{ "model": { "rank": 16391, "code": "thing-q1985622", "model_id": "vr.tr.defense", "name": "defense", "purpose": "Let an agent explain defence in the national and homeland sense, relay policy, institutions and history from official and scholarly sources without operational detail, describe historical defence systems, and distinguish this sense from legal, sporting and other senses.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Cross-cutting context", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "XCT", "domain": "XCT.STA", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1985622/", "tier": 2, "score": 32, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "ikoku keigo ban'yaku", "Nagato keigo ban'yaku", "radiological defense", "homeland defense", "national defence", "defense of the Netherlands", "defense of Austria", "Active Defense", "ABC defense" ], "aliasCount": 9, "merged": 9, "knownIn": 32, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, 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history from official and scholarly sources without operational detail, describe historical defence systems, and distinguish this sense from legal, sporting and other senses.", "definition": "The protection of a state, territory or people against attack, in the sense of national defence organised through armed forces, homeland defence against threats within a territory, specialised fields such as radiological defence, and historical systems such as the Kamakura period coastal guard duties known as ikoku keigo banyaku and Nagato keigo banyaku that defended Japan against Mongol invasion, or the defence of the Netherlands in 1940; defence policy, budgets and alliances are central to statecraft, and the word also names legal, sporting and psychological senses.", "what_it_is_for": "Protecting states and peoples from attack.", "affordances": [ "explain the concept", "relay policy and institutions", "describe historical systems", "distinguish other senses" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "State function", "Armed forces and civil defence", "Policy and alliances", "Historical systems" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; ministries, forces and installations.", "visual_identification": [ "Protection of a state against attack", "National defence, homeland defence, radiological defence, historical coastal guard systems, defence of the Netherlands 1940", "Legal defence is a case argument; sporting defence is a team role; psychological defence is a mechanism" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "world military spending", "typical_range": "about 2.4", "unit": "trillion USD", "note": "SIPRI 2023" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "national defence and defence policy", "homeland defence and civil defence", "specialised fields such as radiological and cyber defence", "collective defence through alliances", "historical defence systems such as Kamakura coastal guard duties", "historical campaigns such as the defence of the Netherlands in 1940" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "defense", "why": "in registry terms, the general concept" }, { "relation": "is organised by", "target": "ministry of defence", "why": "in most states" }, { "relation": "is carried out by", "target": "armed forces", "why": "and civil defence" }, { "relation": "is coordinated through", "target": "military alliance", "why": "in collective defence" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "National constitutions and defence laws", "UN Charter on self-defence", "Alliance treaties such as the North Atlantic Treaty", "International humanitarian law" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Agents providing operational or classified detail", "Presenting defence policy debates as settled", "Confusing senses of defence" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What defence is.", "rationale": "Definition.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition and senses.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is national defence, and how does it differ from legal, sporting and psychological senses?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about defence policy in general, a historical system or operational matters the model does not cover?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "components", "name": "Components", "description": "Components.", "findings": [ { "id": "components-finding", "name": "Components", "description": "Components.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are armed forces, homeland and civil defence, and specialised fields such as radiological defence?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific component?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "policy", "name": "Policy", "description": "Policy and institutions.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutions", "description": "Institutions.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutions-finding", "name": "Institutions", "description": "Institutions.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are defence ministries, forces and oversight organised in different states, from official sources?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "debates", "name": "Debates", "description": "Policy debates.", "findings": [ { "id": "debates-finding", "name": "Debates", "description": "Debates.", "questions": [ { "text": "What debates surround defence spending, alliances and strategy, with positions attributed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation neutral?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Historical systems.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "japan", "name": "Japan", "description": "Kamakura coastal guard.", "findings": [ { "id": "japan-finding", "name": "Japan", "description": "Japan.", "questions": [ { "text": "What were the ikoku keigo banyaku and Nagato keigo banyaku duties against the Mongol invasions, as historians describe?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "campaigns", "name": "Campaigns", "description": "Historical campaigns.", "findings": [ { "id": "campaigns-finding", "name": "Campaigns", "description": "Campaigns.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do historians describe the defence of the Netherlands in 1940 and other defensive campaigns?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific campaign?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Law and society.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "law", "name": "Law", "description": "International law.", "findings": [ { "id": "law-finding", "name": "Law", "description": "Law.", "questions": [ { "text": "How does international law frame self-defence and collective defence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits self-defence in international law?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "society", "name": "Society", "description": "Society.", "findings": [ { "id": "society-finding", "name": "Society", "description": "Society.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do conscription, civil-military relations and public attitudes shape defence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits civil-military relations?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should national defence and civil defence be separate primary entries?", "How should official and scholarly sources be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases naming historical Japanese systems and a campaign; 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": "abstract concept", "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 defense, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain defence in the national and homeland sense, relay policy, institutions and history from official and scholarly sources without operational detail, describe historical defence systems, and distinguish this sense from legal, sporting and other senses.", "characteristics": { "substance": "abstract", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: ikoku keigo ban'yaku, Nagato keigo ban'yaku, radiological defense, homeland defense, national defence, defense of the Netherlands, defense of Austria, Active Defense, ABC defense.", "9 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 32 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 defense, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "an abstraction with no physical instance", "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": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. 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": [ "ikoku keigo ban'yaku", "Nagato keigo ban'yaku", "radiological defense", "homeland defense", "national defence", "defense of the Netherlands", "defense of Austria", "Active Defense", "ABC defense" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 32 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 9 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 defense from another, and a defense 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 defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a defense 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 defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense 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 defense?", "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 defense?", "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 defense 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 defense and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a defense, 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 defense, 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 defense 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 defense is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a defense, 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 defense, 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 defense is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 12, "questions": 32 } } } }