{ "model": { "rank": 5775, "code": "thing-q186190", "model_id": "vr.tr.skeleton-q186190", "name": "skeleton", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise skeleton as a sledding activity, assess a participant's readiness and run state, and identify which participation, training or competition actions are permitted.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q186190/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "men's skeleton", "women's skeleton", "Skeleton competition" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.skeleton", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q186190", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186190", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:16:26Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 14.6, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 86.5, "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: 01a07b26-4253-7f00-a49b-e63ea45f2624\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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phases, performance evidence and applicable constraints; the sporting interpretation of the registry entry remains to be confirmed.", "in_scope": [ "Defining riding posture, sled use and descent format", "Participant, sled and track relationships for a particular run", "Start, descent, finish and interruption states", "Timing, trajectory observations and comparable performance", "Run eligibility, track release and competition adjudication" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Anatomical skeletons and skeletal health", "Sled manufacturing, component engineering and maintenance procedures", "Ice-track construction and facility operations", "Athlete medical diagnosis and treatment", "Whole-event scheduling, commercial management and federation governance" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The rider descends prone and head-first, distinguishing the activity from feet-first, supine luge.", "The rider is supported on a sled rather than seated inside a bobsleigh.", "The descent involves one rider per sled rather than a crew sharing a vehicle.", "A skeleton training exercise may isolate the push start or another phase; its relationship to skeleton must be recorded rather than assuming every exercise is a complete descent." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Activity format", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "competition run | training descent | start practice | other declared exercise", "why_it_matters": "Determines which run phases, timing evidence and permissions are relevant." }, { "name": "Riding orientation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "prone and head-first | transitional | other | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition of the discipline while allowing the start and loading phases to differ from descent posture." }, { "name": "Participant-sled assignment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "identified participant linked to the sled used for the attempt", "why_it_matters": "Connects eligibility, equipment checks and results to the actual rider and sled." }, { "name": "Track and start configuration", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "track identity, start position, finish position and configuration reference", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the route attempted and whether times can meaningfully be compared." }, { "name": "Run phase", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "awaiting release | push start | loading | descent | finish crossed | stopping | concluded | interrupted", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes readiness to start, timed completion and completion of the stopping phase." }, { "name": "Elapsed and split times", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "seconds, with timing points, timing method and precision", "why_it_matters": "Measures performance and locates differences between attempts." }, { "name": "Track-condition context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "time-stamped condition report associated with the run", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for interpreting readiness and performance differences." }, { "name": "Run disposition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "pending | accepted | under review | invalid | did not start | did not finish, mapped to applicable rules", "why_it_matters": "Separates an observed attempt from a result accepted for competition purposes." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify an observed activity as a skeleton descent, a related exercise or an unresolved case.", "Associate a participant, sled, track configuration and release decision with an attempt.", "Record transitions through push, loading, descent, finish and stopping phases.", "Compare start, split and finish performance between sufficiently comparable runs.", "Flag missing eligibility evidence, unresolved equipment checks or absent track release for authorised review.", "Trace an accepted, interrupted or invalidated result to timing evidence and the applicable decision." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "discipline-and-attempt-boundary", "name": "Discipline and attempt boundary", "description": "Identifies skeleton and distinguishes full descents from exercises that reproduce only part of the activity.", "rationale": "Head-first sled descent is the central recognition test, but skeleton participation also includes practice that lacks a complete run.", "layers": [ { "id": "descent-identity", "name": "Descent identity", "description": "Records the observable riding arrangement that identifies the discipline.", "findings": [ { "id": "rider-posture-and-sled-arrangement", "name": "Rider posture and sled arrangement", "description": "The model must distinguish the descent posture and rider arrangement from luge, bobsleigh and incidental sled use.", "questions": [ { "text": "During descent, is one rider supported prone and head-first on the sled?", "kind": "definition", "id": "rider-posture-and-sled-arrangement-q01" }, { "text": "What observation or activity designation distinguishes this attempt from another sledding discipline?", "kind": "boundary", "id": 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rider-sled combination being admitted to a particular track configuration.", "layers": [ { "id": "rider-sled-admission", "name": "Rider-sled admission", "description": "Records the evidence used to admit the participant and sled to the session.", "findings": [ { "id": "assigned-rider-and-checked-sled", "name": "Assigned rider and checked sled", "description": "Readiness must refer to the rider and sled actually used, with checks interpreted under the applicable session requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which participant and sled are assigned to this attempt, and which participation or equipment checks apply?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assigned-rider-and-checked-sled-q01" }, { "text": "Who recorded those checks, when, and what unresolved condition affects admission?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assigned-rider-and-checked-sled-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "track-release", "name": "Track release", "description": "Captures permission to enter the intended descent route.", "findings": [ { "id": "release-for-selected-start", "name": "Release for selected start", "description": "Being ready at the start and being authorised to launch are separate states that require track-specific evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which track configuration and start position are available to this participant for this attempt?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "release-for-selected-start-q01" }, { "text": "Has the responsible track authority released this attempt, or must it remain on hold?", "kind": "action", "id": "release-for-selected-start-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "push-loading-and-descent", "name": "Push, loading and descent", "description": "Represents execution from the initial push through travel along the track.", "rationale": "Skeleton performance and incomplete attempts must be interpreted through the transition from running with the sled to riding it.", "layers": [ { "id": "push-and-loading", "name": "Push and loading", "description": "Separates acceleration at the start from the transition onto the sled.", "findings": [ { "id": "start-phase-execution", "name": "Start-phase execution", "description": "The model must record whether the push and loading occurred and which observations or measurements describe them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the attempt progress from the push into a loaded descent, and where did that transition occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "start-phase-execution-q01" }, { "text": "Which timing points or observations describe the push and loading without conflating them with the whole run?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "start-phase-execution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "track-traversal", "name": "Track traversal", "description": "Locates descent observations along identifiable track sections.", "findings": [ { "id": "line-and-contact-observations", "name": "Line and contact observations", "description": "Trajectory deviations, contacts and riding interruptions need location and evidence rather than unsupported explanations of rider technique.", "questions": [ { "text": "At which track sections were line deviations, wall contacts or loss of riding position observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "line-and-contact-observations-q01" }, { "text": "Which video, sensor record or observer report supports each observation, and which causal interpretations remain uncertain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "line-and-contact-observations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "timing-and-performance-comparison", "name": "Timing and performance comparison", "description": "Makes run measurements interpretable and comparisons defensible.", "rationale": "A finish time alone cannot distinguish start performance, section losses or changes in track configuration and conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "timing-coverage", "name": "Timing coverage", "description": "Defines what each recorded time measures.", "findings": [ { "id": "timing-points-and-integrity", "name": "Timing points and integrity", "description": "Elapsed and split times require known boundaries, units and evidence of timing validity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which start, split and finish points bound each recorded time?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "timing-points-and-integrity-q01" }, { "text": "What timing system produced the values, and are any readings missing, disputed or corrected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "timing-points-and-integrity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "run-comparability", "name": "Run comparability", "description": "Determines which performance comparisons the available context supports.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-descent-context", "name": "Comparable descent context", "description": "Comparison must account for route, timing boundaries, equipment assignment and recorded track conditions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the compared attempts share track configuration, start position and timing boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "comparable-descent-context-q01" }, { "text": "What differences in sled 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a skeleton 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 skeleton 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 skeleton from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 skeleton 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 skeleton between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 skeleton, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a skeleton is 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] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a skeleton 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 skeleton consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a skeleton 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton, by which method, and when was it 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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 skeleton 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 skeleton 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 skeleton 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 skeleton?", "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 skeleton?", "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 skeleton 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 skeleton and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 skeleton is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a skeleton, 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 skeleton, 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 skeleton 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 } } } }