{ "model": { "rank": 5369, "code": "thing-q223266", "model_id": "vr.tr.vassal", "name": "vassal", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a vassal relationship, assess its documented obligations and standing, and determine which actions the relationship permits or requires in its historical context.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q223266/", "tier": 2, "score": 68, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "shukurō", "Ruler of Chiangmai" ], "aliasCount": 2, "merged": 2, "knownIn": 68, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q223266", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223266", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:13:29Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0883a-c152-7fd0-ac17-4ef464ea5c11\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: vassal\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.LIV\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 register", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 62.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a0883a-c149-7b41-9b56-cdbf171844e4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: vassal\nRegistry id: vr.tr.vassal\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext fo" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q223266", "registryId": "vr.tr.vassal", "name": "vassal", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q223266/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.vassal", "name": "vassal", "purpose": "Enable an agent to identify a vassal relationship, assess its documented obligations and standing, and determine which actions the relationship permits or requires in its historical context.", "definition": "A vassal is a person bound to a lord by a relationship of fidelity and service, especially in medieval European societies, with reciprocal obligations of protection and maintenance often supported by a grant of land or rights.", "scope_statement": "This model owns vassal as a historically situated personal role in a relationship with a lord, including its establishment, reciprocal obligations, associated rights and termination; it does not treat vassal as an organism category despite the registry placement PHY / PHY.LIV.", "in_scope": [ "The person holding the vassal role and the lord to whom the relationship applies", "Evidence establishing or disputing a particular vassal relationship", "Service, fidelity, protection and other locally specified obligations", "Fiefs, revenues or rights associated with the relationship, where documented", "Multiple allegiances, succession, breach and termination" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The person's biological classification or complete biography", "Serfdom, slavery and peasant tenancy as separate statuses", "Land parcels and estates independently of their connection to vassalage", "Feudalism as an overarching account of an entire society", "Vassal states and international dependency relationships", "Modern figurative uses meaning a subordinate or compliant follower" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify evidence of a relationship to a particular lord; low rank or political subordination alone does not establish vassalage.", "Distinguish the personal bond from landholding: possession of an estate alone does not establish that its holder is a vassal.", "Distinguish vassal obligations from the obligations of a serf, slave, tenant or paid retainer using the terminology and practices of the relevant setting.", "Record the role for a specified relationship and period; a person may be a vassal in one relationship and a lord in another.", "Separate a source's own designation from a later historian's classification or an agent's inference." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Role bearer", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified person, with uncertainty where identification is disputed", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the vassal role distinct from the person and from similarly named individuals." }, { "name": "Lord counterpart", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified lord for each separately documented relationship", "why_it_matters": "Vassalage must be assessed relative to a counterpart rather than assigned as an unrestricted personal attribute." }, { "name": "Historical and customary setting", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Region, period, jurisdiction and applicable custom, if established", "why_it_matters": "Determines how terms, ceremonies, duties and remedies should be interpreted." }, { "name": "Attestation basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Contemporary explicit designation; contemporary indirect evidence; later scholarly attribution; disputed attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates recorded status from interpretive classification." }, { "name": "Relationship standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed; attested active; contested; ended; unknown, each tied to a date or interval", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a relationship attested at one time from being assumed to persist indefinitely." }, { "name": "Associated holding or benefit", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented fief, revenue, office or other benefit; explicitly absent; not established", "why_it_matters": "Connects benefits to the bond without assuming that every vassal relationship involved land." }, { "name": "Obligation terms", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-specific service, attendance, payment, fidelity or reciprocal duties, including conditions and exceptions", "why_it_matters": "Makes obligations assessable without importing a universal package of feudal duties." }, { "name": "Quantified service", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Days per specified period, persons supplied or payment in the source's currency, only where documented", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison of required and performed service while preserving historical units." }, { "name": "Concurrent allegiance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Other documented lords, with any priority clauses or reservations", "why_it_matters": "Exposes conflicts that cannot be resolved by assuming exclusive loyalty." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a proposed vassal relationship against contextual evidence and mark unresolved attribution.", "Reconstruct the bond's parties, establishment and period of attestation.", "Compare a documented demand with the applicable service terms and exceptions.", "Trace holdings or benefits explicitly connected to the relationship.", "Identify conflicting allegiances and locate any documented priority rule.", "Assess a reported breach, succession or release against the relevant procedure and evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "vassal-role-and-attestation", "name": "Vassal role and attestation", "description": "Establishes which personal relationship is being described as vassalage and on what evidence.", "rationale": "The registry placement and the broad use of the word could otherwise confuse a historical social role with an organism or generic subordinate.", "layers": [ { "id": "parties-and-role-boundary", "name": "Parties and role boundary", "description": "Identifies the role bearer and lord while separating neighbouring forms of dependence.", "findings": [ { "id": "relationship-specific-identification", "name": "Relationship-specific identification", "description": "Record vassal status for an identified person in relation to a specified lord and period.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who is identified as the vassal, and who is the lord in this particular relationship?", "kind": "definition", "id": "relationship-specific-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What distinguishes this bond from tenancy, serfdom, paid service or ordinary political allegiance in this setting?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "relationship-specific-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "terminology-and-evidence", "name": "Terminology and evidence", "description": "Preserves the source vocabulary and the basis for translating or interpreting it as vassalage.", "findings": [ { "id": "attribution-basis", "name": "Attribution basis", "description": "Distinguish explicit contemporary designation from indirect evidence and later analytical classification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source supports the designation, and what word or formula does it actually use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attribution-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Is the label vassal explicit in the evidence, a translation, or a disputed scholarly interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attribution-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "establishment-and-recognition", "name": "Establishment and recognition", "description": "Records how the bond was created or acknowledged under the relevant practice.", "rationale": "A ceremony, oath or written instrument must be interpreted locally rather than treated as a universal test of vassalage.", "layers": [ { "id": "acts-establishing-the-bond", "name": "Acts establishing the bond", "description": "Examines documented homage, fidelity commitments and other acts connected to establishment.", "findings": [ { "id": "constitutive-acts", "name": "Constitutive acts", "description": "Identify which acts were understood to establish the relationship and which merely recorded or renewed it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What act, oath, agreement or acknowledgement is documented as establishing this bond?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constitutive-acts-q01" }, { "text": "Did that act create the relationship, renew an existing one or only provide evidence of it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "constitutive-acts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-dating", "name": "Recognition and dating", "description": "Separates claimed commencement from the dates and authorities actually attesting recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-duration", "name": "Attested duration", "description": "Bound the relationship's chronology using available evidence without inventing continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the earliest and latest dated attestations, and how do they differ from any claimed start or end dates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attested-duration-q01" }, { "text": "Whose acknowledgement or decision supports recognition of the bond, and is that recognition contested?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-duration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "fiefs-and-associated-rights", "name": "Fiefs and associated rights", "description": "Connects the personal relationship to any documented holding, benefit and conditions of enjoyment.", "rationale": "The model must relate vassalage to tenure without equating the two or presuming a land grant.", "layers": [ { "id": "benefit-linkage", "name": "Benefit linkage", "description": "Identifies what, if anything, the vassal receives or holds in connection with this bond.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-benefit-connection", "name": "Documented benefit connection", "description": "Require evidence linking a fief, revenue, office or other benefit to the particular relationship.", "questions": [ { "text": "What holding or benefit is explicitly connected to this vassal relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-benefit-connection-q01" }, { "text": "Is the absence of an associated benefit established, or is the evidence merely silent?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-benefit-connection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights-and-tenure-conditions", "name": "Rights and tenure conditions", "description": "Records the extent and limits of rights associated with the benefit.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-enjoyment", "name": "Conditional enjoyment", "description": "Separate possession, income, jurisdiction and transfer rights rather than treating a fief as unrestricted ownership.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which rights over the associated holding or benefit are actually documented?", "kind": "definition", "id": "conditional-enjoyment-q01" }, { "text": "What consent or conditions govern its transfer, inheritance or grant to another holder?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-enjoyment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "reciprocal-obligations-and-allegiance", "name": "Reciprocal obligations and allegiance", "description": "Captures the duties attributed to both parties and the effects of concurrent bonds.", "rationale": "Assessing a vassal's conduct requires actual terms, triggers and exceptions, including the lord's obligations.", "layers": [ { "id": "duties-and-performance", "name": "Duties and performance", "description": "Relates each documented duty to its bearer, trigger, extent and evidence of fulfilment.", "findings": [ { "id": "obligation-assessment", "name": "Obligation assessment", "description": "Record duties on each side and distinguish what was required from what was demanded or performed.", "questions": [ { "text": "What service or fidelity duties bind the vassal, and what protection, maintenance or other duties bind the lord?", "kind": "definition", "id": "obligation-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "For the demand being assessed, what trigger, quantity, duration and exception are documented, and what performance is evidenced?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "obligation-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "multiple-lords-and-priority", "name": "Multiple lords and priority", "description": "Examines overlapping relationships and any contextual rules for incompatible demands.", "findings": [ { "id": "conflicting-allegiances", "name": "Conflicting allegiances", "description": "Preserve separate bonds and apply priority only where the evidence establishes it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which concurrent vassal relationships are attested for this person during the relevant period?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conflicting-allegiances-q01" }, { "text": "What documented reservation, priority clause or locally defined liege relationship governs conflicting demands?", "kind": "action", "id": "conflicting-allegiances-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "dispute-succession-and-termination", "name": "Dispute, succession and termination", "description": "Tracks challenges and transitions affecting the bond and its associated rights.", "rationale": "Alleged disloyalty, death or loss of a holding cannot automatically be treated as a settled end to every aspect of the relationship.", "layers": [ { "id": "breach-and-remedy", "name": "Breach and remedy", "description": "Distinguishes accusations from determinations and records the process used to impose a consequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "contested-nonperformance", "name": "Contested nonperformance", "description": "Tie an alleged breach to a specific duty, supporting evidence and any competent decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which obligation was allegedly breached, by which party, and what evidence supports or contradicts the allegation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "contested-nonperformance-q01" }, { "text": "Who could determine the dispute, and what remedy or sanction was available under the applicable practice?", "kind": "action", "id": "contested-nonperformance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "succession-and-ending", "name": "Succession and ending", "description": "Separates changes in personal allegiance from succession to associated holdings or benefits.", "findings": [ { "id": "transition-effects", "name": "Transition effects", "description": "Assess death, replacement of a lord, release or other terminating events separately for the bond and its associated rights.", "questions": [ { "text": "What event ended or changed the relationship, and what evidence establishes its effective date?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "transition-effects-q01" }, { "text": "Did a successor need fresh homage, acknowledgement or another act, and which associated rights continued or ceased?", "kind": "action", "id": "transition-effects-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 ordinary historical sense is a social role, not an organism category; the PHY.LIV assignment and absent sense should be reviewed.", "This account is recalled knowledge, with no sources consulted or identifiers verified.", "A publication should specify place and period before asserting particular ceremonies, service requirements, inheritance rules or penalties." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of vassal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Liege vassal", "Subvassal" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of vassal 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": [ "Organising obligations of military service, counsel and assistance between lords and their vassals.", "Supporting relationships of lordship through grants of land, revenues or other rights.", "Describing personal political dependencies in historical research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of vassal 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": [ "Allegiance to multiple lords could create conflicting service obligations.", "Breach of obligations could lead to disputes, forfeiture or armed conflict.", "Treating vassalage as a uniform European system obscures differences across places and periods.", "Conflating vassals with serfs confuses personal allegiance with dependent peasant status." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of vassal 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": [ "The relationship between vassalage, landholding and military service varied across medieval Europe and over time.", "Liege homage could distinguish a privileged allegiance among obligations to multiple lords, but its effects depended on local practice.", "Applying the term to societies outside Europe requires checking whether their institutions support the comparison." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of vassal 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": "lord", "difference": "The lord receives the vassal's fidelity and service and owes reciprocal obligations; one person could be a lord in one relationship and a vassal in another." }, { "name": "serf", "difference": "Serfdom concerns dependent peasant status and associated obligations; vassalage concerns a relationship of fidelity and service to a lord." }, { "name": "knight", "difference": "A knight holds a martial or social status; being a vassal identifies a relationship, and the categories do not necessarily coincide." }, { "name": "fief", "difference": "A fief is land, income or rights held under particular conditions; a vassal is the person in the relationship." }, { "name": "vassal state", "difference": "A vassal state is a subordinate polity; the sense described here concerns a person." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of vassal this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend the historical personal role, or another sense, and should PHY / PHY.LIV be corrected to a social-role classification?", "Which regions and periods should provide the model's initial evidence base without imposing one local pattern on all vassal relationships?", "Which primary terms can defensibly be mapped to vassal, and where do translation or historiographical disputes require separate treatment?", "How should the model distinguish relationships without an associated fief from cases where the surviving evidence does not identify one?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept or its defining relationship, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 vassal, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an agent to identify a vassal relationship, assess its documented obligations and standing, and determine which actions the relationship permits or requires in its historical context.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: shukurō, Ruler of Chiangmai.", "2 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 68 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 vassal, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "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": [ "shukurō", "Ruler of Chiangmai" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 68 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 2 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 vassal from another, and a vassal 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 vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal 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 vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal 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 vassal 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 vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal 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 vassal from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a vassal is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a vassal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a vassal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a vassal and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a vassal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a vassal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a vassal is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a vassal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a vassal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a vassal is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a vassal is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a vassal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a vassal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a vassal moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a vassal, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a vassal, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a vassal 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 vassal 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 vassal between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal 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 vassal, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a vassal 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 vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What vassal is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of vassal, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate vassal from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish vassal from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What vassal does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does vassal pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of vassal judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where vassal lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of vassal, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does vassal hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a vassal 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 vassal and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal 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 vassal is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a vassal, 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 vassal, 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 vassal is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }