{ "model": { "rank": 4328, "code": "thing-q165853", "model_id": "vr.tr.harem", "name": "harem", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise and assess a harem as a historically situated household institution by recording its membership, gendered boundaries, authority relations and conditions of participation.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.ORG", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q165853/", "tier": 2, "score": 76, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 76, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q165853", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165853", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T19:58:40Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.6, "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: 01a087bf-4e03-7a31-8a53-074827136902\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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access, and by extension the quarters reserved for them.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the social institution denoted by harem: a household grouping organised around women and differentiated domestic access, including its associated dependants, personnel and governance where documented; the exact meaning must be established for each historical setting.", "in_scope": [ "Local meaning of harem and evidence that the designation applies", "Membership, household affiliations and differentiated social positions", "Rules governing residence, access, movement and outside contact", "Authority, dependency, consent and coercion within the institution", "Resources, household functions and institutional transformation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Architectural description of residential quarters except where it explains institutional boundaries", "Polygyny as a marriage system independent of a particular household institution", "Individual biographies and genealogies beyond relevant household 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basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Local term; contemporary external designation; retrospective scholarly designation; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an externally imposed label from silently determining the institution's meaning." }, { "name": "Historical and cultural setting", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Associated place, period, household and documented social context", "why_it_matters": "Makes membership categories and restrictions interpretable without treating all harems as equivalent." }, { "name": "Household affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to the household, its principal figures and any associated court or dynasty", "why_it_matters": "Locates the institution within the household that sustains it without equating it with the entire court." }, { "name": "Membership composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attested roles and statuses, each marked as resident, nonresident, temporary or uncertain", 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documented consent, constraints, dependency, ability to leave and unresolved evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents residence or affiliation from being mistaken for voluntary participation." }, { "name": "Institutional continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Forming; operating; reorganising; dispersing; ended; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes relocation and household succession from institutional dissolution." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a documented household grouping fits this institutional sense of harem.", "Map residents and attached personnel without inferring marriage, sexual access or consent from membership.", "Compare prescribed access restrictions with evidence of actual movement and contact.", "Identify who could authorise a particular household action and whose participation was constrained.", "Trace changes in membership, resources and continuity across relocation or household succession.", "Flag contested terminology, unsupported 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"gendered-access-and-mobility", "name": "Gendered access and mobility", "description": "Explains how domestic separation was established, negotiated and enforced.", "rationale": "Access boundaries help distinguish the institution, but their practical operation must be investigated rather than assumed.", "layers": [ { "id": "admission-and-visiting", "name": "Admission and visiting", "description": "Identifies who could cross institutional boundaries and under what conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "differentiated-access", "name": "Differentiated access", "description": "Record permissions by person, role, occasion and location, including documented exceptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who could enter which domestic areas, for what purposes and with whose permission?", "kind": "action", "id": "differentiated-access-q01" }, { "text": "Which evidence distinguishes prescribed admission rules from actual visiting practices?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "differentiated-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-outside-contact", "name": "Movement and outside contact", "description": "Examines travel, communication and relationships beyond the household boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "practical-reach-of-separation", "name": "Practical reach of separation", "description": "Assess separation through documented movement and contact rather than assuming complete confinement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Under what circumstances could residents travel, receive correspondence or maintain outside relationships?", "kind": "action", "id": "practical-reach-of-separation-q01" }, { "text": "Did these possibilities vary by personal status, life stage or historical period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "practical-reach-of-separation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-household-resources", "name": "Authority and household resources", "description": "Locates decision-making powers and the material means supporting the institution.", "rationale": "Formal household rank alone 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"support-and-material-dependency", "name": "Support and material dependency", "description": "Distinguish resources maintaining the household from resources controlled by individual members.", "questions": [ { "text": "What documented funding, provisioning and labour arrangements sustained the harem?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "support-and-material-dependency-q01" }, { "text": "Which members could control property, income or expenditure, and what limits applied?", "kind": "action", "id": "support-and-material-dependency-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "household-functions-and-continuity", "name": "Household functions and continuity", "description": "Records the institution's demonstrated activities and its persistence through household change.", "rationale": "Its functions and lifespan cannot be inferred solely from a household head's identity or a palace's occupancy.", "layers": [ { "id": "documented-household-functions", "name": "Documented household functions", "description": "Tests which domestic, familial or wider functions are evidenced in this case.", "findings": [ { "id": "functions-without-universal-assumptions", "name": "Functions without universal assumptions", "description": "Record supported activities without presuming that every harem served the same reproductive, educational or political purposes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which activities are directly evidenced, and who performed or benefited from them?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "functions-without-universal-assumptions-q01" }, { "text": "Where do those activities connect to a wider court or dynasty rather than belong to the harem itself?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "functions-without-universal-assumptions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transformation-and-ending", "name": "Transformation and ending", "description": "Tracks changes in institutional identity and consequences for members.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-across-household-change", "name": "Continuity across household change", "description": "Assess whether relocation, succession or dispersal continued, reorganised or ended the institution.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence marks the institution's formation, major transformations and ending?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-across-household-change-q01" }, { "text": "Which membership ties and governing practices persisted after a change of residence or household leadership?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-across-household-change-q02" }, { "text": "What arrangements followed for residents and dependants when the institution dispersed?", "kind": "action", "id": "continuity-across-household-change-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone 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"questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of harem this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Enslavement and sexual coercion in settings where household membership included enslaved concubines.", "Restrictions on mobility and autonomy enforced through household authority.", "Vulnerability arising from unequal status among free relatives, wives, servants and enslaved residents.", "Historical misrepresentation that treats all residents as sexual partners or portrays every harem as the same institution." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of harem this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The Ottoman imperial harem had a distinctive hierarchy and dynastic role that should not be generalized to ordinary households.", "Mughal and other South Asian contexts often use the term zenana for women's domestic quarters; its institutional arrangements require separate contextual description.", "Practices varied across regions, periods and social classes; a harem was not a universal feature of Muslim households." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of harem this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to 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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. 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Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 76 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one harem from another, and a harem 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 harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem 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 harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem 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 harem between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a harem 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 harem, 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 harem, 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 harem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a harem.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a harem and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a harem, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a harem, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a harem, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a harem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a harem and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a harem sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a harem, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a harem, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a harem is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "legal-identity", "name": "Legal identity and mandate", "description": "What harem is in law and what it exists to do.", "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.", "layers": [ { "id": "registration", "name": "Legal form and registration", "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "registration-record", "name": "Registration and identifiers", "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.", "questions": [ { "id": "registration-record-q01", "text": "What legal form does harem take, in which register, under which identifier?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "registration-record-q02", "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mandate", "name": "Mandate and governing instrument", "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-record", "name": "Mandate and its source", "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.", "questions": [ { "id": "mandate-record-q01", "text": "What is the mandate of harem, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "mandate-record-q02", "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "governance-and-membership", "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights", "description": "Who decides in harem and who belongs to it.", "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.", "layers": [ { "id": "decision-rights", "name": "Decision rights", "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-map", "name": "Who may bind the organisation", "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.", "questions": [ { "id": "authority-map-q01", "text": "Which bodies or offices of harem may take which decisions, and up to what limit?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "authority-map-q02", "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership", "name": "Membership and affiliation", "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-rules", "name": "Membership and its evidence", "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.", "questions": [ { "id": "membership-rules-q01", "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does harem have, and how does each begin and end?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "membership-rules-q02", "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a harem 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 harem and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 harem is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a harem, 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 harem, 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 harem 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 } } } }