{ "model": { "rank": 3865, "code": "thing-q134211", "model_id": "vr.tr.polo", "name": "polo", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise polo as a mounted team sport, assess its playing conditions and match state, and identify actions permitted by the applicable rules and horse-welfare constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q134211/", "tier": 2, "score": 81, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "elephant polo", "beach polo", "cowboy polo", "Yak polo", "polo in Nigeria" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 81, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q134211", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134211", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T18:56:18Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 28.1, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08786-4aac-7b52-9e57-a8405947d0ef\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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this interpretation remains provisional because vr.tr.polo has no recorded definition.", "in_scope": [ "Mounted polo and distinctions between its field and arena formats", "Teams, player roles, eligibility and handicap arrangements", "Horse-rider combinations, mount changes and readiness for play", "Ball movement, scoring, periods of play and match progression", "Right-of-way decisions, contact, penalties and stoppages", "Playing-ground suitability, equipment and horse-welfare constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Water polo, bicycle polo and other separately constituted sports sharing the name", "Polo shirts and other clothing senses of polo", "General equine biology, breeding and veterinary treatment", "General riding instruction outside polo-specific demands", "Club administration, sponsorship and sporting-business operations", "Construction and maintenance of equestrian facilities beyond their suitability for polo" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Players participate on horses; swimming or bicycle-based play indicates a neighbouring sport.", "Players use mallets to propel a ball toward opposing goals; carrying or throwing the ball would require checking a different sport or variant.", "Assessment of play must account for both the rider and the mount, including their combined movement and readiness.", "Interpretation of contested movement involves polo-specific ball-line and right-of-way concepts whose application depends on the governing rules.", "Field and arena differences are recorded as formats within the polo scope rather than silently treated as identical playing conditions." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Polo format", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Field; arena; another documented mounted format; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which playing conditions and rules the agent must establish." }, { "name": "Governing rules", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named authority, rulebook edition and competition modifications", "why_it_matters": "Eligibility, permitted actions and match procedures require an identifiable authority." }, { "name": "Team composition", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Players assigned to each team, their roles and substitution status", "why_it_matters": "Establishes who may participate and how team responsibilities are organised." }, { "name": "Handicap assessment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Player and team ratings on the specified authority's handicap scale", "why_it_matters": "Supports competition eligibility and any applicable scoring adjustments without assuming a universal scale." }, { "name": "Active horse-rider combination", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Player, current mount and relevant participation history", "why_it_matters": "Connects incidents, readiness and workload to the actual participants." }, { "name": "Match phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Pre-match; 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registry provenance must confirm that interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the originating record for vr.tr.polo identify the mounted sport rather than another sense of polo?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-polo-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Which mounted variants belong within this entry, and which have separately registered identities?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-polo-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "format-and-authority", "name": "Format and authority", "description": "Connects field or arena play to a documented governing ruleset.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-playing-conventions", "name": "Applicable playing conventions", "description": "Team size, ground dimensions, ball specifications and timing must be established for the chosen format rather than inherited from an unspecified version of polo.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority, edition and competition amendments govern this instance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-playing-conventions-q01" }, { "text": "What team size, ground configuration, ball specification and period structure does that ruleset require?", "kind": "definition", "id": "applicable-playing-conventions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "teams-riders-and-mounts", "name": "Teams, riders and mounts", "description": "Describes the human and equine participants whose eligibility and coordination make polo playable.", "rationale": "A polo team cannot be assessed through its human roster alone; handicap conditions and mount assignments also matter.", "layers": [ { "id": "team-eligibility-and-handicap", "name": "Team eligibility and handicap", "description": "Establishes the roster and its relationship to competition entry conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "rated-team-composition", "name": "Rated team composition", "description": "Player ratings and team assessment need a named rating system and date before they can support eligibility or scoring decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ratings are recognised for each player in this format and competition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rated-team-composition-q01" }, { "text": "How do the competition rules use those ratings to determine eligibility or starting-score adjustments?", "kind": "action", "id": "rated-team-composition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "horse-rider-assignment", "name": "Horse-rider assignment", "description": "Tracks the mount used by each player and the conditions for changing mounts.", "findings": [ { "id": "mount-use-and-change", "name": "Mount use and change", "description": "Mount identity and participation history provide the context needed to interpret changes, workload and readiness.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which horse is assigned to each player during each recorded period of participation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mount-use-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "When may a player change mounts, and what inspection or authorisation is required before the replacement enters?", "kind": "action", "id": "mount-use-and-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "play-scoring-and-officiating", "name": "Play, scoring and officiating", "description": "Makes match progression and disputed play interpretable under the selected polo rules.", "rationale": "Goals alone do not explain match state; 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every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The activity domain supports interpreting the unspecified sense as equestrian polo.", "Rule details, field dimensions and handicap ranges should be checked against the relevant association and format.", "This is recalled knowledge; no sources were consulted." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of polo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Outdoor grass polo", "Arena polo", "Snow polo", "Beach polo" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of polo this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a polo 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 polo, 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 polo, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"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 polo 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 polo from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a polo, 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 polo, 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 polo 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 polo 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 polo between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a polo, 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 polo, 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 polo 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 polo, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a polo 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 polo, 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 polo, 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 polo is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a polo proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a polo, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a polo and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a polo, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a polo, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a polo is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a polo consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a polo takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a polo, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a polo, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a polo 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 polo 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 polo 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 polo 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 polo 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 polo?", "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 polo?", "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 polo 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 polo and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a polo, 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 polo, 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 polo 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 polo is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a polo, 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 polo, 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 polo 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 } } } }