{ "model": { "rank": 3759, "code": "thing-q216452", "model_id": "vr.tr.night-of-power", "name": "Night of Power", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Night of Power observances, record their tradition-specific meaning and timing, and support participation without claiming certainty about the sacred night's identification.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Activities and processes", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "ACT", "domain": "ACT.ACT", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q216452/", "tier": 2, "score": 82, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 82, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q216452", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216452", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:05:23Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07c65-cda2-7120-bb85-542cc2d20f74\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Night of Power\nRegistry id: vr.tr.night-of-power\nPlane / domain: ACT / ACT.ACT\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (no" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q216452", "registryId": "vr.tr.night-of-power", "name": "Night of Power", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q216452/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.night-of-power", "name": "Night of Power", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Night of Power observances, record their tradition-specific meaning and timing, and support participation without claiming certainty about the sacred night's identification.", "definition": "The Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr) is a sacred night in Ramadan that Islamic tradition associates with the revelation of the Qur'an and observes through worship, with its precise date understood differently across traditions.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vr.tr.night-of-power in ACT / ACT.ACT: Laylat al-Qadr as an Islamic sacred night and recurring occasion for devotional action, including attributed interpretations, candidate dates and situated observances.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of Night of Power with Laylat al-Qadr and its translated names", "Attributed understandings of revelation, decree and the night's religious significance", "Tradition-specific candidate nights and community calendar decisions", "Devotional activities explicitly undertaken to seek or observe Laylat al-Qadr", "Distinction between scheduled observances, reported experiences and claims that the sacred night has been identified" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Ramadan fasting rules and the month as a whole", "The Quran as a text, including its complete transmission history", "General Islamic prayer, supplication and retreat procedures", "Mosque administration and general event management", "Other sacred nights and festivals, including Eid and the Night Journey" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is explicitly identified as Laylat al-Qadr; the English word 'power' alone does not establish identity.", "Its scriptural identity is associated with the sending down of revelation and exceptional sacred value in Quran 97. [Surah Al-Qadr](https://quran.com/al-qadr/1-5)", "A gathering qualifies as a Night of Power observance through its stated devotional purpose, rather than merely taking place during Ramadan.", "An advertised date identifies a community's observance or preferred candidate; it does not independently establish when Laylat al-Qadr occurs.", "The model distinguishes the sacred occasion from the prayers, recitations and gatherings undertaken in relation to it." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Referent level", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "sacred occasion; annual candidate night; organised observance; personal devotional observance", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a local gathering or proposed date from being treated as the sacred occasion itself." }, { "name": "Interpretive affiliation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named tradition, scholar, institution or participant account", "why_it_matters": "Keeps meanings and recommendations attached to the people or authorities who hold them." }, { "name": "Candidate-night designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Ramadan night number or candidate set, with source and counting convention", "why_it_matters": "Supports multiple supported date positions without imposing a universal date." }, { "name": "Calendar basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Hijri year, locality, Ramadan-start authority, calendar method and time zone", "why_it_matters": "Makes a civil-date conversion interpretable and revisable." }, { "name": "Local observance interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end timestamps with time zone; duration in minutes", "why_it_matters": "Enables scheduling while distinguishing programme hours from the religious night's boundaries." }, { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "candidate; locally designated observance; retrospectively claimed; disputed; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Prevents practical scheduling choices from becoming assertions of religious certainty." }, { "name": "Devotional programme", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attributed selection of prayer, Quran recitation, supplication or other specified practices", "why_it_matters": "Allows observances to differ without presenting one programme as compulsory for everyone." }, { "name": "Observance progress", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed; scheduled; underway; completed; cancelled", "why_it_matters": "Records actionable event status without claiming to measure spiritual acceptance or reward." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve Night of Power names to the registered Laylat al-Qadr referent while preserving translation differences.", "Compare attributed candidate-night positions and explain their consequences for an observance schedule.", "Calculate provisional local calendar intervals from an explicitly selected calendar authority.", "Prepare reminders and devotional programme options using the participant's stated tradition and preferences.", "Record completed observances and reported experiences separately from claims about spiritual outcomes." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "sacred-identity-and-meaning", "name": "Sacred identity and meaning", "description": "Establishes which occasion is meant and how its significance is understood.", "rationale": "The missing registry definition requires explicit identification, while differences in interpretation must remain visible.", "layers": [ { "id": "names-and-referent", "name": "Names and referent", "description": "Connects the registered English name to the intended Islamic occasion.", "findings": [ { "id": "laylat-al-qadr-identification", "name": "Laylat al-Qadr identification", "description": "Record Laylat al-Qadr as the intended referent and retain the source of translated labels such as Power or Decree.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this use of Night of Power explicitly refer to Laylat al-Qadr?", "kind": "definition", "id": "laylat-al-qadr-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Which translation or community supplies the label, and what meaning does it attach to qadr?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "laylat-al-qadr-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "scriptural-significance", "name": "Scriptural significance", "description": "Separates textual statements from explanations supplied by interpreters.", "findings": [ { "id": "revelation-and-sacred-value", "name": "Revelation and sacred value", "description": "Quran 97 associates the night with revelation, exceptional value, angelic descent and peace until dawn; record these as scriptural claims and attribute further interpretation. [Surah Al-Qadr](https://quran.com/al-qadr/1-5)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which passage and interpretation support the stated connection to revelation or decree?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "revelation-and-sacred-value-q01" }, { "text": "Does the account distinguish religious valuation from a measurable duration or guaranteed reward calculation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "revelation-and-sacred-value-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "candidate-nights-and-calendar", "name": "Candidate nights and calendar", "description": "Represents uncertainty about identification alongside the concrete dates needed for action.", "rationale": "An agent must support scheduling without turning a preferred candidate into an uncontested date.", "layers": [ { "id": "tradition-specific-candidates", "name": "Tradition-specific candidates", "description": "Preserves distinct source-backed approaches to seeking the night.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-set-attribution", "name": "Candidate set attribution", "description": "Store candidate sets with their authority. For example, the cited Shia devotional guide identifies the 19th, 21st and 23rd nights as candidates; this position must not become a universal calendar rule. [Supplications for the Month of Ramadhan](https://al-islam.org/supplications-month-ramadhan/laylatul-qadr-night-power)", "questions": [ { "text": "Which nights does the selected authority recommend observing, and does it rank any as more likely?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-set-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Is the recorded date a candidate, a customary communal observance or a claim of definitive identification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "candidate-set-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "local-night-resolution", "name": "Local night resolution", "description": "Maps religious night designations to usable local intervals.", "findings": [ { "id": "calendar-and-boundary-basis", "name": "Calendar and boundary basis", "description": "Record the selected Ramadan calendar, night-number convention and local boundary method before deriving civil dates.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Ramadan-start decision and night-number convention determine this candidate's civil evening?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "calendar-and-boundary-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Which local sunset and dawn times, or accepted alternative convention, bound the observance night?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "calendar-and-boundary-basis-q02" }, { "text": "Which reminders require revision if the community changes its Ramadan-start decision?", "kind": "action", "id": "calendar-and-boundary-basis-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "devotional-intent-and-practice", "name": "Devotional intent and practice", "description": "Connects actions to the explicit intention of seeking or observing Laylat al-Qadr.", "rationale": "The ACT model must recognise purposeful observance and represent actionable practices without prescribing a universal rite.", "layers": [ { "id": "observance-intent", "name": "Observance intent", "description": "Distinguishes an intentional Laylat al-Qadr observance from coincident Ramadan activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "seeking-the-night", "name": "Seeking the night", "description": "Record whether a person or programme explicitly intends to seek Laylat al-Qadr, including observance across several candidate nights.", "questions": [ { "text": "What stated intention connects this activity to Laylat al-Qadr?", "kind": "definition", "id": "seeking-the-night-q01" }, { "text": "Does the plan cover one locally preferred night or a series of candidate nights?", "kind": "action", "id": "seeking-the-night-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attributed-practice-selection", "name": "Attributed practice selection", "description": "Keeps devotional content tied to an identified source and participant context.", "findings": [ { "id": "programme-and-recommendation-status", "name": "Programme and recommendation status", "description": "For each proposed prayer, recitation or supplication, distinguish its source's recommendation from organiser custom and participant preference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority supports this practice specifically for Laylat al-Qadr, and how does that authority classify it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "programme-and-recommendation-status-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of the programme may the participant select or adapt under their chosen guidance?", "kind": "action", "id": "programme-and-recommendation-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "situated-observance-and-coordination", "name": "Situated observance and coordination", "description": "Represents a concrete occasion of participation within a candidate sacred night.", "rationale": "An annual sacred occasion can have many independent observances with different locations, hours and participation arrangements.", "layers": [ { "id": "observance-instance", "name": "Observance instance", "description": "Identifies a personal or communal observance without equating it with the sacred night.", "findings": [ { "id": "annual-and-local-linkage", "name": "Annual and local linkage", "description": "Link each observance to its Hijri year, candidate-night designation, locality and organising or participating party.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which annual candidate night does this observance intend to honour?", "kind": "definition", "id": "annual-and-local-linkage-q01" }, { "text": "Are two records duplicate announcements of one gathering or separate observances of the same candidate night?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "annual-and-local-linkage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "participation-window", "name": "Participation window", "description": "Supports attendance within actual programme hours and available arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "programme-hours-and-access", "name": "Programme hours and access", "description": "Record whether participation is private, communal or remote, with verified programme hours; a gathering may occupy only part of the night.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the confirmed programme hours, and how do they relate to the selected night's boundaries?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "programme-hours-and-access-q01" }, { "text": "What attendance or access arrangements must be known before offering a participation plan?", "kind": "action", "id": "programme-hours-and-access-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-identification-limits", "name": "Evidence and identification limits", "description": "Controls how textual authority, reported signs and personal experiences support claims.", "rationale": "The model needs explicit limits on what an agent can infer about identification, acceptance and spiritual effects.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-authority", "name": "Claim authority", "description": "Preserves the evidential path behind consequential religious assertions.", "findings": [ { "id": "source-and-interpretation-chain", "name": "Source and interpretation chain", "description": "Distinguish scripture, transmitted reports, scholarly interpretation and local announcements rather than treating them as interchangeable authorities.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exact source supports this assertion, and whose interpretation connects that source to the assertion?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "source-and-interpretation-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Does a disagreement concern the source's authority, its interpretation or its application to this year?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "source-and-interpretation-chain-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reported-signs-and-outcomes", "name": "Reported signs and outcomes", "description": "Separates observable or reported events from religious conclusions drawn from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "experience-does-not-certify-identification", "name": "Experience does not certify identification", "description": "Record dreams, feelings or environmental observations as attributed reports; neither those reports nor logged worship duration independently establish sacred identification or acceptance.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was directly observed or reported, and what additional conclusion did the claimant draw?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "experience-does-not-certify-identification-q01" }, { "text": "How should the agent preserve the account without presenting identification, forgiveness or acceptance as verified?", "kind": "action", "id": "experience-does-not-certify-identification-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The intended sense is inferred to be the Islamic Laylat al-Qadr; no registry sense was supplied.", "Accounts differ in how they explain the revelation associated with this night, including distinctions between an initial revelation and a descent of the Qur'an.", "Exact dates and devotional details should be checked against the particular Islamic tradition being described; this account is recalled knowledge, not source-verified research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Night of Power this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The Qur'an, surah 97 (al-Qadr), describes the night as better than a thousand months.", "Prophetic traditions recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim encourage seeking the night during the last ten nights of Ramadan, especially the odd-numbered nights." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Night of Power this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Observed through voluntary night prayers, Qur'an recitation, supplication and seeking forgiveness.", "A focus of intensified worship during i'tikaf, a devotional retreat commonly undertaken in the final ten days of Ramadan.", "Marked by communal mosque gatherings and, in some communities, extended overnight services." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Night of Power 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": [ "Presenting the 27th night of Ramadan as a universally established date.", "Treating the Qur'anic comparison with a thousand months as a physical measurement of the night's duration.", "Conflating the night with the separate commemoration of Muhammad's night journey and ascension." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Night of Power 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 lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Many Sunni communities give particular prominence to the 27th night while also observing other nights in the final ten.", "Twelver Shi'i observance particularly emphasizes the 19th, 21st and 23rd nights, with special prominence often given to the 23rd.", "Corresponding civil-calendar dates can differ between communities because of differences in determining the start of Ramadan." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Night of Power this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Ramadan", "difference": "Ramadan is the entire lunar month; the Night of Power is a sacred night within it." }, { "name": "I'tikaf", "difference": "I'tikaf is a devotional retreat that may encompass the night; it is a practice rather than the sacred occasion itself." }, { "name": "Isra and Mi'raj", "difference": "These concern Muhammad's night journey and ascension, rather than the revelation associated with the Night of Power." }, { "name": "Surah al-Qadr", "difference": "This is chapter 97 of the Qur'an, which describes the night, rather than the night itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Night of Power this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which source-backed candidate-night positions and counting conventions must be represented across the communities this registry will serve?", "How do relevant interpreters distinguish the night's association with revelation, decree and recurring annual observance?", "Which authorities and conventions should govern local night boundaries in places without ordinary sunset or dawn?", "Which Laylat al-Qadr-specific practices have disputed attribution or recommendation status within the intended user communities?", "How should conflicting retrospective identification claims be displayed when communities disagree about both calendar dates and reported signs?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 27 } }, "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 Night of Power, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise Night of Power observances, record their tradition-specific meaning and timing, and support participation without claiming certainty about the sacred night's identification.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 82 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 Night of Power, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "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": [], "standing": "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one Night of Power from another, and a Night of Power 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power, how often and by whom.", "findings": 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"process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a Night of Power 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power and what marks it done.", "questions": [ { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a Night of Power 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power, 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. 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is Night of Power 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 Night of Power 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 Night of Power?", "kind": "boundary" }, { 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"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 Night of Power 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 } } } }