municipality of San Marino
Generated draft, first pass
This model was drafted by rule from what the registry knows about the thing. It proposes which bundles a real model will need and which questions research must answer. It is not researched and no sentence in it is sourced.
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.
Generator: vr.draft.v3
Purpose and description
Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a municipality of San Marino, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.
A physical thing registered under PHY.PLC. The registry names it; this draft has not been given a definition yet.
It can be observed and measured; entered, crossed or travelled along.
Distinguishing features
Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is.
Physical character
Made of: a portion of the world with an extent.
On the scale of a landscape, measured in kilometres.
Stays where it was put; moving it is a project.
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.
How it is recognised
Recognised by extent on the ground and by position, not by appearance. Two places that look alike are told apart by where they are.
Described in 52 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 8 bundles · 17 layers · 19 findings · 53 questions.
Identity, naming and classification How an agent tells one municipality of San Marino from another, and a municipality of San Marino from things that resemble it.
Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.
Names and identifiers
The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.
Preferred name, aliases and local names
Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.
- What identifies and describes the name of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the name of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the name of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Stable identifiers and external keys
Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.
- What identifies and describes an identifier for a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Classification and granularity
Where a municipality of San Marino sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.
Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds
The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.
- What identifies and describes the kind of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the kind of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Distinguishing features
What separates a municipality of San Marino from the things most often confused with it.
- What identifies and describes what distinguishes a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Form, composition and condition What a municipality of San Marino is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.
A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.
Form and dimensions
Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples at geographic scale.
Measurable dimensions and their units
The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.
- What identifies and describes the dimensions of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Material and composition
Materials, parts and how they are put together.
Parts and materials
What a municipality of San Marino is built from and which parts are replaceable.
- What identifies and describes the composition of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the composition of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Condition and integrity
Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.
Condition, damage and health
How the condition of a municipality of San Marino is judged and by whom.
- What identifies and describes the condition of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the condition of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Place and movement Where a municipality of San Marino is, how it got there and where it may go (fixed).
A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.
Location and placement
Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.
Position, container and reference frame
Where a municipality of San Marino is, and what that position is measured against.
- What identifies and describes the location of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the location of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the location of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Movement and transfer
How a municipality of San Marino is carried, installed or relocated.
Movement events and constraints
What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.
- What identifies and describes the movement of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the movement of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
State and lifecycle The states a municipality of San Marino passes through and the events that move it between them.
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.
Lifecycle stages
From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.
Stages and transitions
The stages worth naming and what moves a municipality of San Marino between them.
- What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Observations and current status
What is observed about a municipality of San Marino, how often and by whom.
Observation record
How an observation of a municipality of San Marino is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.
- What identifies and describes an observation of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about an observation of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Use and operation What can be done with a municipality of San Marino and what it takes to do it.
An agent that can recognise a thing but not act on it has only half a model.
Intended use and function
What a municipality of San Marino is for, and what it is used for anyway.
Function, purpose and misuse
The function a municipality of San Marino performs and the uses that fall outside it.
- What identifies and describes the use of a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the use of a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the use of a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Handling and procedure
The steps, skills and tools involved in using a municipality of San Marino.
Procedures, skills and required tools
What an agent needs before it can act on a municipality of San Marino at all.
- What identifies and describes handling a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about handling a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once handling a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Extent, geometry and naming Where municipality of San Marino is, how far it reaches, and what it is called.
A boundary is claimed by an authority rather than observed in the world, so the claimant belongs in the record with the geometry.
Geometry and reference system
Coordinates, extent and the frame they are given in.
Geometry, precision and frame
What is recorded about position and shape, and to what accuracy.
- What geometry describes municipality of San Marino, in which coordinate reference system, at what precision? measurement
- Which authority publishes that geometry, and who publishes a different one? provenance
Names and endonyms
What it is called in different languages and by different parties.
Names and who uses them
Official names, local names and contested names.
- By what names is municipality of San Marino known, in which languages, and which are official to whom? definition
- Where naming is contested, what should an agent record instead of choosing? action
Containment, jurisdiction and access What municipality of San Marino sits inside, who governs it, and who may enter.
Administrative containment decides which rules apply, and it changes without the place moving.
Administrative containment
The units it belongs to and the date each holds from.
Containing units and effective dates
Where it sits administratively and since when.
- Which administrative units contain municipality of San Marino, and since when does each containment hold? definition
- Which containment is disputed, and by which parties? boundary
Access and permitted use
Who may enter or use it and under what conditions.
Access rules and their source
Entry, use and restriction, with the rule behind each.
- Who may enter or use municipality of San Marino, under what conditions, and by whose rule? action
- What seasonal or conditional closure applies, and how is it announced? definition
Provenance, evidence and time Where every claim about a municipality of San Marino came from and when it held.
A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.
Source and authority
Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.
Claim provenance and confidence
The authority behind each claim about a municipality of San Marino and how confident it is.
- What identifies and describes a claim about a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about a claim about a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
Time, versions and supersession
When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.
Validity period and supersession
How an old claim about a municipality of San Marino is retired without being erased.
- What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a municipality of San Marino, and in what units or vocabulary? definition
- Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a municipality of San Marino, by which method, and when was it true? provenance
- What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a municipality of San Marino is known, and what must it refuse? action
What the second pass must settle
- 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 municipality of San Marino, and on what evidence are they told apart?