{ "model": { "rank": 5332, "code": "thing-q28914", "model_id": "vr.tr.patron-saint", "name": "patron saint", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a patron saint relationship, assess its documented standing within a religious tradition, and represent or use it without inventing religious authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q28914/", "tier": 2, "score": 68, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "Patrons of firefighters", "Vineyard patron", "regional patron saint" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 68, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q28914", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28914", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:09:13Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.3, "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: 01a08836-e9ef-76e2-bb1c-92c5a6d4e94e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: patron saint\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 005: 1001 re", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 58.2, "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: 01a08836-e9df-79d3-bd18-436d763b1812\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: patron saint\nRegistry id: vr.tr.patron-saint\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q28914", "registryId": "vr.tr.patron-saint", "name": "patron saint", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q28914/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.patron-saint", "name": "patron saint", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify a patron saint relationship, assess its documented standing within a religious tradition, and represent or use it without inventing religious authority.", "definition": "A patron saint is a saint whom a Christian community venerates as a particular intercessor and protector for a person, place, institution, occupation, activity or need.", "scope_statement": "This model owns patron saint as a religious patronage role linking a person regarded as a saint to a specified community, place, institution, activity, cause, or person within a particular tradition and period.", "in_scope": [ "The saint's identity and the tradition within which that identity is recognized", "The beneficiary or subject of the patronage and its precise boundaries", "The claimed basis, evidence, and authority for the patronage", "The patronage's historical development and current standing", "Devotional and commemorative practices specifically associated with the patronage" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The saint's complete biography and general account of sainthood", "General doctrine concerning intercession, miracles, and salvation", "The full organizational model of a church, shrine, or religious community", "Secular sponsorship, financial patronage, and charitable benefaction", "Employment classifications, occupational licensing, and job descriptions", "Other spiritual protector roles unless the relevant tradition identifies them as patron saint relationships" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A saint must be linked to an identifiable patronage subject; recognition as a saint alone does not establish patronage.", "The relationship must be attributed to a religious tradition or community, rather than inferred solely from a name, image, or shared occupation.", "A church dedication, namesake relationship, or local devotion requires separate evidence before being treated as patronage.", "Patronage describes a religious role attributed to a saint, rather than employment or a living person's financial sponsorship.", "Claims about protection or intercession must remain attributed religious beliefs, distinct from observations of practical outcomes." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Saint identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified saint record, with tradition-specific names and disambiguation", "why_it_matters": "Prevents namesakes, title variants, and different saints from being merged." }, { "name": "Religious context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Tradition, church, jurisdiction, or community making or recognizing the patronage claim", "why_it_matters": "Recognition in one context must not be presented as universal." }, { "name": "Patronage subject", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified person, community, place, institution, occupation, activity, or cause", "why_it_matters": "States precisely whose or what patron the saint is." }, { "name": "Subject category", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Personal; communal; geographical; institutional; occupational; activity-related; cause-related; other documented category", "why_it_matters": "Guides the questions needed to establish the patronage's boundaries." }, { "name": "Recognition basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented designation; documented customary devotion; personal selection; reported association; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes different grounds for patronage without treating them as equivalent." }, { "name": "Documented standing", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Currently attested; historically attested only; contested; documented as superseded or withdrawn; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Supports accurate present-tense claims while preserving historical relationships." }, { "name": "Patronage qualification", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Principal; secondary; shared; another source-attested title; unspecified", "why_it_matters": "Preserves distinctions made by sources without inventing rank or exclusivity." }, { "name": "Effective period", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Source-supported dates or approximate periods, with precision and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates the date of a source from the period during which the relationship applied." }, { "name": "Supporting evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documents, community records, liturgical materials, or scholarly accounts linked to individual claims", "why_it_matters": "Allows an agent to explain what supports each attribution and where uncertainty remains." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a patron saint query against a specified beneficiary, tradition, location, and period.", "Compare competing patronage claims while preserving their distinct sources and religious contexts.", "Explain whether a relationship rests on designation, customary devotion, personal selection, or an unresolved report.", "Produce an attributed description of the patronage and its associated observances.", "Flag unsupported extensions from a local patronage to a broader population or activity.", "Identify the relevant community or authority to consult before proposing changes to an official patronage description." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saint-and-patronage-identity", "name": "Saint and patronage identity", "description": "Establishes who is regarded as the saint and what makes the recorded relationship patronage.", "rationale": "A saint, a namesake, and a patron saint relationship are different things and require distinct evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "saint-identification", "name": "Saint identification", "description": "Resolves the saint's identity within the relevant religious context.", "findings": [ { "id": "tradition-specific-identity", "name": "Tradition-specific identity", "description": "Record the identity meant by the patronage claim, retaining naming variants and uncertainty about identification or recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which saint is named, and what distinguishes this figure from saints with similar names or titles?", "kind": "definition", "id": "tradition-specific-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which tradition or community regards this figure as a saint, and which source establishes that context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "tradition-specific-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patronage-role-boundary", "name": "Patronage role boundary", "description": "Separates patronage from adjacent religious and naming relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-patronage-attribution", "name": "Explicit patronage attribution", "description": "Establish whether evidence identifies patronage rather than merely dedication, veneration, commemoration, or a namesake.", "questions": [ { "text": "What wording identifies the saint as patron, and what does that wording mean in this community?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-patronage-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish patronage independently of a church dedication, image, relic, or shared name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "explicit-patronage-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "patronage-subject-and-reach", "name": "Patronage subject and reach", "description": "Defines the beneficiary and the geographical, institutional, or personal reach of the relationship.", "rationale": "A patronage claim becomes misleading if an agent silently expands whom or what it covers.", "layers": [ { "id": "beneficiary-identification", "name": "Beneficiary identification", "description": "Identifies the specific subject to which patronage is attributed.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-patronage-subject", "name": "Bounded patronage subject", "description": "Represent the beneficiary at the level supported by evidence, distinguishing a specific group from a broader class.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the patronage attached to a named place, institution, community, person, occupation, activity, or cause?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-patronage-subject-q01" }, { "text": "Does the claim concern the whole subject category or only a particular locality, organization, or subgroup?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-patronage-subject-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shared-and-qualified-patronage", "name": "Shared and qualified patronage", "description": "Preserves overlapping relationships and any source-supported distinctions between patrons.", "findings": [ { "id": "nonexclusive-and-ranked-relationships", "name": "Nonexclusive and ranked relationships", "description": "Record other patrons and qualifying titles without assuming that patronage must be exclusive or ranked.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are other saints identified as patrons of the same subject in the same religious context and period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nonexclusive-and-ranked-relationships-q01" }, { "text": "Which source, if any, distinguishes a principal patron, secondary patron, or shared patronage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "nonexclusive-and-ranked-relationships-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-evidence-and-history", "name": "Recognition, evidence, and history", "description": "Tracks how the patronage is established, documented, maintained, or disputed.", "rationale": "Formal designation, local custom, and repeated unsourced assertions provide different grounds for describing a patronage.", "layers": [ { "id": "basis-and-authority", "name": "Basis and authority", "description": "Records the mechanism and evidence through which the relationship is asserted.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-ground", "name": "Recognition ground", "description": "Identify the source and scope of recognition without imposing one tradition's authorization process on another.", "questions": [ { "text": "What document, customary practice, or personal selection supports this particular patronage relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-ground-q01" }, { "text": "Who made or recognizes the designation, and what authority or community standing do they have for this subject?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-ground-q02" }, { "text": "What additional evidence is needed before an agent may describe the patronage as official in this context?", "kind": "action", "id": "recognition-ground-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "temporal-standing-and-disagreement", "name": "Temporal standing and disagreement", "description": "Distinguishes historical attestation, current recognition, and unresolved conflict.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-and-contested-attribution", "name": "Dated and contested attribution", "description": "Maintain a dated account of the relationship, separating its reported origin from surviving evidence and later changes.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the earliest attestation and any claimed establishment date, and how securely is each supported?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-and-contested-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports current recognition, a change of standing, or disagreement between communities or sources?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-and-contested-attribution-q02" }, { "text": "Should an agent present this claim as current, historical, disputed, or unresolved given the available evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "dated-and-contested-attribution-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "devotion-observance-and-representation", "name": "Devotion, observance, and representation", "description": "Connects patronage to attributed religious meaning, documented practices, and appropriate public descriptions.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish the meaning and practice of patronage from proof of supernatural effects or authority to prescribe observance.", "layers": [ { "id": "patronage-meaning", "name": "Patronage meaning", "description": "Records why the saint is associated with the subject and how participants understand the relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-rationale-and-intercession", "name": "Attributed rationale and intercession", "description": "Capture explanations of patronage and beliefs about protection or intercession as attributed accounts, preserving distinctions between historical evidence and devotional narrative.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the relevant sources or community explain this saint's association with the patronage subject?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-rationale-and-intercession-q01" }, { "text": "Which parts of that explanation are documented history, devotional narrative, or explicitly stated religious belief?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-rationale-and-intercession-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "patronage-specific-observance", "name": "Patronage-specific observance", "description": "Identifies practices and representations tied specifically to this patronage.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-practice-and-public-description", "name": "Local practice and public description", "description": "Record documented celebrations, invocations, imagery, and local conventions without assuming that every observance of the saint concerns this patronage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which prayers, celebrations, dates, images, or customs are specifically associated with this patronage, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "local-practice-and-public-description-q01" }, { "text": "How do these practices differ from general commemoration of the saint or observance in another locality or calendar?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "local-practice-and-public-description-q02" }, { "text": "What community guidance and attribution should an agent use when preparing a patronage description or observance resource?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-practice-and-public-description-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This describes a religious relational role, not an occupation, qualification or employment status.", "Specific patronage claims require checking their denomination, locality and basis in formal designation or customary devotion.", "No sources were consulted; historical origins and formal rules for establishing patronage need research." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of patron saint 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": [ "Personal patron saint", "Patron saint of a place", "Patron saint of an institution or community", "Patron saint of an occupation", "Patron saint associated with a particular need or affliction" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of patron saint 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": [ "Invocation in prayers requesting a saint's intercession", "Naming churches, schools, religious communities and other institutions", "Celebration of patronal feasts and local festivals", "Expression of shared identity among towns, nations, professions and associations", "Selection of a personal patron in connection with baptism or confirmation in some traditions" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of patron saint 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": [ "Treating a customary or popular patronage as an officially designated one", "Confusing saints who share a name", "Presenting legendary explanations of patronage as established history", "Assuming that recognition of a saint or patronage is shared across Christian traditions", "Describing attributed supernatural protection as an empirically established effect" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of patron saint 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": [ "Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communities both recognize patron saints, but their calendars, recognized saints and patronage practices differ.", "Anglican communities vary in their observance of patron saints; many Protestant traditions reject invocation of saints.", "Local patronages and celebrations can differ even within the same denomination and country." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of patron saint 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": "saint", "difference": "Sainthood concerns recognition of holiness; patronage is a particular relationship between a saint and those or that for which the saint is invoked." }, { "name": "guardian angel", "difference": "A guardian angel is an angel understood to guard a person or community; a patron saint ordinarily refers to a human saint, although angels can also hold patronages." }, { "name": "patron", "difference": "A secular patron provides support or sponsorship; a patron saint's support is understood through religious intercession and protection." }, { "name": "church dedication", "difference": "A dedication identifies the sacred title or figure to which a church is dedicated; it does not by itself establish every broader patronage claimed for that figure." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of patron saint this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which religious traditions and community usages should the registry's undefined entry cover, and how should their differing meanings of patronage be represented?", "What evidence and terminology distinguish formal designation from customary patronage in each included tradition and historical period?", "Should individually chosen patron saints and patrons attributed to groups of saints fall within this entry, and how should those cases be bounded?", "How should the model represent patronage subjects that have changed names, borders, institutional identity, or occupational meaning?", "What evidence is sufficient to describe an old patronage as currently recognized when recent documentation is absent?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 14, "questions": 25 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "occupation or role", "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 patron saint, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to identify a patron saint relationship, assess its documented standing within a religious tradition, and represent or use it without inventing religious authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "social", "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: Patrons of firefighters, Vineyard patron, regional patron saint.", "3 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 patron saint, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people", "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": [ "Not recognisable by appearance, and guessing from dress or setting is how an agent gets this wrong. Recognised by qualification, licence or engagement." ], "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": [ "Patrons of firefighters", "Vineyard patron", "regional patron saint" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 68 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 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 patron saint from another, and a patron saint 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint 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 patron saint is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint 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 patron saint between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a patron saint 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a patron saint.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a patron saint and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a patron saint, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a patron saint, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a patron saint, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a patron saint is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a patron saint and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a patron saint sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a patron saint, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a patron saint, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a patron saint is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as patron saint.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does patron saint require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses patron saint, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What patron saint actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define patron saint, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as patron saint, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a patron saint 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 patron saint and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint 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 patron saint is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a patron saint, 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 patron saint, 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 patron saint is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }