{ "model": { "rank": 6079, "code": "thing-q191710", "model_id": "vr.tr.aleuts", "name": "Aleuts", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Aleuts as an Indigenous people, assess community-specific continuity and priorities, and determine appropriate consultation and information use.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q191710/", "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": "Q191710", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191710", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:27:40Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.0096288, "turns": 1, "seconds": 170.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 95.7, "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: 01a07b9b-24df-7930-8dc2-0272fddb052f\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[Alutiiq Museum](https://alutiiqmuseum.org/collection/Detail/word/88)", "Distinguish affiliation with the people from residence in the Aleutian Islands; a geographic address alone establishes neither identity nor community membership.", "Distinguish the people from Unangam tunuu, their associated language; language proficiency is not a required identity test. [APIA history](https://www.apiai.org/departments/cultural-heritage-department/culture-history/history/)", "Check whether a record concerns the people collectively, a particular community or a named institution; none automatically represents all Aleuts.", "Require attributed identity evidence rather than inferring affiliation from appearance, surname, occupation or participation in cultural activities." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Preferred collective designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Community-supplied name, spelling, language and context of use", "why_it_matters": "Supports accurate naming without treating all historical labels as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Identity assertion basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-description; community attribution; administrative classification; historical outsider label; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Keeps evidence about affiliation separate from an agent's interpretation." }, { "name": "Community and place relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named community or place with ancestral, residential, relocation, return or diaspora relationship and time period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents current residence from replacing historical and continuing community connections." }, { "name": "Population estimate basis", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Persons, with date, geography, inclusion rule, source and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Prevents comparison of incompatible census, enrolment and self-identification totals." }, { "name": "Unangam tunuu transmission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Community-described use, speaker and learner definitions, teaching provision and observation date; unknown allowed", "why_it_matters": "Supports language priorities without equating language loss with loss of identity." }, { "name": "Cultural practice continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "For each named practice: maintained, adapting, being revitalised, interrupted, restricted or unknown, as locally described", "why_it_matters": "Allows change and renewal without imposing a single authenticity standard." }, { "name": "Marine and ancestral-place access", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Community-reported access conditions, barriers, affected activity and date", "why_it_matters": "Connects environmental or access changes to particular community priorities." }, { "name": "Representation mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Representative, represented community, subject, mandate evidence and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who can address a proposed action without assuming universal authority." }, { "name": "Cultural information permission", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Public; permission required; restricted; disputed; unknown, with custodian and permitted uses", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes availability of information from permission to translate, reproduce or reuse it." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate Aleut-labelled records while retaining original terminology and unresolved interpretations.", "Connect community histories across ancestral places, relocation destinations and diaspora settings.", "Compare dated language and cultural continuity observations using compatible community-defined measures.", "Identify the appropriate community or institution to consult about a specified proposal.", "Assess a proposed publication, translation or reuse against recorded cultural permissions.", "Describe community-identified consequences of changes in marine access or heritage stewardship without authorising regulated activities." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "hnaI-5-lantis", "title": "Aleut, in Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 5: Arctic", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Standard ethnographic synthesis of Unangax̂ social organisation, territory, and distinction from neighbouring Arctic peoples." }, { "id": "bergsland-1994", "title": "Aleut Dictionary: Unangam Tunudgusii", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "" }, { "id": "laughlin-1980", "title": "Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Biological-anthropological and archaeological account of Aleutian settlement, pre-contact population scale, and continuity in the chain." }, { "id": "black-2004", "title": "Russians in Alaska, 1732-1867", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Colonial-period labour, baptism, Creole estate, forced relocations to the Pribilofs and Commanders, and the Russian exonym \"Aleut\" applied beyond Unangax̂." }, { "id": "pl-100-383", "title": "Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act (Pub. L. 100-383, title II)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "US statutory recognition of WWII internment of Unangax̂ from the Aleutians and Pribilofs and of the Attu captivity in Japan." }, { "id": "ancsa-1971", "title": "Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (Pub. L. 92-203)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Legal identity of The Aleut Corporation and village corporations as the land-claims vehicle for this people in Alaska." } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "names-and-collective-boundaries", "name": "Names and collective boundaries", "description": "Resolve what Aleut denotes in each source and whose identification it records.", "rationale": "The registry lacks a definition, and historical naming can conflate distinct peoples.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-names", "name": "Community names", "description": "Preserve preferred designations alongside source terminology.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-context-and-preference", "name": "Name context and preference", "description": "Record Aleut, Unangax̂ and other attested designations with their community, spelling, period and preferred use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which designation and spelling does the relevant community use for itself in this context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-context-and-preference-q01" }, { "text": "Who supplied the designation, and is it a self-description, translation or outside classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-context-and-preference-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ambiguous-aleut-records", "name": "Ambiguous Aleut records", "description": "Separate collective identity from geographic and administrative labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-disambiguation", "name": "Referent disambiguation", "description": "Determine whether a record refers to Unangax̂ people, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq, regional residents or an institution without automatically merging these referents.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence identifies the people intended by this source's use of Aleut?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-disambiguation-q01" }, { "text": "Should this record link to vr.tr.aleuts, a neighbouring model or an explicitly unresolved reference?", "kind": "action", "id": "referent-disambiguation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "homelands-relocation-and-diaspora", "name": "Homelands, relocation and diaspora", "description": "Represent distinct ancestral, historical and present-day relationships to places.", "rationale": "APIA distinguishes ancestral territory from later settlement in the Pribilof and Commander Islands, making time and movement essential to place relationships. [APIA history](https://www.apiai.org/departments/cultural-heritage-department/culture-history/history/)", "layers": [ { "id": "community-place-continuity", "name": "Community-place continuity", "description": "Link communities to places without making a current map define the people.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-place-relationships", "name": "Dated place relationships", "description": "Record ancestral occupation, subsequent settlement and continuing attachment as different relationships supported by attributed evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Aleutian, Alaska Peninsula, Pribilof, Commander Island or diaspora places does the community identify as significant, and in what way?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dated-place-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Which community accounts or historical records support each relationship and its dates?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-place-relationships-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "displacement-and-distribution", "name": "Displacement and distribution", "description": "Track movement and population evidence without erasing displaced communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-and-counting-basis", "name": "Movement and counting basis", "description": "Distinguish voluntary migration, coerced relocation, wartime displacement and return where evidenced; attach explicit inclusion rules to population observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which movement histories explain this community's present distribution, and whose account establishes their circumstances?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "movement-and-counting-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Does this population estimate count residents, self-identified Aleuts, enrolled members or another defined population, and for what date and area?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "movement-and-counting-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "language-and-cultural-transmission", "name": "Language and cultural transmission", "description": "Record locally defined continuity and renewal of language and cultural practice.", "rationale": "An agent needs to recognise distinct transmission needs without reducing Aleut identity to speaking a language or practising a fixed tradition.", "layers": [ { "id": "unangam-tunuu-continuity", "name": "Unangam tunuu continuity", "description": "Connect language varieties, learning and use to particular communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "language-use-and-learning", "name": "Language use and learning", "description": "Record community-named varieties, use settings, teaching resources and dated assessments of transmission.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Unangam tunuu variety and writing conventions are appropriate for this community and material?", "kind": "definition", "id": "language-use-and-learning-q01" }, { "text": "How does the community distinguish speakers, learners and teaching capacity when assessing transmission?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "language-use-and-learning-q02" }, { "text": "Who should review a proposed translation or language-learning resource before it is presented as appropriate for this community?", "kind": "action", "id": "language-use-and-learning-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "practice-and-teaching", "name": "Practice and teaching", "description": "Represent knowledge transmission through locally identified practices and relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-defined-cultural-continuity", "name": "Community-defined cultural continuity", "description": "For practices such as weaving, skin-boat making, dance or food preparation, record relevance, teachers, transmission settings and community-described change.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which practices does this community identify as priorities for continued teaching or revitalisation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "community-defined-cultural-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes active transmission, adaptation, interruption and lack of documentation for each practice?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "community-defined-cultural-continuity-q02" }, { "text": "What permissions and review are required before recording a teaching session or reusing its content?", "kind": "action", "id": "community-defined-cultural-continuity-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "marine-relationships-and-heritage", "name": "Marine relationships and heritage", "description": "Connect community priorities to marine access, food relationships and stewardship of ancestral heritage.", "rationale": "A model of Aleut collective continuity must be able to describe community-specific relationships with coastal resources and heritage without treating them as uniform or freely reusable.", "layers": [ { "id": "marine-food-and-access", "name": "Marine food and access", "description": "Record the community significance of harvesting, preparation and sharing.", "findings": [ { "id": "food-relationship-conditions", "name": "Food relationship conditions", "description": "Identify locally significant marine foods, seasonal practices, sharing relationships and reported barriers without deriving legal harvesting permission from ethnicity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which marine foods and associated harvesting or sharing practices matter to this community?", "kind": "definition", "id": "food-relationship-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What dated observations describe changes in access, availability or opportunities to teach these practices?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "food-relationship-conditions-q02" }, { "text": "Which separate authority or regulation must be consulted before a proposed harvesting activity can be evaluated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "food-relationship-conditions-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ancestral-heritage-stewardship", "name": "Ancestral heritage stewardship", "description": "Connect places, collections and records to the communities concerned with their care.", "findings": [ { "id": "custodianship-and-sensitive-heritage", "name": "Custodianship and sensitive heritage", "description": "Record attributed relationships to ancestral sites, burial places, objects and recordings, including disputed attribution and access restrictions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community or custodian identifies a relationship to this site, object or recording, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "custodianship-and-sensitive-heritage-q01" }, { "text": "Who must be consulted before publishing a location, reproducing material or initiating a heritage-related request?", "kind": "action", "id": "custodianship-and-sensitive-heritage-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "representation-and-authorised-use", "name": "Representation and authorised use", "description": "Determine who may speak or grant permission for a particular community and subject.", "rationale": "A collective name cannot establish an institution's mandate or make cultural information available for unrestricted agent use.", "layers": [ { "id": "community-representation", "name": "Community representation", "description": "Separate cultural affiliation from organisational authority.", "findings": [ { "id": "mandate-and-constituency", "name": "Mandate and constituency", "description": "Link tribal, cultural, corporate and other representative bodies to their documented constituency and subject-specific remit.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which community and subject does this body represent, and what establishes that mandate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "mandate-and-constituency-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed consultation concern cultural knowledge, tribal governance, corporate assets or another remit requiring a different contact?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "mandate-and-constituency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-reuse-permissions", "name": "Evidence and reuse permissions", "description": "Preserve attribution, disagreement and conditions attached to community knowledge.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-claims-and-permitted-actions", "name": "Attributed claims and permitted actions", "description": "Keep community testimony, archival descriptions and agent interpretation distinguishable; record permission separately for access, quotation, translation, publication and AI reuse.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose account supports this claim, which community and period does it concern, and are competing accounts recorded?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-claims-and-permitted-actions-q01" }, { "text": "What permission covers the intended use, and what remains unknown or requires consultation?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-claims-and-permitted-actions-q02" }, { "text": "How can the relevant community request correction, restriction or withdrawal of this representation?", "kind": "action", "id": "attributed-claims-and-permitted-actions-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone 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": [ "Eastern Unangan (Fox Islands: Unalaska, Umnak, Akutan and related villages)", "Western Unangas (Andreanof Islands, especially Atka)", "Attuan / Near Islands Unangax̂ (Attu, Agattu; dialect nearly extinct)", "Pribilof Unangax̂ (St. Paul and St. George, settled from the 1780s for fur-seal labour)", "Commander Islands Aleuts (Bering and Medny islands, Kamchatka Krai, Russian Federation)", "Russian-America Creoles of Aleut ancestry (19th-century colonial legal estate, not a separate ethnolinguistic people)", "ANCSA Aleut Corporation shareholders (US settlement-law class, not an ethnological variety)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": "ISO 639-3", "value_or_pattern": "ale", "note": "Codes Unangam Tunuu (the Aleut language), not the ethnic group as such." }, { "scheme": "ISO 639-2", "value_or_pattern": "ale", "note": "Bibliographic/terminology code for the language." }, { "scheme": "Glottolog", "value_or_pattern": "aleu1260", "note": "Aleut language; dialect nodes sit under this." }, { "scheme": "IETF BCP 47", "value_or_pattern": "ale", "note": "Language tag used in localisation and archival metadata." }, { "scheme": "US Census Bureau AIAN tribal grouping", "value_or_pattern": "Aleut", "note": "Self-identified census grouping; includes people who use the colonial exonym and is not coextensive with enrolled Unangax̂ tribes." }, { "scheme": "Russian census nationality", "value_or_pattern": "алеуты", "note": "Listed indigenous nationality in the Russian Federation, concentrated on the Commander Islands." }, { "scheme": "ANCSA regional corporation", "value_or_pattern": "The Aleut Corporation", "note": "Shareholder roll under US land-claims law; a legal, not ethnological, identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": [ "Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (US Congress, 1971) - The Aleut Corporation and associated village corporations", "Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act, Pub. L. 100-383 title II (US Congress, 1988) - WWII internment compensation", "Federally recognized tribal status via the Bureau of Indian Affairs list of Alaska Native entities (US Department of the Interior) for Unangax̂ IRA villages", "Marine Mammal Protection Act Alaska Native subsistence exemption (US Congress, 1972)", "Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act Title VIII subsistence (US Congress, 1980)", "Federal List of Indigenous Small-Numbered Peoples of the Russian Federation (Government of the Russian Federation) - алеуты of Kamchatka Krai" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": [ "Tribal enrollment, IRA village government, and ANCSA shareholder administration in the Fox, Andreanof, and Pribilof communities", "Unangam Tunuu revitalisation classes and documentation in Unalaska, Atka, the Pribilofs, and Nikolskoye", "Subsistence harvest of seals, sea lions, fish, invertebrates, birds and eggs under Alaska Native exemptions", "Bering Sea / Aleutian commercial fisheries, processing labour, and Community Development Quota participation", "Russian Orthodox parish life as the main Christian institution since eighteenth-century missionisation", "WWII heritage work at Dutch Harbor, Attu, and the Southeast Alaska internment sites", "Historical and residual northern fur-seal administration on St. Paul and St. George" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": "People in the United States identifying as Aleut (Census AIAN tribal grouping)", "typical_range": "15000-25000", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "People in the Russian Federation enumerated as Aleut", "typical_range": "300-500", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "First-language speakers of Unangam Tunuu", "typical_range": "under 150, almost all elders", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Pre-contact population (ethnohistoric/archaeological estimates)", "typical_range": "12000-25000", "unit": "persons" }, { "quantity": "Length of the Aleutian island chain (Alaska Peninsula to Attu)", "typical_range": "about 1900", "unit": "km" }, { "quantity": "WWII internment mortality among evacuated Unangax̂", "typical_range": "about 10 (roughly 74-80 deaths among ~880 interned)", "unit": "percent" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": [ "Colonial and museum use of \"Aleut\" for Sugpiaq/Alutiiq people, producing mislabelled collections, genealogies, and census rows", "Shift from Unangam Tunuu to English (Alaska) and Russian (Commanders); language is critically endangered", "Eighteenth-nineteenth-century collapse from epidemics, forced relocation, and promyshlenniki violence", "WWII forced evacuation and internment of Unangax̂ from the chain and Pribilofs; Attu villagers taken to Japan", "Volcanic eruptions, megathrust earthquakes, and tsunamis along the Aleutian arc", "Military contamination and unexploded ordnance, including fallout from underground nuclear tests at Amchitka", "Supply isolation, housing, and health disparities in small island communities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": [ "Endonym Unangax̂ (singular), Unangan (eastern plural), Unangas (western plural); English and US law use Aleut; Russian uses алеуты", "Three historical dialect areas of Unangam Tunuu: Eastern (Fox Island), Western (Atkan), Attuan (Near Islands)", "Alaska publications use a Latin (Bergsland) orthography; Commander Islands use Cyrillic", "Russian colonial \"Aleut\" was extended to Kodiak and Prince William Sound Sugpiaq; some families there still self-identify as Aleut", "Pribilof communities are historically transplanted Unangax̂, not aboriginal to those islands", "Commander Island Aleuts descend from Atkan and Attuan relocatees mixed with Russians, including the extinct Copper Island Attuan-Russian variety (Mednovsky)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Aleuts 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": "Sugpiaq / Alutiiq", "difference": "Yupik-branch language and Kodiak / Alaska Peninsula / Prince William Sound homeland; the Russian word \"Aleut\" is not a linguistic test - Unangam Tunuu vs Sugt'stun and traditional territory are." }, { "name": "Central Alaskan Yup'ik", "difference": "Eskimo branch of Eskimo-Aleut, mainland Bering Sea; not the Aleutian chain and not mutually intelligible with Unangam Tunuu." }, { "name": "Iñupiaq", "difference": "Eskimo branch, Arctic Alaska north of Norton Sound; different branch, different ice-and-land ecology." }, { "name": "Dena'ina", "difference": "Na-Dene (Athabaskan) family of Cook Inlet and inland basins; unrelated language family and different subsistence base." }, { "name": "Itelmen (Kamchadal)", "difference": "Chukotko-Kamchatkan people of Kamchatka; geographic neighbours of Commander Island Aleuts, not Eskimo-Aleut." }, { "name": "Russian Creoles of Alaska", "difference": "A colonial legal estate of mixed ancestry that could include Unangax̂ parentage; caste status, not an ethnolinguistic group." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Aleuts this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend Aleuts specifically as Unangax̂, or does its undocumented source use a broader historical classification?", "Which preferred names, spellings and collective boundaries should participating communities establish, including communities associated with the Commander Islands?", "Which current population and Unangam tunuu transmission estimates have sufficiently explicit dates, inclusion rules and community validation?", "Which community-specific mandates and cultural information protocols govern consultation, publication, translation and AI reuse?", "Which histories of displacement, heritage attribution and present access remain disputed or insufficiently documented by the communities concerned?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 32 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 Aleuts, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise references to Aleuts as an Indigenous people, assess community-specific continuity and priorities, and determine appropriate consultation and information use.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "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 Aleuts, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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 Aleuts from another, and a Aleuts 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a Aleuts is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a Aleuts is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Aleuts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a Aleuts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a Aleuts moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a Aleuts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a Aleuts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a Aleuts 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Aleuts 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Aleuts.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Aleuts and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Aleuts, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Aleuts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Aleuts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Aleuts and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Aleuts sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Aleuts, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Aleuts, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Aleuts.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does Aleuts require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses Aleuts, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What Aleuts actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define Aleuts, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Aleuts, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Aleuts 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 Aleuts and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts 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 Aleuts is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Aleuts, 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 Aleuts, 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 Aleuts is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }