{ "model": { "rank": 2706, "code": "thing-q13959", "model_id": "vr.tr.thanksgiving", "name": "Thanksgiving", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Thanksgiving observance, assess its readiness or completion, and determine appropriate actions from its tradition, participants, permissions and circumstances.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q13959/", "tier": 2, "score": 99, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 99, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q13959", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13959", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:11:53Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00361896, "turns": 1, "seconds": 50, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 71, "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: 01a07b90-34e2-7b53-bb58-7a7213e53967\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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contemporary practice centres on a shared meal, ritual gratitude, and nationally specific commemorative narratives rather than a single shared liturgy.", "scope_statement": "This model owns Thanksgiving as a named holiday observance and its situated instances, including how participants identify it, determine its occasion, express gratitude, gather and address contested meanings; the registry's intended national, religious or broader coverage remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the Thanksgiving tradition and the particular observance being modelled", "The applicable date rule, actual observance date and local calendar context", "Participant-defined meanings, gratitude practices and expectations", "Coordination of Thanksgiving gatherings, meals and remote participation", "Readiness, completion, cancellation and participant-reported outcomes", "Historical interpretations, objections and alternative forms of participation relevant to the observance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "General gratitude as an emotion, virtue or everyday practice", "Other harvest festivals without an established identification as Thanksgiving", "Recipe specifications, ingredient inventories and food-safety procedures", "Travel bookings, transport operations and accommodation management", "Employment entitlements and public-holiday law as independently maintained rules", "Comprehensive historical accounts or models of Indigenous peoples and communities" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Participants or an identified organising authority explicitly identify the occasion as Thanksgiving; a meal featuring familiar foods is insufficient.", "The observance is linked to an identified Thanksgiving tradition or an explicitly described adaptation, rather than inferred from its season or location.", "A particular gathering can count as an instance even when held on a different date from its referenced holiday, provided that relationship is explicit.", "Giving thanks during an ordinary meal does not by itself establish a Thanksgiving observance.", "Shared food, religious practice and family participation are recorded as local choices or expectations, rather than required recognition criteria." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Thanksgiving reference tradition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Named tradition or community-defined adaptation; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines which calendar, meanings and expectations are relevant without assuming one universal Thanksgiving." }, { "name": "Observance identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Relationship between a particular observance and its named holiday or recurring series", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the holiday concept from a specific gathering or annual instance." }, { "name": "Calendar basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Applicable date rule and its authority, linked to the actual local observance date and time zone", "why_it_matters": "Supports scheduling while preserving differences between the reference date and a rescheduled gathering." }, { "name": "Observance form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Participant-described combination of meal, gratitude practice, worship, service, reflection, remote gathering or other form", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an agent from treating a particular menu or ritual as mandatory." }, { "name": "Declared meaning", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attributed descriptions such as gratitude, reunion, religious thanks, civic celebration, mourning, critique or mixed meanings", "why_it_matters": "Guides invitations, language and activities without assigning beliefs to participants." }, { "name": "Participation arrangement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "People or groups linked to host, invitee, contributor, remote participant or declined-participation roles", "why_it_matters": "Clarifies responsibilities and distinguishes invitation from consent to participate." }, { "name": "Expected attendance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of confirmed participants and separately recorded uncertain participants", "why_it_matters": "Supports seating, meal coordination and access planning without treating unanswered invitations as acceptance." }, { "name": "Preparation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed; arranging; ready; underway; completed; cancelled; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Shows which coordination actions remain useful and whether the observance actually occurred." }, { "name": "Participation requirements", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Consented links to dietary, accessibility, ritual, privacy and interpersonal requirements", "why_it_matters": "Allows the gathering to accommodate participants without inferring sensitive needs." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the intended Thanksgiving tradition and distinguish the recurring holiday from a particular observance.", "Resolve a proposed observance date against a sourced calendar rule and flag ambiguity.", "Prepare invitations and coordinate contributions using participant-approved meanings and expectations.", "Assess readiness for the chosen meal, gratitude practice or other observance form.", "Offer participation alternatives when access needs, beliefs or objections make a proposed activity unsuitable.", "Record what occurred, what changed and what participants want carried forward to a future Thanksgiving." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "src-nara-thanksgiving", "title": "Congress Establishes Thanksgiving", "url": "https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/thanksgiving", "what_it_supports": "U.S. statutory holiday: 26 Stat. 814 (1870) making Thanksgiving a federal holiday; Joint Resolution of 26 December 1941 (55 Stat. 862) fixing the fourth Thursday of November.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "thanksgiving-identity", "name": "Thanksgiving identity", "description": "Establishes which Thanksgiving is meant and why an occasion belongs to it.", "rationale": "The name alone does not establish a jurisdiction, tradition, religious character or required practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference-tradition", "name": "Reference tradition", "description": "Identifies the tradition or adaptation claimed by the organiser or participants.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-identification", "name": "Attributed identification", "description": "Record who identifies the occasion as Thanksgiving and the tradition they reference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Thanksgiving tradition or explicitly named adaptation does this occasion reference?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied this identification, and what evidence supports it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occasion-boundary", "name": "Occasion boundary", "description": "Separates the holiday, an annual instance and component activities.", "findings": [ { "id": "observance-membership", "name": "Observance membership", "description": "Record whether a meal, service or gathering is the observance itself or one activity within it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record describe Thanksgiving generally, one year's observance or a component activity?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "observance-membership-q01" }, { "text": "What explicit connection makes this activity part of Thanksgiving rather than an ordinary meal or gratitude practice?", "kind": "definition", "id": "observance-membership-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "thanksgiving-calendar", "name": "Thanksgiving calendar", "description": "Connects the reference holiday date to the occasion participants will actually observe.", "rationale": "An agent must avoid choosing a date from the word Thanksgiving alone or mistaking rescheduling for a different occasion.", "layers": [ { "id": "holiday-date-basis", "name": "Holiday date basis", "description": "Records the applicable calendar rule and where it comes from.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-date-rule", "name": "Applicable date rule", "description": "Identify a sourced date rule for the selected tradition and year, without assuming universal applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which calendar rule applies to this Thanksgiving tradition in the relevant year and locality?", "kind": "definition", "id": "applicable-date-rule-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority or community source establishes that rule?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-date-rule-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "actual-observance-window", "name": "Actual observance window", "description": "Records the chosen gathering date and its relationship to the reference date.", "findings": [ { "id": "scheduled-thanksgiving-instance", "name": "Scheduled Thanksgiving instance", "description": "Preserve the actual local schedule, including any intentional shift from the holiday date.", "questions": [ { "text": "On what local date and at what time will this Thanksgiving observance occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scheduled-thanksgiving-instance-q01" }, { "text": "If the gathering differs from the reference date, who can confirm or change that arrangement?", "kind": "action", "id": "scheduled-thanksgiving-instance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gratitude-and-meaning", "name": "Gratitude and meaning", "description": "Captures what the occasion means to its participants and how that meaning is expressed.", "rationale": "Appropriate Thanksgiving actions depend on expressed meanings, which may differ within the same gathering.", "layers": [ { "id": "participant-interpretations", "name": "Participant interpretations", "description": "Keeps meanings attributed to their speakers rather than declaring a single shared interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "declared-thanksgiving-purpose", "name": "Declared Thanksgiving purpose", "description": "Record organisers' stated intentions and any voluntarily supplied differences among participants.", "questions": [ { "text": "What do organisers and participants say this Thanksgiving is intended to recognise or make possible?", "kind": "definition", "id": "declared-thanksgiving-purpose-q01" }, { "text": "Which meanings are explicitly shared, and which belong only to particular participants?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "declared-thanksgiving-purpose-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "gratitude-practices", "name": "Gratitude practices", "description": "Specifies chosen expressions of thanks and their participation expectations.", "findings": [ { "id": "chosen-expression-of-thanks", "name": "Chosen expression of thanks", "description": "Record any planned prayer, spoken thanks, private reflection or other expression, including the option to abstain.", "questions": [ { "text": "What expression of thanks, if any, has been selected for this observance?", "kind": "definition", "id": "chosen-expression-of-thanks-q01" }, { "text": "How can someone decline speaking, prayer or another gratitude activity while remaining welcome?", "kind": "action", "id": "chosen-expression-of-thanks-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "gathering-and-hospitality", "name": "Gathering and hospitality", "description": "Models the practical commitments required by the chosen Thanksgiving gathering.", "rationale": "Thanksgiving coordination must follow the actual guest arrangements and practices rather than presumed family roles or a standard meal.", "layers": [ { "id": "guest-and-host-arrangements", "name": "Guest and host arrangements", "description": "Records invitations, acceptance, hosting responsibilities and participation needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreed-participation", "name": "Agreed participation", "description": "Distinguish invited, confirmed, uncertain and declined participants and the arrangements they have accepted.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who has accepted this Thanksgiving invitation, and who has agreed to host or contribute?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "agreed-participation-q01" }, { "text": "What access, remote participation or interpersonal arrangements must be settled for those attending?", "kind": "action", "id": "agreed-participation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "meal-and-activity-readiness", "name": "Meal and activity readiness", "description": "Tracks whether the chosen Thanksgiving meal and other activities can proceed.", "findings": [ { "id": "hospitality-commitments", "name": "Hospitality commitments", "description": "Record responsibilities and unresolved dependencies for the practices this gathering actually includes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which meal, seating, contribution and activity commitments remain unresolved for this Thanksgiving?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "hospitality-commitments-q01" }, { "text": "Who may adjust the menu, timing or activities to accommodate confirmed participant requirements?", "kind": "action", "id": "hospitality-commitments-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contested-meaning-and-continuity", "name": "Contested meaning and 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communities expressed, and whose positions do they represent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accountable-thanksgiving-framing-q02" }, { "text": "What changes or alternative participation options are authorised in response to those concerns?", "kind": "action", "id": "accountable-thanksgiving-framing-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observance-outcome", "name": "Observance outcome", "description": "Records whether the occasion occurred and what may inform its next instance.", "findings": [ { "id": "completion-and-future-preferences", "name": "Completion and future preferences", "description": "Separate occurrence and practical completion from participants' own assessments of the experience.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did this Thanksgiving observance occur, change form or get cancelled, and which planned activities took place?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "completion-and-future-preferences-q01" }, { "text": "Which participant-approved preferences or lessons may be retained for the next 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territorial employment/holiday statutes (e.g. Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000, s. 1 and Part X; federal Canada Labour Code for federally regulated employees) naming Thanksgiving as the second Monday in October.", "Canada: Governor General's proclamation practice historically; current date is fixed in provincial employment standards and federal holiday lists rather than an annual ad hoc proclamation." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Thanksgiving 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": [ "A paid public holiday that closes schools, banks, many government offices, and a large share of private workplaces in the U.S. and (on a different date) in much of 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some private-sector contracts).", "Liberia: national Thanksgiving on the first Thursday of November, reflecting 19th-century Americo-Liberian influence.", "Norfolk Island (Australia): Thanksgiving on the last Wednesday of November, introduced via American whaling contact.", "Grenada and some other Caribbean/Commonwealth contexts have historically held thanksgiving days that are not the North American holiday.", "United Kingdom and much of Europe: no civic Thanksgiving holiday; 'harvest festival' in churches is the nearest analogue and is not a public holiday.", "Within the U.S., New England commemorative origin stories (Plymouth 1621) compete with Virginia (Berkeley Hundred 1619) claims and with Indigenous Day of Mourning practice in Massachusetts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Thanksgiving this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", 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"Friendsgiving", "difference": "An informal, typically non-family gathering around Thanksgiving time; social practice, not a legal holiday." }, { "name": "Canadian Remembrance Day (11 November)", "difference": "A war-dead commemoration, sometimes confused by visitors because it falls between Canadian and U.S. Thanksgivings; identified by date and poppy/cenotaph ritual, not a harvest meal." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Thanksgiving this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Thanksgiving to cover all named holiday traditions, one particular tradition, or the broader act of giving thanks?", "Which existing Vercy models already own the holiday, gathering or religious-observance concepts that this entry should reference?", "Which authoritative and community sources establish the calendar rules and recognition boundaries for each tradition included?", "Should explicitly named adaptations such as Friendsgiving be instances of this entry or references to a neighbouring model, given the registry's authoritative granularity?", "Which sources and consultation practices are appropriate for representing Indigenous perspectives and other contested meanings without treating any community as having a single position?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 29 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Thanksgiving, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a Thanksgiving observance, assess its readiness or completion, and determine appropriate actions from its tradition, participants, permissions and circumstances.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 99 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 Thanksgiving, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 99 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 Thanksgiving from another, and a Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event 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}, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving, 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving 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 Thanksgiving?", "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 Thanksgiving?", "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 Thanksgiving 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 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