{ "model": { "rank": 5491, "code": "thing-q223685", "model_id": "vr.tr.steampunk", "name": "steampunk", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise, describe and assess steampunk expressions and propose coherent adaptations while making uncertain classifications explicit.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q223685/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "steampunk video game", "steampunk anime and manga", "steampunk comics" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.steampunk", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q223685", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q223685", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:28:50Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 17.4, "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: 01a08848-bebf-70b1-8bb5-e95cdba93586\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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design.", "scope_statement": "This model owns steampunk as a speculative genre and aesthetic across media, centred on imagined relationships between historical industrial cultures and alternative technologies; individual works, objects and communities are related instances rather than the genre itself.", "in_scope": [ "Criteria and evidence for identifying steampunk expressions", "Historical references, imagined industrial technologies and departures from history", "Steampunk visual, material and narrative conventions", "Translation of steampunk conventions across fiction, illustration, costume, objects and interactive media", "Interpretations of labour, empire, class and technological progress within steampunk" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete descriptions, editions and rights records of individual creative works", "Engineering certification and operational safety of physical steam machinery", "Historical industrial societies independently of their creative reinterpretation", "Cyberpunk, dieselpunk and other neighbouring genres except at classification boundaries", "Administration and membership of steampunk communities or events" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Look for historical industrial references combined with speculative invention or deliberate technological reimagining; historical steam machinery alone does not establish steampunk.", "Check whether machinery, power systems or industrial design help organise the imagined world or aesthetic; isolated brass gears are weak evidence by themselves.", "Distinguish deliberate departures from history from an attempt to reconstruct a documented historical setting accurately.", "Compare the expression's dominant technological imagery and historical references with neighbouring retrofuturist forms, allowing hybrid classifications.", "Assess fiction and non-narrative expressions separately: a costume or illustration can present steampunk conventions without supplying an alternate-history plot." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Expression mode", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "literary; audiovisual; illustration; game; costume; designed object; environment; mixed", "why_it_matters": "Determines which evidence can reasonably support identification and which conventions an adaptation must preserve." }, { "name": "Historical reference frame", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Referenced periods, places and industrial cultures, with supporting evidence or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes the historical borrowing explicit without assuming every expression depicts Victorian Britain." }, { "name": "Technological repertoire", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Multiple supported values such as steam power, clockwork, pneumatic systems, mechanical computation, speculative electricity or unspecified machinery", "why_it_matters": "Records the technological combination that supports the classification rather than treating steam as a sufficient test." }, { "name": "Role of 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"Separates self-description, marketing and external interpretation." }, { "name": "Treatment of industrial society", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "critical; celebratory; ambivalent; backgrounded; multiple readings; undetermined", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation while requiring evidence before attributing a political position." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess a candidate expression against steampunk conventions and explain supporting and conflicting evidence.", "Compare steampunk with adjacent retrofuturist classifications and record justified hybrids.", "Propose steampunk adaptations using an explicit historical reference frame and technological vocabulary.", "Check whether imagined machinery, infrastructure and social consequences remain consistent within a work.", "Identify when decorative motifs provide too little evidence for a confident genre assignment.", "Surface interpretive disputes and research gaps before generating descriptions or recommendations." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "genre-recognition", "name": "Genre recognition", "description": "Establishes what supports a steampunk classification and where its boundaries remain uncertain.", "rationale": "The absence of a registry definition requires explicit identification criteria that accommodate both genre and aesthetic uses.", "layers": [ { "id": "classification-evidence", "name": "Classification evidence", "description": "Separates observed conventions from attributed labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-steampunk-attribution", "name": "Supported steampunk attribution", "description": "Record who applies the label and which historical-industrial and speculative features support it.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observable combination of historical industrial references and speculative invention supports calling this expression steampunk?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-steampunk-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Who uses the steampunk label 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"speculative-departure", "name": "Speculative departure", "description": "Describes the relationship between historical borrowing and imagined possibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "departure-from-history", "name": "Departure from history", "description": "Record invented technologies, institutions or events without imposing an alternate-history explanation on purely aesthetic expressions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which technologies or social arrangements deliberately depart from the referenced history?", "kind": "definition", "id": "departure-from-history-q01" }, { "text": "Is a historical divergence actually stated, or would assigning one exceed the available evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "departure-from-history-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "imagined-industrial-systems", "name": "Imagined industrial systems", "description": "Examines machinery, energy and the consequences of speculative industrial arrangements.", "rationale": "Mechanical imagery becomes more informative when its role in the expression is distinguished from its appearance.", "layers": [ { "id": "machinery-and-power", "name": "Machinery and power", "description": "Identifies technological motifs and their claimed operation.", "findings": [ { "id": "technological-role-and-logic", "name": "Technological role and logic", "description": "Separate decorative components, fictional mechanisms and working devices, assessing each against the relevant claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which steam, clockwork or other mechanisms are decorative, functional within the fiction or operational in a physical object?", "kind": "definition", "id": "technological-role-and-logic-q01" }, { "text": "What rules does the expression establish for power, control and mechanical limits, and where does it leave them unspecified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "technological-role-and-logic-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "infrastructure-and-consequences", "name": "Infrastructure and consequences", "description": "Connects 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"power-and-labour", "name": "Power and labour", "description": "Examines who builds, operates, owns and benefits from imagined technologies.", "findings": [ { "id": "distribution-of-industrial-agency", "name": "Distribution of industrial agency", "description": "Record represented relationships among invention, ownership, labour and authority without treating absent themes as explicit positions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who controls the imagined technology, who maintains it and who bears its costs?", "kind": "definition", "id": "distribution-of-industrial-agency-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports a reading concerning class, empire or technological progress, rather than that reading being an unsupported inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "distribution-of-industrial-agency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reception-and-contestation", "name": "Reception and contestation", "description": "Keeps creator intent, audience interpretation and community classification distinguishable.", 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a steampunk 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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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 steampunk 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 steampunk from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk 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 steampunk between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a steampunk 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk 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 steampunk contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 steampunk is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a steampunk, 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 steampunk, 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 steampunk 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 } } } }