{ "model": { "rank": 6179, "code": "thing-q182186", "model_id": "vr.tr.pentagram", "name": "pentagram", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a pentagram, assess its geometric and representational state, and choose transformations or interpretations supported by evidence.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.QLT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q182186/", "tier": 2, "score": 62, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 62, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q182186", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182186", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T12:00:21Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.01123768, "turns": 1, "seconds": 191.7, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07bba-5ce5-71f2-a3d8-38742457fbc9\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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the same five-pointed device is used as a religious, apotropaic, and civic emblem.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, geometry, depiction and context-supported interpretation of a five-pointed star figure formed by connecting five outer vertices in a crossing cycle, including incomplete or distorted depictions whose intended identity requires assessment.", "in_scope": [ "The five-vertex crossing cycle that establishes pentagram identity", "Regular and irregular geometry, orientation and deformation", "Visible strokes, crossings, gaps and reconstruction uncertainty", "Relations to enclosing circles, inscriptions and composite designs", "Attributed meanings and constraints on altering a particular depiction" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The physical condition and ownership of an object bearing a pentagram", "General models of polygons, star polygons and geometric construction", "Religious traditions, organisations and belief systems", "Complete heraldic, decorative or ritual compositions containing the figure", "Legal rights governing reproduction of the surrounding artwork or emblem" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Trace whether five outer vertices connect in one closed cycle through nonadjacent vertices; an ordinary pentagon connects adjacent vertices without the star's crossings.", "For a complete simple depiction, check for five inward crossings and a central pentagonal region; a filled five-pointed silhouette alone does not establish this internal construction.", "Distinguish five long crossing segments from the ten alternating boundary segments of a five-pointed star outline.", "Treat a surrounding circle as an associated component rather than a requirement for pentagram identity; record the contextual use of the name 'pentacle' separately.", "Check connectivity before counting visible tips when strokes are obscured, decorated or distorted." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed crossing figure | probable depiction | ambiguous star | not a pentagram", "why_it_matters": "Separates observed construction from recognition based only on resemblance or a supplied label." }, { "name": "Observed outer vertices", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "count, with obscured or inferred vertices identified separately", "why_it_matters": "Tests the five-point structure without treating missing visual evidence as absence." }, { "name": "Connection pattern", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "five-vertex crossing cycle | partial cycle | silhouette only | incompatible | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Provides a stronger identity test than the number of visible points." }, { "name": "Geometric regularity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "regular within stated tolerance | irregular | perspective-distorted | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents ideal geometric properties from being assumed for every depiction." }, { "name": "Orientation", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "degrees for a selected tip relative to a named reference axis", "why_it_matters": "Makes rotation reproducible and avoids orientation labels without a frame of reference." }, { "name": "Stroke completeness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "complete | intentionally interrupted | occluded | damaged | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether tracing or repair requires inference." }, { "name": "Enclosure relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "no enclosure | inside circle | touching circle | crossing circle | other enclosure | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates the star figure from a composite symbol and records their spatial relationship." }, { "name": "Interpretation attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "claimed meaning linked to an identified interpreter, context and supporting evidence", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a geometric form or orientation from being assigned a universal meaning." } ], "affordances": [ "Trace and classify a candidate using its vertices and crossing cycle.", "Measure regularity and orientation against explicit tolerances and reference axes.", "Construct or redraw a pentagram while preserving its connection pattern.", "Propose completion of missing strokes with inferred portions identified.", "Rotate, resize or restyle a depiction subject to its geometric and contextual constraints.", "Attach evidenced interpretations without inferring the identity or beliefs of its bearer." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-pentagram", "title": "Pentagram - Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram", "what_it_supports": "Geometric definition {5/2}, golden-ratio intersections, cultural uses (Pythagorean, occult, Drudenfuß, Moroccan flag), and distinction from pentacle and solid five-pointed star.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "unicode-26xx", "title": "The Unicode Standard, Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600-U+26FF) - Unicode Consortium", "url": "https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf", "what_it_supports": "Encoded character identities U+26E4 PENTAGRAM, U+26E5 right-handed interlaced pentagram, U+26E6 left-handed interlaced pentagram, U+26E7 inverted pentagram.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "coxeter-regular-polytopes", "title": "Regular Polytopes, 3rd ed. - H. S. M. Coxeter, Dover Publications", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Star polygons, Schläfli symbol {5/2}, density 2, and the identity of {5/3} with the opposite traversal of the same pentagram." }, { "id": "kepler-harmonices-mundi", "title": "Harmonices Mundi (1619) - Johannes Kepler", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Early systematic treatment of regular star polygons, including the pentagram, as geometric figures rather than only as emblems." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "star-identity", "name": "Star identity", "description": "Establish whether the observed figure has pentagram construction.", "rationale": "Five visible tips alone do not distinguish a pentagram from neighbouring star forms.", "layers": [ { "id": "outer-vertices", "name": "Outer vertices", "description": "Identify the five outer vertices independently of decorative additions.", "findings": [ { "id": "five-tip-evidence", "name": "Five-tip evidence", "description": "Record which candidate tips belong to the star and which are missing, inferred or decorative.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which five outer vertices define the candidate figure?", "kind": "definition", "id": "five-tip-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Are additional or missing tips explained by decoration, occlusion or a different star construction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "five-tip-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "crossing-cycle", "name": "Crossing cycle", "description": "Assess the connections that distinguish the figure from a pentagon or star silhouette.", "findings": [ { "id": "traceable-star-path", "name": "Traceable star path", "description": "Record the closed five-segment route through nonadjacent outer vertices and the evidence for its crossings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Can the five outer vertices be traversed in one closed crossing cycle?", "kind": "definition", "id": "traceable-star-path-q01" }, { "text": "Are the internal crossings visible, inferred from interrupted strokes, or absent from the depiction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "traceable-star-path-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pentagram-geometry", "name": "Pentagram geometry", "description": "Describe the figure's shape and placement without assuming ideal regularity.", "rationale": "Recognition, comparison and reconstruction depend on separating structural identity from geometric precision.", "layers": [ { "id": "regularity-and-deformation", "name": "Regularity and deformation", "description": "Assess deviations from a regular pentagram and their possible causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "regularity-assessment", "name": "Regularity assessment", "description": "Record geometric measurements, tolerances and uncertainty about distortion.", "questions": [ { "text": "How closely do the outer vertices fit equal angular spacing on a common circle under the chosen tolerance?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "regularity-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Does available evidence distinguish intentional irregularity from perspective distortion or drawing error?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "regularity-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "orientation-and-frame", "name": "Orientation and frame", "description": "Locate the star relative to an explicit viewing or application frame.", "findings": [ { "id": "referenced-tip-direction", "name": "Referenced tip direction", "description": "Record a selected tip's direction and any evidence that its orientation matters.", "questions": [ { "text": "What angle does the selected tip make with the named reference axis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "referenced-tip-direction-q01" }, { "text": "Which rotations preserve the intended use of this particular depiction?", "kind": "action", "id": "referenced-tip-direction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "stroke-realisation", "name": "Stroke realisation", "description": "Assess how the crossing figure is rendered and where its path is uncertain.", "rationale": "Gaps, overpasses and missing strokes can change what is observable without necessarily changing the intended figure.", "layers": [ { "id": "crossing-treatment", "name": "Crossing treatment", "description": "Describe the visual handling of intersecting segments.", "findings": [ { "id": "intersection-reading", "name": "Intersection reading", "description": "Distinguish plain intersections from over-under treatments and accidental visual merging.", "questions": [ { "text": "At each expected crossing, are both segments continuous, is one interrupted, or is the junction unreadable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "intersection-reading-q01" }, { "text": "Does crossing treatment encode an intended interlacing pattern or merely reflect the rendering method?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intersection-reading-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "missing-path-evidence", "name": "Missing path evidence", "description": "Separate observed strokes from proposed completion.", "findings": [ { "id": "reconstruction-limits", "name": "Reconstruction limits", "description": "Record missing segments and the limits of justified restoration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which portions of the five-segment cycle are directly observable and which require inference?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reconstruction-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence would justify completing each missing portion while preserving uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "reconstruction-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "symbol-context-and-use", "name": "Symbol context and use", "description": "Relate the geometric figure to its surrounding composition and evidenced interpretation.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish geometric recognition from contextual naming, meaning and permission to alter the depiction.", "layers": [ { "id": "composite-boundaries", "name": "Composite boundaries", "description": "Identify which elements belong to the pentagram and which belong to a larger symbol.", "findings": [ { "id": "enclosure-and-additions", "name": "Enclosure and additions", "description": "Record circles, letters and other additions as related components with explicit boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which strokes form the pentagram itself, and which form an enclosure, inscription or surrounding emblem?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "enclosure-and-additions-q01" }, { "text": "What source establishes the name used for this composite, including any use of 'pentacle'?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "enclosure-and-additions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attributed-meaning-and-editing", "name": "Attributed meaning and editing", "description": "Connect interpretations and permitted transformations to evidence about this depiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-bound-interpretation", "name": "Context-bound interpretation", "description": "Record who attributes a meaning and how that attribution constrains proposed edits.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who assigns a meaning to this pentagram, in what context, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "context-bound-interpretation-q01" }, { "text": "Would rotating the star, removing its circle or changing its crossing treatment alter its documented meaning or intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "context-bound-interpretation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Regular geometric pentagram {5/2} (the unicursal star polygon of density 2)", "Upright (one point up) pentagram as a Wiccan, neopagan, or ceremonial-magic emblem of the five elements", "Inverted (two points up) pentagram, including the Church of Satan Sigil of Baphomet", "Pentacle: a pentagram enclosed in a circumscribed circle (modern occult usage; historically the words overlap)", "Interlaced (over-under woven) pentagram versus a simple outline or a solid five-pointed star", "Vexillological Seal of Solomon pentagram (notably the green star on the flag of Morocco)", "Pythagorean or Hygieia pentagram used as a recognition emblem", "Spherical pentagram (Napier's pentagramma mirificum in spherical trigonometry)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q18532", "note": "Item commonly used for the pentagram; confirm against the live item before treating as a persistent key." }, { "scheme": "Schläfli symbol", "value_or_pattern": "{5/2}", "note": "Regular star pentagon; {5/3} is the same figure traversed the other way." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+26E4", "note": "Named PENTAGRAM; siblings U+26E5, U+26E6, U+26E7 for interlaced and inverted forms. The solid five-pointed star is a different character (e.g. U+2605)." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "The Unicode Standard (Unicode Consortium) - character names and code points U+26E4-U+26E7 for digital pentagram glyphs.", "ISO/IEC 10646 (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2) - Universal Coded Character Set, same pentagram repertoire as Unicode.", "National flag specification of the Kingdom of Morocco - a green five-pointed Seal of Solomon pentagram on a red field (do not cite a dahir number without checking the current text)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Drawn in geometry and design as a golden-ratio construction (diagonals of a regular pentagon).", "Worn as jewelry and used on altars in Wicca and related neopagan practice, usually point-up and often as a pentacle.", "Used inverted, with a goat's head, as the Sigil of Baphomet by the Church of Satan.", "Displayed as the green interlaced pentagram on the national flag of Morocco; a pentagram also appears in Ethiopian federal flag design.", "Marked historically on doors and thresholds in German-speaking Europe as a Drudenfuß against spirits.", "Drawn as the gobōsei (五芒星) associated with Abe no Seimei in Japanese Onmyōdō.", "Encountered far more often as a solid five-pointed star on flags, rank insignia, and wayfinding, a neighbouring figure often loosely called a pentagram." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "number of tips (vertices)", "typical_range": "5 (exactly, for a pentagram)", "unit": "count" }, { "quantity": "density (winding number) of {5/2}", "typical_range": "2", "unit": "dimensionless" }, { "quantity": "interior angle at each tip of a regular pentagram", "typical_range": "36", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "central angle between adjacent tips", "typical_range": "72", "unit": "degree" }, { "quantity": "diagonal-to-side ratio of the generating regular pentagon (golden ratio)", "typical_range": "1.6180339887…", "unit": "dimensionless" }, { "quantity": "typical pendant or amulet diameter", "typical_range": "10-50", "unit": "mm" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "An inverted or even upright pentagram is read in many Christian and popular contexts as a Satanic mark, prompting social conflict, workplace or school bans, and vandalism of the symbol or of people who wear it.", "Irregular drawing that breaks five-fold symmetry and loses the inner pentagon and golden-ratio intersections.", "Cataloguing and icon errors that treat a solid five-pointed star, a pentagon, or a hexagram as a pentagram.", "Historical moral panics (including late-20th-century Satanic Panic) treating possession or display of the figure as evidence of crime.", "In the Faust/Drudenfuß tradition, a pentagram drawn with a gap is narrated as failing as a barrier - a literary hazard, not a physical one." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "English-language occult practice often contrasts pentagram (star) with pentacle (star in a circle); historical sources use the words more loosely.", "German: Drudenfuß or Pentagramm, especially as a house-protection mark.", "Japanese: gobōsei / Seiman linked to Onmyōdō and Abe no Seimei, not to European Satanism.", "Maghreb and parts of the Islamic world: five-pointed Seal of Solomon (khatam Sulaymān) as a protective and civic emblem, as on Morocco's flag.", "United States and much of Christian Europe: point-down pentagram widely coded as Satanic; Wiccan communities treat point-up as the default benign form.", "Many national flags use a solid five-pointed star with no occult meaning; calling those pentagrams is common in speech and misleading in a registry." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "regular pentagon {5}", "difference": "A pentagon is convex; its sides meet only at the five vertices. A pentagram is a star polygon whose sides cross, forming an inner pentagon." }, { "name": "hexagram / Star of David", "difference": "Count the tips: six versus five. A hexagram is typically {6/2} as a compound of two triangles, not a unicursal {5/2}." }, { "name": "pentacle", "difference": "In modern occult usage, look for a circumscribed circle around the star; historically the two names were often synonyms, so the circle test is conventional, not ancient." }, { "name": "solid five-pointed star (heraldic mullet; Unicode BLACK STAR)", "difference": "A filled silhouette has no inner pentagon. The linear pentagram shows crossing strokes and a small pentagon in the centre." }, { "name": "heraldic cinquefoil", "difference": "A cinquefoil has five curved lobes like a flower, not five sharp star points." }, { "name": "Napier's pentagramma mirificum", "difference": "A spherical figure of five right-angled arcs on a sphere, used in spherical trigonometry, not the planar star polygon {5/2}." }, { "name": "heptagram {7/2} or {7/3}", "difference": "Seven tips versus five; the construction uses every second or third vertex of a heptagon, not a pentagon." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pentagram this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend 'pentagram' to cover the geometric figure, symbolic depictions, or both, given the missing definition?", "Should filled five-pointed silhouettes qualify through documented intent, or remain related star depictions without visible pentagram construction?", "What minimum evidence and geometric tolerances should distinguish a distorted or incomplete pentagram from an ambiguous star?", "Which contextual naming conventions govern the relationship between 'pentagram' and 'pentacle' in the catalogue?", "Which authoritative sources should support interpretation and alteration constraints for particular cultural or historical uses?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }, "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 pentagram, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a pentagram, assess its geometric and representational state, and choose transformations or interpretations supported by evidence.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 62 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 pentagram, 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": [], "standing": "Described in 62 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 pentagram from another, and a pentagram 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a pentagram 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram 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 pentagram?", "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 pentagram?", "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 pentagram 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 pentagram and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 pentagram is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pentagram, 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 pentagram, 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 pentagram 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 } } } }