{ "model": { "rank": 5438, "code": "thing-q20502", "model_id": "vr.tr.house-music", "name": "house music", "purpose": "Let an agent describe house music and its subgenres with attribution to music history sources, relay characteristics, key artists, labels and scenes, and separate house from neighbouring genres such as techno and disco.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q20502/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Latin house", "Latin tech", "changa tuki", "future funk", "electro urban", "acid house", "tribal house", "phonk house", "popcorn music", "leftfield house", "ambient house", "ballroom", "bass house", "guaracha", "microhouse", "minimal house", "hard house", "speed garage", "progressive house", "jazz house", "festival progressive house", "Chicago hard house", "Chicago house", "g-house", "bubbling house", "jackin' house", "circuit house", "Detroit house", "piano house", "organic house", "vinahouse", "eletrofunk", "melodic house", "gospel house", "dark house", "UK jackin'", "stutter house", "filter house", "French house", "big room house" ], "aliasCount": 100, "merged": 100, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q20502", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20502", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T20:35:42Z", "providers": [ "Claude" ], "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify", "pass": 2, "wave": 3, "engine": "claude" }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q20502", "registryId": "vr.tr.house-music", "name": "house music", "version": "0.2.0-wave.3", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q20502/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.house-music", "name": "house music", "purpose": "Let an agent describe house music and its subgenres with attribution to music history sources, relay characteristics, key artists, labels and scenes, and separate house from neighbouring genres such as techno and disco.", "definition": "A genre of electronic dance music that emerged in Chicago in the early 1980s from disco, characterised by a four-on-the-floor beat at around 120 to 130 beats per minute, drum machines, synthesised basslines and often soulful vocals; it spread through clubs worldwide and branched into many subgenres from acid house to deep, tech and Latin house.", "what_it_is_for": "Dancing and club culture.", "affordances": [ "describe characteristics and production", "explain subgenres and their differences", "relay history and key figures with attribution", "distinguish house from techno, disco and garage" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Four-on-the-floor rhythm", "Chicago origins in the early 1980s", "Many subgenres", "Club and DJ culture" ], "appearance": "Not visible; heard as a steady four-on-the-floor beat with synthesised bass and vocals.", "visual_identification": [ "Four-on-the-floor kick at about 120-130 bpm", "Disco and soul roots, drum machines and synthesisers", "Techno is more mechanical and often faster; disco uses live bands" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "tempo", "typical_range": "about 118-135", "unit": "beats per minute", "note": "by subgenre" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "Chicago and classic house", "acid house", "deep house", "tech house", "progressive and French house", "Latin house and regional variants", "UK garage and related forms" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "electronic dance music", "why": "the wider genre" }, { "relation": "descends from", "target": "disco", "why": "its main root" }, { "relation": "is related to", "target": "techno", "why": "a sibling genre from Detroit" }, { "relation": "includes", "target": "acid house", "why": "a major subgenre" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Copyright and sampling law", "Licensing rules for clubs and events" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Erasing the Black and LGBTQ origins of the genre in accounts", "Misclassifying subgenres", "Sampling without clearance" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sound", "name": "Sound", "description": "What house sounds like.", "rationale": "Characteristics.", "layers": [ { "id": "characteristics", "name": "Characteristics", "description": "Musical features.", "findings": [ { "id": "characteristics-finding", "name": "Characteristics", "description": "Characteristics.", "questions": [ { "text": "What rhythmic, harmonic and production features define house music?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the track house, techno, disco or garage?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "subgenres", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "findings": [ { "id": "subgenres-finding", "name": "Subgenres", "description": "Subgenres.", "questions": [ { "text": "What subgenres exist, and how do they differ?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits the specific subgenre?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "history", "name": "History", "description": "Origins and spread.", "rationale": "Attribution.", "layers": [ { "id": "origins", "name": "Origins", "description": "Chicago origins.", "findings": [ { "id": "origins-finding", "name": "Origins", "description": "Origins.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did house emerge in Chicago clubs, and who were the key figures, with attribution?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Is the presentation faithful to the origins of the genre?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "spread", "name": "Spread", "description": "Global spread.", "findings": [ { "id": "spread-finding", "name": "Spread", "description": "Spread.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did house spread to Europe and worldwide, and how did scenes develop?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "make", "name": "Make", "description": "Production and performance.", "rationale": "Practice.", "layers": [ { "id": "production", "name": "Production", "description": "Production.", "findings": [ { "id": "production-finding", "name": "Production", "description": "Production.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is house produced, with which instruments and techniques?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits music production?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "djing", "name": "DJing", "description": "DJ culture.", "findings": [ { "id": "djing-finding", "name": "DJing", "description": "DJing.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do DJs mix and present house, and how do clubs and festivals feature it?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits DJing?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture and industry.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "culture", "name": "Culture", "description": "Club culture.", "findings": [ { "id": "culture-finding", "name": "Culture", "description": "Culture.", "questions": [ { "text": "What role does house play in club culture and communities?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits club culture?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "industry", "name": "Industry", "description": "Labels and charts.", "findings": [ { "id": "industry-finding", "name": "Industry", "description": "Industry.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which labels, charts and events matter, and how is house music licensed?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits a specific label?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Should each subgenre be a separate entry?", "How should discographies and labels be linked?", "The registry entry has merged aliases for 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 house music, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Let an agent describe house music and its subgenres with attribution to music history sources, relay characteristics, key artists, labels and scenes, and separate house from neighbouring genres such as techno and disco.", "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: Latin house, Latin tech, changa tuki, future funk, electro urban, acid house, tribal house, phonk house, popcorn music, leftfield house, ambient house, ballroom.", "100 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 67 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 house music, 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": [ "Latin house", "Latin tech", "changa tuki", "future funk", "electro urban", "acid house", "tribal house", "phonk house", "popcorn music", "leftfield house", "ambient house", "ballroom" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 67 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 100 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 house music from another, and a house music 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 house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music 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 house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music 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 house music between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a house music 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 house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 house music says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a house music contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a house music, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a house music, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a house music 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 house music and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a house music, 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 house music, 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 may an agent decide or do once access to a house music is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of house music a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For house music, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and 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 house music 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 house music 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 contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to house music, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in house music, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a house music 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 house music and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a house music, 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 house music, 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 house music 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 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