{ "model": { "rank": 4747, "code": "thing-q16335075", "model_id": "vr.tr.war-in-donbas", "name": "War in Donbas", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify the War in Donbas, assess evidence about its phases and consequences, and decide how to describe or relate it without conflating disputed claims or neighbouring conflicts.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.KNW", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q16335075/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q16335075", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16335075", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T20:55:02Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.4, "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: 01a087f2-f4b6-7bf3-9eb8-0b0f05a8555e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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direct Russian military involvement, and became part of the wider fighting following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the historical armed conflict centred on Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions from 2014, conventionally distinguished from the full-scale invasion beginning in February 2022; it records alternative periodisations explicitly and preserves the registry's INF / INF.KNW placement without treating the conflict as a discipline.", "in_scope": [ "Competing definitions, names and temporal boundaries of the War in Donbas", "Conflict phases, geographically bounded incidents and changes in territorial control", "Ukrainian forces, Russian involvement, separatist formations and their changing relationships", "Ceasefires, the Minsk process and monitoring arrangements", "Civilian harm, displacement and disruption of essential services", "Evidence provenance, attribution disputes and limits of observation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The entire Russo-Ukrainian War as a parent conflict", "The annexation of Crimea as a separately modelled episode linked through context", "Post-February 2022 campaigns except where needed to explain continuity or the selected endpoint", "Comprehensive histories of Ukraine, Russia or the Donbas region", "Complete organisational models of participating states and armed formations", "Operational targeting, weapons employment and tactical planning" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a specific historical armed conflict, rather than warfare generally, a knowledge discipline or the Donbas geographic region.", "Its geographic centre is Donetsk and Luhansk; events elsewhere require an explicit causal or organisational connection to enter this model.", "A record using a 2014-February 2022 periodisation distinguishes this episode from subsequent fighting while acknowledging continuity within the broader war.", "Descriptions must distinguish territorial control, 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"why_it_matters": "Supports historical reconstruction without implying that control establishes sovereignty." }, { "name": "Actor involvement", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor, period, role, command relationship, support relationship and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates direct participation from sponsorship, supply, political representation and asserted affiliation." }, { "name": "Reported civilian casualties", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "People killed or injured, separately counted by reporting interval, geography, source and verification method", "why_it_matters": "Makes casualty estimates interpretable and prevents incompatible totals from being combined." }, { "name": "Reported displacement", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "People, with stock or flow designation, reference date, location and registration or estimation method", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes displacement events, registered populations and estimates of people 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"text": "What episode does each source mean by 'War in Donbas', and which alternative names refer to that same episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "conflict-name-usage-q01" }, { "text": "Which names are source quotations, official terminology or editorial labels, and whose usage do they represent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conflict-name-usage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-boundaries", "name": "Episode boundaries", "description": "Makes the start, endpoint and relationship to adjacent episodes explicit.", "findings": [ { "id": "temporal-and-geographic-cutoffs", "name": "Temporal and geographic cutoffs", "description": "Treat periodisation as a documented analytical choice rather than implying that an endpoint means hostilities ceased.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events establish this model's start and its transition into the full-scale invasion, under the adopted historical convention?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "temporal-and-geographic-cutoffs-q01" }, { "text": "Under what explicit relationship may an event outside Donetsk or Luhansk be included rather than linked as context?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "temporal-and-geographic-cutoffs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "actors-control-and-conflict-phases", "name": "Actors, control and conflict phases", "description": "Represents changing participation, territorial control and the sequence of conflict phases.", "rationale": "The conflict cannot be recognised or assessed through a static list of opposing sides or a single undated map.", "layers": [ { "id": "participation-and-command", "name": "Participation and command", "description": "Separates declared identity, observed activity and evidenced relationships among participants.", "findings": [ { "id": "armed-actor-relationships", "name": "Armed actor relationships", "description": "Record Ukrainian formations, separatist formations and Russian involvement through dated, attributed evidence about specific roles and relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which formations participated during each phase, and what evidence supports their identities and roles?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "armed-actor-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes direct participation, operational command, equipment supply and political support for a given actor and period?", "kind": "definition", "id": "armed-actor-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "control-and-phase-transitions", "name": "Control and phase transitions", "description": "Relates local control changes and major episodes to a dated regional chronology.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-conflict-geography", "name": "Dated conflict geography", "description": "Represent control and contact lines at specified times, distinguishing uncertainty and contested areas from established observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What dated evidence supports a reported change of control at a settlement or along a section of the contact line?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-conflict-geography-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes justify a phase boundary, including episodes around Ilovaisk, Donetsk airport and Debaltseve, and whose chronology supports that choice?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-conflict-geography-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "agreements-monitoring-and-attribution", "name": "Agreements, monitoring and attribution", "description": "Connects negotiated commitments and monitoring records to carefully bounded assessments.", "rationale": "Agreement texts, field observations and responsibility claims answer different questions and must remain distinguishable.", "layers": [ { "id": "minsk-and-ceasefire-commitments", "name": "Minsk and ceasefire commitments", "description": "Tracks the content, timing and reported implementation of specific negotiated measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "commitment-level-assessment", "name": "Commitment-level assessment", "description": "Assess individual provisions against their wording, applicable actors and 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a War in Donbas 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 War in Donbas, 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 War in Donbas, 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 War in Donbas 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 War in Donbas 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 War in Donbas, 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 War in 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