{ "model": { "rank": 5102, "code": "thing-q192520", "model_id": "vr.tr.sailing", "name": "sailing", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a sailing activity, assess its operating state and constraints, and identify feasible next actions within the crew's competence and authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q192520/", "tier": 2, "score": 70, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "International DN", "sailing on traditional clinker boats", "single-handed sailing", "reefing" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 70, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.sailing", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q192520", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192520", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T21:40:19Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0881c-5f84-7fd3-a21a-8dfb5900c293\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"scope_statement": "This model owns sailing as the activity of operating a waterborne craft using wind acting on sails, including preparation, manoeuvring, passage execution and transitions to auxiliary propulsion; it distinguishes this activity from the craft, the sport's institutions and the physics of sail propulsion.", "in_scope": [ "The purpose, boundaries and current phase of a sailing session or passage", "The relationship between wind, sail configuration, heading and vessel motion", "Crew roles, competence and coordination during sail handling", "Route feasibility under wind, current, depth and clearance constraints", "Operating limits, developing hazards and decisions to continue, alter course or seek shelter" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Detailed design, manufacture and maintenance of sailing vessels and equipment", "General aerodynamic and hydrodynamic theory", "Administration of sailing clubs, competitions and sporting classifications", "Ownership, registration and commercial 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vessel-specific limits, crew limits and observed or forecast conditions", "why_it_matters": "Decisions require contextual limits rather than universal wind or wave thresholds." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a sailing episode by purpose, phase and actual propulsion mode.", "Compare candidate routes against wind direction, current, depth and available sailing angles.", "Identify preparations and crew assignments required for a proposed tack, gybe or sail change.", "Flag observations that indicate reduced control or departure from the declared operating envelope.", "Compare continuing, shortening sail, changing route and seeking shelter using explicit assumptions.", "Record manoeuvres and outcomes for passage review and crew learning." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "activity-and-intent", "name": "Activity and intent", "description": "Establishes which sailing activity is being represented and what it is trying to achieve.", "rationale": "A training exercise, 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"description": "Record the destination, exercise, race objective or working task and the conditions under which it may be revised.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is success defined by reaching a destination, practising a manoeuvre, completing a race or another sailing outcome?", "kind": "definition", "id": "sailing-objective-q01" }, { "text": "Which changes in conditions should cause the crew to revise or abandon that objective?", "kind": "action", "id": "sailing-objective-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "wind-sails-and-control", "name": "Wind, sails and control", "description": "Represents the craft's current propulsion and controllability through the relationship between wind, sails and motion.", "rationale": "Sailing decisions depend on relative wind and vessel response, not simply on whether sails are raised.", "layers": [ { "id": "wind-and-point-of-sail", "name": "Wind and point of sail", "description": "Separates wind observations from the craft's heading and feasible sailing angles.", "findings": [ { "id": "wind-relative-motion", "name": "Wind-relative motion", "description": "Record apparent and true wind distinctly, together with point of sail and uncertainty about headings the craft can sustain.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the current wind speed and direction, and are they apparent, true or forecast values?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wind-relative-motion-q01" }, { "text": "Which headings can this craft sustain under sail in these conditions, and what observations support that assessment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "wind-relative-motion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sail-plan-and-response", "name": "Sail plan and response", "description": "Links sail configuration to observable handling and available adjustments.", "findings": [ { "id": "sail-balance-and-control", "name": "Sail balance and control", "description": "Record sails set, reefing, trim and signs such as persistent luffing, excessive heel or difficulty holding course without assuming one configuration fits every rig.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sails and reefs are in use, and what heel, helm response and sail behaviour are observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sail-balance-and-control-q01" }, { "text": "Which trim or sail-area changes are available within this rig's procedures and the crew's capabilities?", "kind": "action", "id": "sail-balance-and-control-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "crew-and-manoeuvres", "name": "Crew and manoeuvres", "description": "Represents the people, preparations and coordinated actions required to change the sailing state.", "rationale": "Tacks, gybes and sail changes require sequences of actions whose feasibility depends on crew readiness and craft configuration.", "layers": [ { "id": "crew-capability", "name": "Crew capability", "description": "Connects sailing tasks with available people and their current ability to perform them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-and-readiness", "name": "Role and readiness", "description": "Record who 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"tack-gybe-and-sail-change-q01" }, { "text": "What observed heading, sail state and control response indicate completion or a need to recover?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "tack-gybe-and-sail-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "passage-and-water-space", "name": "Passage and water space", "description": "Relates sailing performance to the route, surrounding water and other traffic.", "rationale": "A navigable line on a chart may not be achievable under sail, and a feasible heading may still lead toward danger over ground.", "layers": [ { "id": "route-feasibility", "name": "Route feasibility", "description": "Evaluates progress through sailing legs rather than assuming direct travel to each destination.", "findings": [ { "id": "wind-and-current-route", "name": "Wind and current route", "description": "Record candidate legs, expected tacks or gybes, current effects and uncertainty in arrival or tidal timing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which legs require tacking or gybing, and how do current and leeway change the expected track?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "wind-and-current-route-q01" }, { "text": "When would inadequate progress or a missed tidal window require a different route or propulsion mode?", "kind": "action", "id": "wind-and-current-route-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clearance-and-encounters", "name": "Clearance and encounters", "description": "Connects the craft's movement and configuration to physical clearances and traffic constraints.", "findings": [ { "id": "safe-manoeuvring-space", "name": "Available manoeuvring space", "description": "Record depth, overhead clearance, lee-shore exposure and traffic encounters while linking applicable navigation rules to their external authority.", "questions": [ { "text": "What under-keel clearance, mast clearance and sea room remain along the intended track and during a manoeuvre?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "safe-manoeuvring-space-q01" }, { "text": "Which navigation rules or local restrictions apply to this encounter and the craft's actual propulsion mode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "safe-manoeuvring-space-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "conditions-and-contingencies", "name": "Conditions and contingencies", "description": "Tracks changing exposure, operating limits and options for recovering or ending the activity.", "rationale": "Sailing requires repeated reassessment because wind, waves, equipment condition and crew capacity can change the set of feasible actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "operating-envelope", "name": "Operating envelope", "description": "Relates observed and forecast conditions to limits appropriate to this craft, crew and route.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-against-limits", "name": "Conditions against limits", "description": "Record the basis of wind, sea-state, visibility and endurance limits, including uncertainty and signs of deteriorating control.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed and forecast conditions are approaching the declared limits for this 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"evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of sailing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Boat speed through water or over ground", "typical_range": "Many small recreational displacement sailboats commonly travel at roughly 3-8 knots; conditions and craft design produce substantial variation.", "unit": "knot" }, { "quantity": "True or apparent wind speed", "typical_range": "No universal operating range; suitability depends on craft, crew and conditions.", "unit": "knot or metre per second" }, { "quantity": "Wind angle relative to the bow", "typical_range": "0-180 degrees on either side; the unsailable upwind sector depends on the craft and conditions.", "unit": "degree" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of sailing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Capsize, knockdown or loss of stability", "Person overboard, with drowning or cold-water exposure", "Collision or grounding", "Rigging, sail or steering failure that reduces control", "Uncontrolled gybes and loaded lines causing impact, entanglement or crush injuries" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of sailing this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a 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What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "International DN", "sailing on traditional clinker boats", "single-handed sailing", "reefing" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 70 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 4 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one sailing from another, and a sailing 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 sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sailing 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 sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a sailing proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.", "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.", "layers": [ { "id": "steps-and-sequence", "name": "Steps and sequence", "description": "The steps of a sailing, their order and what may run in parallel.", "findings": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions", "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion", "description": "What has to be true before each step of a sailing and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a sailing, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a sailing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a sailing 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 sailing consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a sailing 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 sailing, 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 sailing, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing 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 sailing?", "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 sailing?", "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 sailing 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 sailing and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 sailing is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sailing, 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 sailing, 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 sailing 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 } } } }