grand master
Enable an agent to identify the Masonic office of grand master in a specified grand lodge, assess a holder's documented standing, and determine which claims or actions the office supports.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
5 bundles · 9 layers · 15 findings · 24 questions
Designation and tradition Establish what grand master denotes in the particular case.
Meaning and original name
Resolve the designation through its original wording and social context.
Tradition-specific sense
Record the intended meaning as an evidenced interpretation, keeping unresolved alternatives explicit.
- In which discipline, order, or community is this person or position called grand master? definition
- What original-language designation and authoritative description support this interpretation? provenance
Title, rank, or office
Separate recognised attainment from responsibility for governing a body.
Designation function
Determine what the designation establishes without inferring powers from its prestige.
- Does grand master certify attainment, mark a rank, confer a governing office, or serve an honorary purpose here? definition
- Which feature distinguishes it from master, an ordinary member, an instructor, or another senior office in this tradition? boundary
Attainment and conferral Capture how the designation is acquired and who can confer it.
Eligibility and selection
Identify the applicable route and its prerequisites.
Qualifying route
Record the requirements for this particular grand master designation without importing rules from another tradition.
- Which achievements, assessments, prior ranks, membership conditions, or selection procedures are required? definition
- Which version of the rules applied when this holder qualified or was selected? provenance
Authorised conferral
Connect an award or appointment to an empowered conferring body.
Conferral evidence
Distinguish meeting prerequisites from formally receiving the designation.
- Who had authority to confer this grand master title, rank, or office? provenance
- What award record, register entry, appointment instrument, or equivalent evidence establishes conferral and its effective date? provenance
Recognition and holder standing Track who holds the designation, where it is recognised, and whether it remains effective.
Recognition boundaries
Specify which bodies accept a holder's designation and on what basis.
Recognised holder claim
Treat recognition as a relationship among a holder, designation, and recognising body.
- Which named bodies recognise this holder as grand master, and what records show that recognition? provenance
- Is recognition accepted elsewhere through an explicit equivalence rule, or merely assumed from the shared title? boundary
Duration and status changes
Distinguish continued title holding from current exercise of an office.
Current and historical standing
Record effective intervals and changes under the relevant rules, including unresolved disputes.
- Is the designation permanent, term-limited, conditional, or otherwise bounded, and what dates are documented? measurement
- What events end or alter recognition, and may a former holder retain the title after leaving office? definition
- How should conflicting claims to current grand master standing be represented pending resolution? action
Powers, duties, and use Determine what holding the designation permits or requires.
Permitted acts and limits
Tie each claimed power or privilege to a specific rule.
Designation-based authority
Establish whether the designation supports a proposed act and identify additional permissions where needed.
- Does this designation authorise governance, representation, certification, instruction, participation, or only use of the title? action
- Which proposed acts require a separate appointment, credential, licence, or consent despite grand master standing? boundary
Obligations and accountability
Capture duties and oversight that attach specifically to grand master standing.
Holder obligations
Record applicable responsibilities and review mechanisms while allowing that an attainment title may carry no governing duties.
- What conduct, service, reporting, or ceremonial obligations attach specifically to this designation? definition
- Which body can review alleged misuse, breach of duty, or an invalid claim, and what process is documented? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Kinds and varieties
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of grand master this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Belgium, Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France
What it is Filled
A grand master is the presiding Masonic office in a grand lodge, with authority, duties, selection and tenure defined by that body's constitution and traditions.
In scope
- The meaning and governing role of the office within a specified Masonic grand lodge are within scope.
- The Masonic body that confers and recognises the office is within scope.
- Eligibility, appointment or election, and succession requirements are within scope.
- The relationship between a holder and the office in a particular grand lodge is within scope.
- Powers, privileges, obligations and limits attached to the office are within scope.
- Current standing, tenure, removal and disputed recognition are within scope.
Out of scope
- The holder's complete biography and personal identity are outside scope.
- The grand lodge's complete institutional model is outside scope.
- Complete Masonic rules, rituals and traditions are outside scope.
- Individual elections and appointment ceremonies as events are outside scope.
- Employment contracts and job advertisements for associated work are outside scope.
- Grand master titles in games, chivalric orders, religious orders and other non-Masonic contexts are outside scope.
- Other Masonic offices and ranks are outside scope except where needed to establish boundaries.
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to identify the Masonic office of grand master in a specified grand lodge, assess a holder's documented standing, and determine which claims or actions the office supports.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A claim to the office must identify the relevant Masonic grand lodge and its basis for recognising the holder.
- The designation identifies a governing office rather than an achievement title or a universal rank across all Freemasonry.
- A holder is a person occupying the office, and successive officeholders must remain distinguishable.
- Formal officeholding must be distinguishable from honorary, past, promotional or self-assigned use of the title.
- Recognition by one grand lodge does not establish recognition or governing authority in another.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Claim that a person holds the office without evidence from the relevant grand lodge.
- Impersonate a grand master or grand lodge in correspondence or online.
- Spread conspiracy claims about Freemasonry or its officeholders.
- Disclose private Masonic membership details.
Only with a human decision
- Recognising or disputing a claim to the office requires human judgment.
May
- Describe the office in a named Masonic grand lodge using its constitution or identifiable historical sources.
- Record officeholders from the relevant grand lodge's published lists.
Moral aspects Filled
- Masonic membership can expose people to suspicion or discrimination.
- Honest descriptions of officeholding and recognition protect people from fraudulent claims.
Who is affected
- Masonic members are affected.
- Masonic officeholders are affected.
- People targeted by fraudulent claims to Masonic office are affected.
Owners Filled
Steward
The Masonic grand lodge whose constitution defines the office.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1162163 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.grand-master
- Wikidata: Q1940122 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1940122)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Designation sense: Achievement title; proficiency rank; governing office; honorary designation; unresolved
- Recognising tradition and authority: Links to the discipline, order, organisation, or community and its recognising body
- Conferral route: Documented attainment; examination; election; appointment; honorary conferral; other documented route; unknown
- Holder standing: Claimed; verified under named rules; disputed; former; withdrawn; unknown, with an as-of date
- Validity interval: Effective dates and duration in calendar units; indefinite or unknown where documented
- Authority and privilege scope: Links to permitted acts, represented bodies, affected members, and applicable restrictions
- Recognition portability: Recognised only by issuer; recognised by named additional bodies; contested; unknown
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
The office is an institutional status that cannot be established by appearance, clothing or regalia alone.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Disambiguate a grand master claim using its tradition, issuer, and original designation.
- Check a holder's claimed designation against documented conferral and recognition evidence.
- Assess eligibility or succession against the applicable grand master rules.
- Determine whether a proposed act follows from governing authority, a specific privilege, or neither.
- Compare similarly named designations while retaining differences in recognition and requirements.
- Record changes and disputes in standing without erasing historical recognition.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- False claims to Masonic office can facilitate impersonation or fraud.
- Disputed succession or recognition can produce institutional and property disputes.
Standards and interfaces not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
The office is governed by the particular grand lodge's constitution, and no single external standard or regulation applies universally.
Context of use required Filled
- In Freemasonry, a grand master holds the senior governing office of a particular grand lodge under its constitution.
- The title is encountered in institutional records, formal communications and ceremonies where authority must be interpreted within that Masonic jurisdiction.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1940122: Grand Master - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Grand Master (Freemasonry) - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does vr.tr.grand-master denote a specific game title, a proficiency rank, leadership of an order, or a broader designation covering several traditions?
- What original registry source or identifier can settle the intended sense without splitting the registered thing?
- Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this designation or its intended concept?
- Which primary rules and holder registers establish conferral, recognition, duration, and withdrawal for the intended tradition?
- Which privileges or duties attach to grand master standing itself, and which depend on a separate office or credential?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1940122/spec.json