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and music history sources, describe the variants the registry aliases name, and distinguish the waltz from the minuet, mazurka, Laendler and other triple-time forms.", "definition": "A dance in triple time in which couples turn while moving around the floor, originating in Austria and southern Germany in the late 18th century, popularised in 19th-century Vienna by composers such as Johann Strauss II, and now a ballroom standard in slow and Viennese forms, with many regional variants including the Peruvian vals criollo, the Chilean vals chiloe, the Colombian charrasquino, the valse creole of the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, the tango waltz or vals of Argentina and the early 20th-century hesitation waltz.", "what_it_is_for": "Social and competitive dance.", "affordances": [ "explain the dance and music", "relay history", "describe regional variants", "distinguish related dances" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Triple time", "Rotating couple", "Viennese heritage", "Many regional forms" ], 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hesitation waltz" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "ballroom dance", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "developed from", "target": "Laendler", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is associated with", "target": "Johann Strauss II", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "mazurka", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "World DanceSport Federation competition rules" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Confusing regional valses with ballroom waltz", "Stereotyped cultural framing", "Registry aliases mixing music and dance" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What the waltz is.", "rationale": "Definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the waltz, and how does it differ from the minuet, mazurka and Laendler?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about dance, music, a regional variant or competition?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "variants", "name": "Variants", "description": "Regional variants.", "findings": [ { "id": "variants-finding", "name": "Variants", "description": "Variants.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the Peruvian waltz, vals chiloe, charrasquino, valse creole, tango waltz and hesitation waltz?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific variant?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "History.", "rationale": "Sources.", "layers": [ { "id": "origins", "name": "Origins", "description": "Origins.", "findings": [ { "id": "origins-finding", "name": "Origins", "description": "Origins.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the waltz emerge and become controversial and then fashionable?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "vienna", "name": "Vienna", "description": "Viennese waltz.", "findings": [ { "id": "vienna-finding", "name": "Vienna", "description": "Vienna.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did Lanner and the Strauss family shape the Viennese waltz?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dance", "name": "Dance", "description": "Technique and competition.", "rationale": "Application.", "layers": [ { "id": "technique", "name": "Technique", "description": "Technique.", "findings": [ { "id": "technique-finding", "name": "Technique", "description": "Technique.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the basic steps, rise and fall and rotation?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits ballroom dance?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competition", "name": "Competition", "description": "Competition.", "findings": [ { "id": "competition-finding", "name": "Competition", "description": "Competition.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are slow and Viennese waltz judged in DanceSport?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits DanceSport?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Music and culture.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "music", "name": "Music", "description": "Waltz music.", "findings": [ { "id": "music-finding", "name": "Music", "description": "Music.", "questions": [ { "text": "How have composers from Chopin to Shostakovich written waltzes?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits waltz (music)?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "latin", "name": "Latin America", "description": "Latin American valses.", "findings": [ { "id": "latin-finding", "name": "Latin America", "description": "Latin America.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did the waltz become part of Peruvian, Chilean, Colombian and Argentine traditions?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Peruvian waltz?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should the Peruvian waltz and valse creole be separate primary entries?", "How should dance history sources be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming regional variants; should they be split off?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "work, medium or creative form", "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 waltz, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the waltz as dance and music, relay history, technique and regional variants from dance and music history sources, describe the variants the registry aliases name, and distinguish the waltz from the minuet, mazurka, Laendler and other triple-time forms.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Peruvian waltz, Hesitation waltz, charrasquiño, tango waltz, Valse créole, vals chilote, musette waltz, Scottish Waltz, Irish waltz, Viennese waltz, Schneeballwalzer.", "11 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 80 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 waltz, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "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": [ "Peruvian waltz", "Hesitation waltz", "charrasquiño", "tango waltz", "Valse créole", "vals chilote", "musette waltz", "Scottish Waltz", "Irish waltz", "Viennese waltz", "Schneeballwalzer" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 80 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 11 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 waltz from another, and a waltz 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 waltz, 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 waltz, 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 waltz 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 waltz, 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 waltz, 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 waltz 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 waltz 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 waltz, 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 waltz, 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 waltz 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 waltz from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a waltz, 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 waltz, 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 waltz 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 waltz 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 waltz between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of 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overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a waltz, 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 waltz, 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 waltz is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a waltz says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that 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waltz is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a waltz and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a waltz, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a waltz, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What 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which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of waltz exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made waltz and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and 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