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-republic-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Which dated document and issuing institution establish that this reference denotes the Ukrainian Soviet republic?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-republic-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "formation-and-continuity", "name": "Formation and continuity", "description": "Distinguish early Soviet formations, Union membership and later continuity.", "findings": [ { "id": "historical-identity-boundary", "name": "Historical identity boundary", "description": "Represent competing inception conventions explicitly rather than silently choosing a founding date.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which event establishes the beginning of this entity under the source's chosen criterion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "historical-identity-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects earlier Soviet Ukrainian formations to the later Union republic?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "historical-identity-boundary-q02" }, { "text": "Does the registry treat those formations as phases of this entry or as linked predecessors?", "kind": "definition", "id": "historical-identity-boundary-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "territory-and-administration", "name": "Territory and administration", "description": "Establish where republic jurisdiction applied and how it was administered.", "rationale": "Border changes and wartime disruptions make undated geographic identification unreliable.", "layers": [ { "id": "territorial-change", "name": "Territorial change", "description": "Trace territorial additions, removals and changes in control.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-territorial-assignment", "name": "Dated territorial assignment", "description": "Record each relevant change, including the Crimea transfer, with separate legal and administrative milestones.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which instruments establish the territory assigned to the republic at the requested date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-territorial-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Did legal assignment, administrative incorporation and effective control begin at different times?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-territorial-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "internal-jurisdiction", "name": "Internal jurisdiction", "description": "Locate authority within changing republic subdivisions and administrative centers.", "findings": [ { "id": "administrative-location", "name": "Administrative location", "description": "Identify the contemporary subdivision, administrative center and governing body relevant to a record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which subdivision and administrative center governed the locality at that time?", "kind": "definition", "id": "administrative-location-q01" }, { "text": "Did occupation, evacuation or administrative reorganization interrupt that body's effective jurisdiction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "administrative-location-q02" }, { "text": "Which historical jurisdiction should an agent use to locate the responsible institution or archive?", "kind": "action", "id": "administrative-location-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "republic-union-and-party-authority", "name": "Republic, Union and party authority", "description": "Determine how formal powers and effective direction were distributed.", "rationale": "Republic constitutional language cannot establish actual autonomy by itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "constitutional-competence", "name": "Constitutional competence", "description": "Identify the applicable constitutional arrangement and competent state organ.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-authority-for-an-act", "name": "Applicable authority for an act", "description": "Assess a proposed historical attribution against the constitutional text and amendments then in force.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which republic and Union constitutional provisions governed the function on the act's date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-authority-for-an-act-q01" }, { "text": "Was the function assigned to a republic organ, a Union organ or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "applicable-authority-for-an-act-q02" }, { "text": "Can the act be attributed to the named institution under that allocation of competence?", "kind": "action", "id": "applicable-authority-for-an-act-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "party-direction-and-implementation", "name": "Party direction and implementation", "description": "Trace political direction separately from the formal issuer of an act.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-decision-chain", "name": "Documented decision chain", "description": "Identify the roles of Union leadership, the Communist Party of Ukraine and republic state bodies in a particular decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records show who initiated, directed, approved and implemented the decision?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-decision-chain-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence demonstrates republic discretion or intervention by Union authorities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-decision-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "population-and-economic-governance", "name": "Population and economic governance", "description": "Assess how republic institutions classified people and administered economic activity.", "rationale": "Population categories and economic location must be interpreted within Soviet legal and administrative arrangements.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-and-status", "name": "Population and status", "description": "Distinguish residence, citizenship, recorded nationality and language categories.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-category-and-coverage", "name": "Population category and coverage", "description": "Record what a population claim counts without conflating Ukrainian identity with residence in the republic.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the record classify residence, citizenship, recorded nationality, language or another status?", "kind": "definition", "id": "population-category-and-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "What date, territorial coverage, exclusions and counting method support the reported population?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-category-and-coverage-q02" }, { "text": "Which republic or Union policy made that category consequential for the people recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-category-and-coverage-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "planning-and-sector-control", "name": "Planning and sector control", "description": "Separate territorial economic reporting from responsibility for planning and management.", "findings": [ { "id": "economic-responsibility-and-comparability", "name": "Economic responsibility and comparability", "description": "Establish who controlled the relevant activity and whether its reported results can be compared across periods.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the sector or institution supervised by republic authorities, Union authorities or a changing combination?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "economic-responsibility-and-comparability-q01" }, { "text": "Which units, prices, reporting boundaries and statistical definitions qualify the economic measure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "economic-responsibility-and-comparability-q02" }, { "text": "Can the agent compare these figures without adjustment for administrative or territorial changes?", "kind": "action", "id": "economic-responsibility-and-comparability-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "external-representation-and-transition", "name": "External representation and transition", "description": "Assess international capacity and continuity across the transition to Ukraine.", "rationale": "Separate international representation and the end of Soviet republican status require distinct tests.", "layers": [ { "id": "international-capacity", "name": "International capacity", "description": "Distinguish representation in an international forum from general sovereign independence.", "findings": [ { "id": "forum-specific-representation", "name": "Forum-specific representation", "description": "Record the republic's representative, capacity and conduct in a specified organization or instrument.", "questions": [ { "text": "In which forum or instrument did the Ukrainian SSR participate under its own designation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "forum-specific-representation-q01" }, { "text": "Which credentials, membership record or instrument establishes that participation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "forum-specific-representation-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes its formal participation from independent control of the position expressed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "forum-specific-representation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sovereignty-and-continuity", "name": "Sovereignty and continuity", "description": "Evaluate transition milestones and the continuation of particular institutions or obligations.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-specific-continuity", "name": "Transition-specific continuity", "description": "Separate sovereignty declaration, independence, popular confirmation, constitutional renaming and international continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which transition milestone is relevant to the particular status or act being assessed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "transition-specific-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which instrument establishes continuation, replacement or transfer of the institution or obligation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transition-specific-continuity-q02" }, { "text": "Should the agent link this record to the Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine or both with an explicit continuity relation?", "kind": "action", "id": "transition-specific-continuity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic before the Union treaty (1919-1922)", "Founding Union republic of the USSR (from 30 December 1922)", "Ukrainian SSR as a United Nations member (1945-1991)", "Interwar republic within the pre-1939 eastern borders", "Post-1939/1945 republic including former Polish, Romanian, and Czechoslovak territories", "Post-1954 republic including Crimea, transferred from the RSFSR", "Distinct constitutional orders (notably the 1919, 1929, 1937, and 1978 republican constitutions)", "Ukrainian SSR as the continuing legal person claimed by independent Ukraine (UN seat, borders, treaties, state property)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q133356", "note": "Item for the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; independent Ukraine is Q212." }, { "scheme": "United Nations membership name", "value_or_pattern": "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1945-1991)", "note": "Founding member; the same UN seat continued as Ukraine after 1991." }, { "scheme": "ISO 3166-1 (successor state)", "value_or_pattern": "UA / UKR / 804", "note": "Assigned to independent Ukraine; the Ukrainian SSR had no separate ISO 3166-1 code while the Union used SU / SUN / 810." }, { "scheme": "UN M49", "value_or_pattern": "804", "note": "Numeric area code now used for Ukraine; historically nested under the USSR (810)." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Treaty on the Creation of the USSR (30 December 1922), concluded by the Ukrainian SSR with the RSFSR, Byelorussian SSR, and Transcaucasian SFSR.", "Constitution of the USSR (1936; 1977), Supreme Soviet of the USSR - Union-level allocation of competences that limited republican sovereignty.", "Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR (1919, 1929, 1937, 1978), Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR - republican public law.", "Charter of the United Nations (1945), United Nations - Ukrainian SSR as a founding member.", "Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (16 July 1990, No. 55-XII), Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR.", "Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine (24 August 1991, No. 1427-XII), Verkhovna Rada.", "Law of Ukraine on Succession of Ukraine (12 September 1991) - Ukraine as successor to the rights and obligations of the Ukrainian SSR." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Named on Soviet internal and international passports, maps, statistical yearbooks, postage, and military commissariats as a Union republic with oblast and raion administration.", "Cast a separate vote in the UN General Assembly (with the Byelorussian SSR) while remaining inside the USSR - the practical reason it appears in 1945-91 treaty series as its own party.", "Ran a republican Gosplan/TsSU statistical and industrial apparatus (Donbas coal and steel, Dnipro cascade, grain surplus republic) under Union ministries.", "Encountered in archives (TsDAVO and former republican ministries) as the legal predecessor of independent Ukraine for borders, the UN seat, and state property.", "After 1991, cited in Ukrainian public law as a stage of national statehood and in Soviet/Russian usage as a Union administrative unit." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Land area (late Soviet, including Crimea)", "typical_range": "about 603500-603700", "unit": "km²" }, { "quantity": "Resident population (1989 All-Union Census)", "typical_range": "about 51.7 million", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Duration as a Union republic", "typical_range": "1922-1991 (69 years)", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "Duration of separate UN membership under the Ukrainian SSR name", "typical_range": "1945-1991", "unit": "years" }, { "quantity": "First-level subdivisions (late Soviet)", "typical_range": "25 oblasts plus the Crimean oblast (Crimean ASSR until 1945)", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "The 1932-33 famine (Holodomor) under forced collectivization and grain extraction, with mass death in the countryside.", "The Great Terror's destruction of republican political, cultural, and party elites, showing that formal sovereignty did not protect against Union NKVD power.", "Nazi occupation (1941-44), including Babyn Yar and the destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, and extreme military and civilian losses.", "The 1986 Chernobyl disaster at a Union-ministry nuclear plant on republican territory, with long-term radiological and political effects.", "Constitutional fiction: republican sovereignty and UN membership coexisted with CPSU/Moscow control of cadres, security, and the economy.", "Linguistic and cadre russification, especially in cities and heavy industry, producing a lasting east-west political split.", "Industrial-environmental degradation of the Donbas and the Dnipro cascade (subsidence, pollution, unsafe mining)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English names: Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, Soviet Ukraine; Ukrainian: Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка (УРСР); Russian: Украинская Советская Социалистическая Республика (УССР).", "Capital at Kharkiv until 1934, then Kyiv.", "Western oblasts annexed in 1939-45 (Galicia, Volhynia, northern Bukovina, Transcarpathia) kept different legal, religious, and land-tenure histories from the interwar east.", "Crimea was an RSFSR unit until the 1954 transfer; Transcarpathia came from Czechoslovakia in 1945.", "Post-1991 Ukrainian official usage treats the Ukrainian SSR as a form of Ukrainian statehood; much Soviet-nostalgic and some Russian usage treats it as a Union province without separate state personality." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Independent Ukraine (from 24 August 1991; confirmed by the 1 December 1991 referendum)", "difference": "Same UN seat and claimed legal continuity, but no longer a Union republic; test is the independence act plus exit from USSR institutions, not a new UN admission." }, { "name": "Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR, 1917-1921)", "difference": "Rival non-Bolshevik national state; different government, constitution, and recognition pattern. The Ukrainian SSR was the Bolshevik competitor, not a rename of the UNR." }, { "name": "Ukrainian State (Hetmanate, 1918)", "difference": "German-backed conservative regime under Pavlo Skoropadskyi, not a soviet republic and not a Union republic." }, { "name": "Russian SFSR", "difference": "A separate founding Union republic with its own constitution and capital; the Ukrainian SSR was never an oblast of the RSFSR." }, { "name": "Byelorussian SSR", "difference": "The only other Union republic given separate UN membership in 1945; different territory, titular nation, and republican institutions." }, { "name": "West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918-1919)", "difference": "Galician national state; its lands entered the Ukrainian SSR only with the 1939-45 annexations, not in 1919-22." }, { "name": "Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (1920)", "difference": "A short-lived Bolshevik entity in Galicia during the Polish-Soviet War, not the Ukrainian SSR and not a lasting Union republic." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Why is this historical polity registered under INF / INF.MED: does the registry intend the polity itself, a representation of it or a classification needing correction?", "Which inception convention and early Soviet Ukrainian formations should this registry identity encompass?", "Which dates and instruments separately establish legal assignment and effective administration for disputed or transitional territorial intervals?", "Which primary records establish actual republic discretion in the policy areas selected for the completed model?", "How should the registry represent continuity into Ukraine across constitutional identity, institutions, obligations and UN membership, and does an existing world model already own that concept?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 35 } }, "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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in a dated record, assess its territorial and institutional state, and determine which authorities and continuity claims apply.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 95 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 95 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from another, and a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 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may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 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 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 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": [ 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refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }