{ "model": { "rank": 3112, "code": "thing-q234262", "model_id": "vr.tr.surah", "name": "surah", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a surah of the Qur'an, assess the evidence and completeness of its representation, and select appropriate retrieval, comparison, citation or presentation actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q234262/", "tier": 2, "score": 91, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Al-Musabbihat", "Meccan surah", "Medinan surah", "Secondary Suras", "Four Quls" ], "aliasCount": 5, "merged": 5, "knownIn": 91, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q234262", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234262", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:50:00Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.04200892, "turns": 2, "seconds": 113.7, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 78.8, "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: 01a07c57-3bad-7d62-86ab-18727025c988\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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prophetic instruction rather than as later editorial chapters.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity of a surah as a Qur'anic chapter and the evidence-qualified relationships connecting its names, boundaries, verse references, textual representations and interpretive descriptions.", "in_scope": [ "Surah identity, canonical position and attested naming variants", "Chapter boundaries, verse segmentation and reference conventions", "Relationships to Arabic textual witnesses, readings, translations and recitations", "Attributed descriptions of internal discourse and revelation context", "Representation completeness and conditions for reliable citation and presentation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The Qur'an as a complete work and the organisation of an entire mushaf", "Individual ayat as independently modelled textual units", "Manuscript objects, printed editions, digital files and recordings as artefacts", "Translation works, tafsir works and their authorship or publication histories", "Prayer performances, recitation events and religious rulings as independent subjects" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is identified as a chapter of the Qur'an, rather than any passage concerning a religious theme.", "A surah has a chapter identity; an ayah or an arbitrary verse range identifies a smaller passage rather than another surah.", "A juz' or other reading division is distinguished by its own partition scheme and is not treated as a surah merely because it overlaps one.", "An Arabic text, translation or recording represents a surah; its language, file identity or performer does not establish a new surah identity.", "Alternative names must be resolved against chapter identity before they are treated as separate registered things." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Canonical chapter position", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Ordinal position in an explicitly identified Qur'anic ordering", "why_it_matters": "Supports identity resolution and citation without confusing canonical position with proposed revelation chronology." }, { "name": "Attested names", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Arabic names, transliterations and translated labels linked to attestations", "why_it_matters": "Allows searches under different names while preventing unsupported alias merges." }, { "name": "Verse count", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of ayat under a named verse-counting convention", "why_it_matters": "Makes completeness checks meaningful without assuming that every representation uses identical numbering." }, { "name": "Opening basmala treatment", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Explicitly described presence, presentation and numbering treatment in a specified representation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents opening material from being silently added, omitted or assigned an incorrect verse reference." }, { "name": "Reading and textual basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to identified qira'a, riwaya, textual witness or edition where established", "why_it_matters": "Keeps differences between representations attributable and prevents unsupported claims of textual error." }, { "name": "Representation coverage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Complete under stated convention | excerpt | missing spans | not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the available material can support whole-surah presentation or analysis." }, { "name": "Revelation-context attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attributed classification or account, with disputed and unknown values allowed", "why_it_matters": "Permits contextual description without presenting a contested historical attribution as settled identity." }, { "name": "Reference alignment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Verified for declared representations | partial | conflicting | unverified", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether the agent can reliably connect Arabic passages, translations and recitation segments." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a surah name, transliteration or chapter reference to its registered identity.", "Retrieve the whole surah or a verse span using a declared textual and numbering basis.", "Compare representations while preserving differences in readings, segmentation and translation.", "Check coverage and generate citations that identify the relevant representation.", "Present attributed thematic or revelation-context descriptions with their uncertainties.", "Link Arabic passages to translations or recitation segments when alignment evidence is sufficient." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-surah", "title": "Surah", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surah", "what_it_supports": "Canonical count of 114; length extremes; Meccan/Medinan rule; basmalah exception at al-Tawbah; liturgical use in ṣalāt; chronological vs muṣḥaf order; alternative titles; authority-control identifiers.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q234262", "title": "surah (Q234262)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234262", "what_it_supports": "Class identifiers (Wikidata, GND, Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage, Freebase) and the definition of a surah as a Qur'anic chapter composed of āyāt.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-list-of-chapters", "title": "List of chapters in the Quran", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chapters_in_the_Quran", "what_it_supports": "Kufic/Kufan verse enumeration as the common 6,236-ayah count; 29 muqaṭṭaʿāt openings; Egyptian Standard and Nöldeke chronological columns; per-surah numbering 1-114.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "kitaab-academy-divisions", "title": "The Divisions of the Quran: Ayah, Surah, Juz, Hizb, Manzil, Ruku, and Sajdah Explained", "url": "https://www.kitaab.academy/the-divisions-of-the-quran/", "what_it_supports": "Surah as a tawqīfī chapter versus later tawfīqī recitation divisions; etymology as a bounded enclosure; length range 3-286 āyāt.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "miah-structure", "title": "The Structure & Division of a Surah (Chapter)", "url": "https://miahfoundation.com/exhibitions/the-art-of-quran-manuscripts/sections/a0fa0a7b-259d-4f24-a62a-08767d69ab26", "what_it_supports": "114 suwar; verse-total variation when the basmalah is counted; roughly descending-length arrangement; Makkan vs Madinan thematic profiles.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "chapter-identity", "name": "Chapter identity", "description": "Establishes which Qur'anic chapter is being represented and how its labels resolve.", "rationale": "Surah names and transliterations can vary, while the chapter must retain a single registry identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "canonical-location", "name": "Canonical location", "description": "Locates the chapter within the Qur'an without substituting a proposed historical sequence.", "findings": [ { "id": "chapter-position", "name": "Chapter position", "description": "Records the chapter's position in a specified ordering and the evidence supporting its identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which canonical chapter position identifies this surah, and which reference establishes it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "chapter-position-q01" }, { "text": "Does any supplied number instead describe revelation chronology or another ordering?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "chapter-position-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "names-and-aliases", "name": "Names and aliases", "description": "Separates attested chapter names from transliterations, translations and informal labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-resolution", "name": "Name resolution", "description": "Connects each usable name to the chapter identity with its language and attestation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Arabic names and naming variants are attested for this chapter?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "name-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which transliterations or translated labels can be resolved unambiguously to this surah?", "kind": "definition", "id": "name-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "chapter-boundaries-and-references", "name": "Chapter boundaries and references", "description": "Defines the extent of the surah and the conventions needed to address its passages.", "rationale": "Verse counts and opening-formula treatment must be explicit for reliable retrieval and completeness checks.", "layers": [ { "id": "opening-and-closing", "name": "Opening and closing", "description": "Identifies the chapter's textual limits separately from surrounding headings and presentation material.", "findings": [ { "id": "boundary-treatment", "name": "Boundary treatment", "description": "Records how the selected representation handles the opening basmala and the end of the chapter.", "questions": [ { "text": "How is the opening basmala, where present, displayed and numbered in this representation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "boundary-treatment-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes the final textual span, and which adjacent headings or annotations are outside the surah?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "boundary-treatment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "ayah-addressing", "name": "Ayah addressing", "description": "Makes verse references interpretable within a declared counting convention.", "findings": [ { "id": "verse-segmentation", "name": "Verse segmentation", "description": "Records the count and segmentation basis required to locate and compare ayat.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many ayat does this representation identify, and under which counting convention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "verse-segmentation-q01" }, { "text": "What verified mapping is needed before a verse reference can be transferred to another representation?", "kind": "action", "id": "verse-segmentation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "textual-and-mediated-representations", "name": "Textual and mediated representations", "description": "Connects the surah to particular Arabic texts, readings, translations and recitations.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish chapter identity from the textual or mediated form through which it accesses the chapter.", "layers": [ { "id": "arabic-textual-basis", "name": "Arabic textual basis", "description": "Identifies the evidence and conventions behind an available Arabic representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "reading-and-witness", "name": "Reading and witness", "description": "Records established reading affiliations and source artefacts without inferring them solely from a surah name.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which edition or witness supplies this Arabic text, and what reading or transmission does it explicitly identify?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reading-and-witness-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed differences are documented as reading, orthographic or editorial differences, and which remain unexplained?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reading-and-witness-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "translation-and-recitation-links", "name": "Translation and recitation links", "description": "Relates mediated expressions to the passages they represent.", "findings": [ { "id": "representation-alignment", "name": "Representation alignment", "description": "Records the basis and limits of links from Arabic passages to translated text or recitation segments.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which translator or reciter and source artefact are responsible for each linked representation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "representation-alignment-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports each verse-to-translation or verse-to-audio alignment, including merged or repeated spans?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "representation-alignment-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "discourse-and-revelation-context", "name": "Discourse and revelation context", "description": "Records attributed accounts of the surah's internal organisation and historical setting.", "rationale": "Thematic divisions and revelation accounts can guide interpretation but require attribution and may disagree.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-discourse", "name": "Internal discourse", "description": "Relates proposed sections, themes and shifts of address to identifiable verse spans.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-sectioning", "name": "Attributed sectioning", "description": "Records interpretive divisions without replacing the surah's chapter and ayah boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which verse spans are described as discourse sections, and who proposes those divisions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-sectioning-q01" }, { "text": "Which proposed divisions depend on interpretation rather than explicit chapter or verse boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-sectioning-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "revelation-attributions", "name": "Revelation attributions", "description": "Separates whole-chapter classifications from accounts applying to particular passages.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-and-chronology", "name": "Context and chronology", "description": "Preserves the source, scope and disagreement of revelation classifications and occasion reports.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources classify the surah as Meccan or Medinan, and do they identify exceptions or disagreement?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "context-and-chronology-q01" }, { "text": "Does each reported occasion or chronological claim concern the whole surah or only specified ayat?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "context-and-chronology-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "coverage-and-agent-use", "name": "Coverage and agent use", "description": "Determines whether available representations support the requested surah-level operation.", "rationale": "Incomplete text, uncertain references and unlabelled transformations can make otherwise plausible outputs misleading.", "layers": [ { "id": "surah-coverage", "name": "Surah coverage", "description": "Assesses whether the available material covers the identified chapter under its stated conventions.", "findings": [ { "id": "coverage-assessment", "name": "Coverage assessment", "description": "Records missing, duplicated or unresolved passage spans and the basis of completeness claims.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are all expected verse spans present exactly as required by the declared representation and counting convention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "coverage-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "Which missing, duplicated or unresolved spans prevent whole-surah retrieval or analysis?", "kind": "action", "id": "coverage-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "citation-and-presentation", "name": "Citation and presentation", "description": "Sets evidence-based conditions for quoting, comparing and displaying the surah.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-readiness", "name": "Operation readiness", "description": "Connects the intended action to the reference precision, attribution and use conditions it requires.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which chapter and verse references, textual basis and translator or reciter credits must accompany this output?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-readiness-q01" }, { "text": "What source-specific reuse conditions or explicitly requested presentation conventions apply to the selected text, translation or recording?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-readiness-q02" }, { "text": "Can the requested comparison or presentation preserve the distinction between Arabic text, translation, commentary and agent-generated paraphrase?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-readiness-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Meccan (Makki) surahs, dated before the Hijrah", "Medinan (Madani) surahs, dated after the Hijrah", "Mixed surahs whose opening belongs to one period but which contain verses of the other", "Muqaṭṭaʿāt surahs that open with disconnected letters (29 of 114)", "Al-Musabbiḥāt, surahs that open with divine glorification", "The Four Quls, the short liturgical cluster Q 109 and Q 112-114", "Long legislative surahs of the opening third, especially Q 2-9", "Short, often oath-framed surahs of the last third (Q 29-114)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q234262", "note": "Item for the class 'surah' (a Qur'anic chapter); each of the 114 individual surahs has its own item." }, { "scheme": "Canonical muṣḥaf number", "value_or_pattern": "1-114", "note": "Uthmanic order used in print and citation (al-Fātiḥah = 1, al-Nās = 114)." }, { "scheme": "Qur'anic citation", "value_or_pattern": "Q n:m or n:m", "note": "Chapter number then verse number, e.g. 2:255 or Q 5:67." }, { "scheme": "GND", "value_or_pattern": "4420668-9", "note": "Subject heading Sure / Sura ." }, { "scheme": "Dictionary of Qur'anic Usage ID", "value_or_pattern": "SIM-000871", "note": "Brill lemma for the Arabic root s-w-r / sūra." }, { "scheme": "Freebase", "value_or_pattern": "/m/026b6x", "note": "Legacy mid for the class." }, { "scheme": "İslâm Ansiklopedisi", "value_or_pattern": "sure", "note": "TDV entry slug for the term." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Uthmanic recension (third caliph ʿUthmān): the canonical 114-surah sequence of the Arabic muṣḥaf.", "Cairo / King Fuʾād edition of 1924, issued with al-Azhar: the modern print standard for rasm, surah numbering, and the Egyptian Standard chronological column.", "Kufan verse-enumeration school, used in the widely distributed Madinah muṣḥaf: the common 6,236-ayah count against which printed verse numbers are set.", "al-Suyūṭī, al-Itqān fī ʿulūm al-Qurʾān: classical statement that the identity and sequence of the 114 surahs (and the order of āyāt within them) are tawqīfī.", "Later Iraqi letter-count partitions into 30 ajzāʾ / 60 aḥzāb (associated with al-Ḥajjāj): scholarly recitation aids, not a second chapter system." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Recited in the standing portions of ṣalāt: al-Fātiḥah in every rakʿah, plus all or part of another surah.", "Memorized as named units in ḥifẓ curricula and printed as headed chapters in a muṣḥaf, usually with Arabic name, verse count, and Makki/Madani label.", "Cited in tafsīr, law, sermons, and digital Qur'an apps by surah number or name plus verse number.", "Grouped for extra-canonical recitation practice (Four Quls, Yā Sīn, al-Kahf, al-Mulk) even though those groupings are not the canonical chapter system." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Canonical chapter count", "typical_range": "114 (fixed)", "unit": "surah" }, { "quantity": "Verses per surah", "typical_range": "3 (al-Kawthar) to 286 (al-Baqarah)", "unit": "ayah" }, { "quantity": "Corpus verse total (Kufan count)", "typical_range": "6236", "unit": "ayah" }, { "quantity": "Meccan surahs (traditional majority count)", "typical_range": "about 86 of 114", "unit": "surah" }, { "quantity": "Medinan surahs (traditional majority count)", "typical_range": "about 28 of 114", "unit": "surah" }, { "quantity": "Surahs opening with muqaṭṭaʿāt", "typical_range": "29 of 114", "unit": "surah" }, { "quantity": "Surahs preceded by the basmalah", "typical_range": "113 of 114 (absent before al-Tawbah)", "unit": "surah" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Citing a verse by one regional enumeration against another, so that n:m does not land on the same sentence.", "Treating muṣḥaf order as the order of revelation, which neither traditional nor academic chronologies claim.", "Counting or omitting the basmalah as a verse (it is Q 1:1, but is not counted as a verse at the head of the other 112 surahs that carry it).", "Labelling a mixed surah simply Meccan or Medinan when only the opening, not every verse, decides the class.", "Reading a surah as if it were a single linear book-chapter argument, which many surahs are not.", "Liturgical error: omitting al-Fātiḥah, or substituting an unintended surah, in ṣalāt." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Latin-script names: surah / sūra / sura; German Sure; Spanish sura; Turkish sure.", "One numbered surah may carry several traditional titles (e.g. al-Masad also al-Lahab; Fuṣṣilat also Ḥā Mīm Sajda).", "Makki/Madani tallies: a common 86/28 split versus lists that treat only about 20 Medinan and 82 Meccan as agreed, with a disputed remainder.", "Chronological numbering used in tables differs (Egyptian Standard vs Nöldeke, among others).", "Printed verse numbers follow different historical enumeration schools even when the Arabic rasm is the same." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "āyah (verse)", "difference": "An āyah is the smallest canonical reference unit inside a surah; a surah is the closed chapter that contains a run of āyāt." }, { "name": "juzʾ", "difference": "A juzʾ is one of 30 later recitation portions sized by letter count; it routinely cuts across surah boundaries and is not a chapter." }, { "name": "ḥizb / rubʿ", "difference": "Halves and quarters of a juzʾ, likewise later recitation marks, not named Qur'anic chapters." }, { "name": "rukūʿ", "difference": "A later pause-section used in prayer and some prints (~540-558); it is not the surah boundary." }, { "name": "manzil", "difference": "A seven-part weekly recitation scheme; it groups several surahs rather than naming one." }, { "name": "Biblical chapter", "difference": "Bible chapter numbers are later editorial overlays; a surah's identity and sequence are treated as tawqīfī and do not track a single running argument." }, { "name": "parashah", "difference": "A Masoretic weekly Torah lection, not a closed revealed chapter of the Qur'an." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of surah this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] 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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 surah, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify a surah of the Qur'an, assess the evidence and completeness of its representation, and select appropriate retrieval, comparison, citation or presentation actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "information", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "read and interpreted", "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Al-Musabbihat, Meccan surah, Medinan surah, Secondary Suras, Four Quls.", "5 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 91 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 surah, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "read it and act on what it says", "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "What is seen is a copy or a performance, not the work. Recognising the work means recognising the content through whatever is carrying it." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "Al-Musabbihat", "Meccan surah", "Medinan surah", "Secondary Suras", "Four Quls" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 91 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 5 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 surah from another, and a surah 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 surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah 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 surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah 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 surah between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a surah 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 surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah 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 surah contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah 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 surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 surah is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a surah, 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 surah, 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 surah 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 } } } }