{ "model": { "rank": 9302, "code": "thing-q152357", "model_id": "vr.tr.red-hair", "name": "red hair", "purpose": "Let an agent explain red hair, relay genetics, distribution and cultural history from genetic and anthropological sources with attribution, describe the natural shades the registry aliases name, and distinguish natural red hair from blond, brown and dyed colours such as purple and violet, avoiding stereotypes and prejudice.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q152357/", "tier": 2, "score": 48, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "light red hair", "dark red hair", "violet hair", "auburn hair", "purple hair", "titian hair", "chestnut hair", "wine hair", "lilac hair", "dark purple hair", "light purple hair" ], "aliasCount": 11, "merged": 11, "knownIn": 48, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q152357", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152357", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T18:46:32Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 4, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q152357", "registryId": "vr.tr.red-hair", "name": "red hair", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "XCT.QLT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q152357/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.red-hair", "name": "red hair", "purpose": "Let an agent explain red hair, relay genetics, distribution and cultural history from genetic and anthropological sources with attribution, describe the natural shades the registry aliases name, and distinguish natural red hair from blond, brown and dyed colours such as purple and violet, avoiding stereotypes and prejudice.", "definition": "A human hair colour ranging from strawberry blond and light red through copper and auburn to dark red and titian, caused by high levels of the pigment pheomelanin associated mainly with variants of the MC1R gene, most common in northern and western Europe, especially Scotland and Ireland; the registry aliases also include violet and purple hair, which are artificial dyed colours rather than natural red shades.", "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a physical trait.", "affordances": [ "explain the trait", "relay genetics and distribution", "describe shades", "distinguish related colours" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Pheomelanin rich", "MC1R variants", "Rare globally", "Associated traits such as fair skin" ], "appearance": "Hair in copper, auburn, ginger or deep red tones.", "visual_identification": [ "Hair colour from high pheomelanin", "Light red, dark red, auburn, titian; violet and purple as dyed colours", "Blond hair has low eumelanin; brown has more eumelanin; purple and violet are dyes" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "world population with red hair", "typical_range": "about 1-2", "unit": "percent", "note": "estimates" }, { "quantity": "Scotland", "typical_range": "about 6", "unit": "percent", "note": "estimates" }, { "quantity": "main gene", "typical_range": "MC1R", "unit": "note", "note": "recessive variants" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "strawberry blond", "light red and ginger", "copper", "auburn", "titian", "dark red" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "hair color", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is caused by", "target": "MC1R", "why": "gene variants" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "blond hair", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is distinct from", "target": "purple hair", "why": "a dyed colour" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies may address appearance-based harassment", "Cosmetics rules for hair dyes" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Stereotyping and harassment", "Registry aliases including dyed colours", "Health myths" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What red hair is.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is red hair, and how does it differ from blond, brown and dyed purple or violet hair?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about genetics, shades, culture or hair colouring?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shades", "name": "Shades", "description": "Shades.", "findings": [ { "id": "shades-finding", "name": "Shades", "description": "Shades.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are light red, dark red, auburn and titian?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific shade?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "science", "name": "Science", "description": "Genetics.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "genetics", "name": "Genetics", "description": "MC1R.", "findings": [ { "id": "genetics-finding", "name": "Genetics", "description": "Genetics.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do MC1R variants produce red hair, and how is it inherited?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "traits", "name": "Traits", "description": "Associated traits.", "findings": [ { "id": "traits-finding", "name": "Traits", "description": "Traits.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does research say about associated traits such as UV sensitivity and anaesthesia needs, with findings attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "findings": [ { "id": "history-finding", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "questions": [ { "text": "How has red hair been perceived across history and cultures?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation free of stereotypes?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "description": "Events.", "findings": [ { "id": "events-finding", "name": "Events", "description": "Events.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are events such as Redhead Days?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Redhead Days?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Dyes and language.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "dyes", "name": "Dyes", "description": "Dyed colours.", "findings": [ { "id": "dyes-finding", "name": "Dyes", "description": "Dyes.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are red, purple and violet shades created with dyes?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits hair coloring?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "language", "name": "Language", "description": "Language.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-finding", "name": "Language", "description": "Language.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do terms such as ginger, auburn and titian come from?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits colour terminology?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should auburn and titian be separate entries?", "How should genetic sources be linked?", "The registry aliases violet and purple hair are dyed colours and should be detached" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "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 red hair, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain red hair, relay genetics, distribution and cultural history from genetic and anthropological sources with attribution, describe the natural shades the registry aliases name, and distinguish natural red hair from blond, brown and dyed colours such as purple and violet, avoiding stereotypes and prejudice.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: light red hair, dark red hair, violet hair, auburn hair, purple hair, titian hair, chestnut hair, wine hair, lilac hair, dark purple hair, light purple hair.", "11 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 48 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 red hair, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "light red hair", "dark red hair", "violet hair", "auburn hair", "purple hair", "titian hair", "chestnut hair", "wine hair", "lilac hair", "dark purple hair", "light purple hair" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 48 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 red hair from another, and a red hair 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 red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a red hair 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 red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair 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 red hair?", "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 red hair?", "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 red hair 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 red hair and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair 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 red hair is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a red hair, 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 red hair, 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 red hair is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }