{ "model": { "rank": 4637, "code": "thing-q170552", "model_id": "vr.tr.balcony", "name": "balcony", "purpose": "Let an agent explain balconies, relay types, architecture, safety codes and cultural uses from architecture, building regulation and heritage sources, describe the named forms and flag the unverified alias, relay fall prevention, and distinguish balconies from terraces, verandas, loggias and theatre balconies as seating tiers.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q170552/", "tier": 2, "score": 73, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "cantoria", "Wooden church gallery (Basque Country)", "double balcony", "access balconies", "Şerefe (minaret)", "Parlera", "balconet", "balconies of Lima" ], "aliasCount": 8, "merged": 8, "knownIn": 73, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.balcony-artifact", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q170552", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170552", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-14T00:33:07Z", "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-Q170552", "registryId": "vr.tr.balcony", "name": "balcony", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q170552/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.balcony", "name": "balcony", "purpose": "Let an agent explain balconies, relay types, architecture, safety codes and cultural uses from architecture, building regulation and heritage sources, describe the named forms and flag the unverified alias, relay fall prevention, and distinguish balconies from terraces, verandas, loggias and theatre balconies as seating tiers.", "definition": "A platform projecting from the wall of a building, enclosed by a railing or balustrade, accessed from an upper floor, used for outdoor space, ventilation, access or ceremonial appearances, with forms the registry aliases name including access balconies serving flats, double balconies, church galleries such as the cantoria for singers in Italian churches and the wooden galleries of Basque churches, and the serefe, the balcony of a minaret from which the call to prayer was traditionally made; parlera could not be verified. Balconies must meet building code requirements for guard height and load, and falls from balconies, especially of children, are preventable injuries, while combustible balcony materials have been restricted after fires.", "what_it_is_for": "Outdoor space, access and display on upper floors.", "affordances": [ "explain types and architecture", "relay safety codes", "describe named forms", "relay fall and fire prevention" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Projection from facade", "Railing or balustrade", "Upper-floor access", "Safety regulated" ], "appearance": "Projecting platforms with railings on building facades.", "visual_identification": [ "Railed platform projecting from an upper floor", "Cantoria, wooden church gallery of the Basque Country, double balcony, access balconies, serefe, parlera", "Terraces are on roofs or ground; verandas are roofed porches; loggias are recessed; theatre balconies are seating tiers" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "common guard height requirement", "typical_range": "about 1.0-1.1", "unit": "m", "note": "varies by code" }, { "quantity": "Lacrosse building fire", "typical_range": "2014", "unit": "year", "note": "Melbourne, as reported" }, { "quantity": "registry parents", "typical_range": "fixed construction, architectural ornament", "unit": "note", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "cantilevered balconies", "access balconies", "Juliet balconies", "church and minaret galleries", "ceremonial balconies" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "fixed construction", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "includes", "target": "serefe", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "loggia", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "veranda", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Building codes for guard heights and loads", "Fire safety rules on combustible balcony materials", "Heritage protection for historic balconies" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Child falls", "Structural collapse", "Fire spread via balconies" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What a balcony is.", "rationale": "Definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has someone fallen from a balcony or is a balcony showing cracks or sagging, in which case call emergency services or evacuate and contact building authorities?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "text": "What is a balcony, and how does it differ from terraces, verandas, loggias and theatre balconies?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "forms", "name": "Forms", "description": "Named forms.", "findings": [ { "id": "forms-finding", "name": "Forms", "description": "Forms.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are cantorias, Basque church galleries, double and access balconies and serefe, and what might parlera mean?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific form?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "architecture", "name": "Architecture", "description": "Architecture.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "structure", "name": "Structure", "description": "Structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "structure-finding", "name": "Structure", "description": "Structure.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are cantilevered and supported balconies built?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "religious", "name": "Religious", "description": "Church and minaret galleries.", "findings": [ { "id": "religious-finding", "name": "Religious", "description": "Religious.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were cantorias and minaret balconies used in worship?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "safety", "name": "Safety", "description": "Safety.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "falls", "name": "Falls", "description": "Fall prevention.", "findings": [ { "id": "falls-finding", "name": "Falls", "description": "Falls.", "questions": [ { "text": "What guard heights and design rules prevent falls, especially of children?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits guard rail?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "fire", "name": "Fire", "description": "Combustible materials.", "findings": [ { "id": "fire-finding", "name": "Fire", "description": "Fire.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why have regulators restricted combustible balcony materials after fires?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the information current?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Culture.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "ceremony", "name": "Ceremony", "description": "Ceremonial balconies.", "findings": [ { "id": "ceremony-finding", "name": "Ceremony", "description": "Ceremony.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are balconies used for public appearances, such as papal and royal balconies?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Loggia of the Blessings?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mashrabiya", "name": "Mashrabiya", "description": "Screened balconies.", "findings": [ { "id": "mashrabiya-finding", "name": "Mashrabiya", "description": "Mashrabiya.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are screened oriel balconies such as mashrabiya?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits mashrabiya?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "The registry alias parlera could not be verified and should be reviewed", "Should cantoria and serefe be separate entries?", "How should building code requirements be linked?" ], "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 balcony, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain balconies, relay types, architecture, safety codes and cultural uses from architecture, building regulation and heritage sources, describe the named forms and flag the unverified alias, relay fall prevention, and distinguish balconies from terraces, verandas, loggias and theatre balconies as seating tiers.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: cantoria, Wooden church gallery (Basque Country), double balcony, access balconies, Şerefe (minaret), Parlera, balconet, balconies of Lima.", "8 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 73 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 balcony, 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": [ { "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": [ "cantoria", "Wooden church gallery (Basque Country)", "double balcony", "access balconies", "Şerefe (minaret)", "Parlera", "balconet", "balconies of Lima" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 73 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 8 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 balcony from another, and a balcony 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 balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony 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 balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony 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 balcony between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a balcony 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 balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", 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"steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a balcony 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 balcony consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a balcony 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 balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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balcony 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 balcony 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 balcony?", "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 balcony?", "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 balcony 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 balcony and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 balcony is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a balcony, 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 balcony, 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 balcony 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 } } } }