wife
Let an agent handle the concept of wife in kinship and law in general terms, avoid stereotypes about roles, and route anyone facing domestic abuse to confidential help, without personal legal advice.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Safety Domestic abuse.
Danger
Immediate risk.
Danger
Immediate risk.
- Is someone in immediate danger from a partner? boundary
- Should they call emergency services now? action
Support
Confidential help.
Support
Confidential support.
- Which confidential domestic abuse helplines operate here? provenance
- How can they be contacted safely? action
Law Rights.
Rights
Spousal rights.
Rights
Spousal rights.
- What rights do spouses have here on property, inheritance and support, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user seeking legal advice for their own case? boundary
Cohabitation
Unmarried partners.
Cohabitation
Cohabitation.
- Does this legal system recognise common-law or cohabiting partners as spouses? provenance
- Which rights differ? provenance
Language Terms.
Address
Forms of address.
Address
Forms of address.
- How are wives addressed or titled in this language or culture? provenance
- Does a wife change her surname here, by law or custom? provenance
Translation
Kinship terms.
Translation
Translation.
- Which word for wife fits the register and region? provenance
- Are there in-law terms to consider? definition
Conduct Neutral handling.
Roles
Stereotypes.
Roles
Role stereotypes.
- Does the request assume fixed roles for wives? boundary
- How can the agent answer without stereotypes? action
History
Legal history.
History
Legal history.
- How did the legal status of wives change historically, according to historians? provenance
- Which reforms mattered? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- grass widow, niece-in-law, Queen Consort of Italy, tailor's wife, common-law wife, matrona, ex-wife, Tanwī, wife of brother of husband, wife of brother of wife, kadinefendi, seishitsu
What it is Filled
A woman who is married, in relation to her spouse; the term applies in both different-sex and same-sex marriages, and legal rights, naming customs and forms of address vary by country and tradition.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle the concept of wife in kinship and law in general terms, avoid stereotypes about roles, and route anyone facing domestic abuse to confidential help, without personal legal advice.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Spousal relationship
- Legally defined
- Customs vary by culture
- Applies in same-sex marriages too
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Treat a wife as subordinate to or represented by her spouse without her own consent.
- Disclose a person's marital status or spouse without consent.
- Assume a wife has taken her spouse's name or address.
- Assume a marriage is between a man and a woman where the law and the people say otherwise.
Only with a human decision
- Acting on behalf of a spouse in legal, medical or financial matters.
May
- Use the term as the person and the relevant law use it, in any form of marriage.
- Record a person's marital status only where a lawful purpose needs it.
Moral aspects Filled
- Wives have historically lacked legal rights over property, body and children; equality is recent and incomplete.
- Domestic abuse within marriage requires that agents never help one spouse control the other.
Who is affected
- Women in marriages
- Their spouses and children
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the role; civil registries record marriages.
Master systems
- Civil registration of marriages
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1196129 - registry parent class
- Q130248687 - registry parent class
- Q84048852 - registry parent class
related
- spouse - category
- marriage - institution
- husband - relation
- family law - law
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.wife
- Wikidata: Q188830 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188830)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Marriage establishes the spousal relationship meant here.
- Titles and forms of address may indicate the relationship.
- Cohabitation or a civil partnership without marriage does not establish this married-woman sense.
- A relationship, not an object.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinship terms and forms of address
- find general information on spousal rights
- understand the status of cohabiting partners
- find confidential domestic abuse support
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Stereotyping roles of wives
- Assuming cohabitation equals marriage
- Missing signs of domestic abuse
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- National marriage and family law
- CEDAW
- Istanbul Convention on violence against women
Context of use required Filled
- Describing a family and legal relationship.
- wives in civil marriage
- wives in religious marriage
- consorts of monarchs
- widows (former wives)
- cohabiting partners (different legal status)
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q188830: wife - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Wife - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should spouse terms be merged?
- How should legal rights be localised?
- How should royal consorts be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q188830/spec.json